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Core Topics => Health Issues and Medical => Topic started by: lawyerup on September 29, 2015, 03:13:28 AM
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was on my way to my poker game yesterday morning and some old fuckn bitch pulled out into my lane at last second. Nailed her doing 40 spun her right around and our jeep ended up down in a graveyard (creepy?) The airbag went off and broke a couple of my fingers and tore off the top layer of skin on my right hand its painful as hell i'll try to post a picture.
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Holy fucking shit.
Will you have full use of your hand after your recovery?
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Guess it's time to lawyerup eh?
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Ouch man. Looks painful. Here's hoping that you get better quick and as painlessly as possible.
Did the cops get involved? Is the vehicle a write off or not too bad?
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Guess it's time to lawyerup eh?
ZINGGG
exactly what i was going to post :P
Glad you're ok though, i mean considering
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Sheesh that looks painful. Glad it wasn't worse though. So the airbag did all that?
Yes totally creepy that you ended up in a graveyard, but happy you won't be taking
up residency there.
How was the old lady? Was she injured?
@Chops you are a hoot!
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Guess it's time to lawyerup eh?
Hey Lawyerup, is your name a reference to Breaking Bad?
I hope you heal quickly - don't pick any scabs, they're nature's bandaids!
How exactly did you get injured? What in your car caused this?
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Fuck man.
Hope you recovery quickly and with minimal pain.
Between the hours of 10am and 3pm, I keep vigilant for the "Silver Heads" (old folks) when driving.
It seems those hours (in between rush hour) is when they feel safe enough to venture out in their cars.
I hate to be an Agecist, but the majority of accidents I've been in have been due to the poor judgement, eyesight and driving of our geriatric citizens.
I truly worry that some idiot will cause an accident that involves me; and I'll be forced to have a drug test. That might reveal my poppy seed bagel addiction. Would be a tough legal battle to win.
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Fuck man.
Hope you recovery quickly and with minimal pain.
Between the hours of 10am and 3pm, I keep vigilant for the "Silver Heads" (old folks) when driving.
It seems those hours (in between rush hour) is when they feel safe enough to venture out in their cars.
I hate to be an Agecist, but the majority of accidents I've been in have been due to the poor judgement, eyesight and driving of our geriatric citizens.
I truly worry that some idiot will cause an accident that involves me; and I'll be forced to have a drug test. That might reveal my poppy seed bagel addiction. Would be a tough legal battle to win.
Morfy my last appointment showed morphine (funny) in my UA...doc asked if I'd been eating a lot of bagels and poppy foods. No longer a myth so you will be fine ;)
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LU glad to hear from you buddy! Feel better
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Well..... At least your bones stayed inside of you.
I remained conscious for nearly an hour and a half with a femur looking back at me.
Here's to having some action..... I refused to pay the extra six bucks for uninsured motorist. So I got nothing out of it but a few pity fucks and a dope habit twenty times worse than the one I already had.
I'm a glass half full kinda guy....
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my biggest road fear is testing hot from the smoke of a distant fire and getting caught up in someone else's negligent driving accident.
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Oh man, so glad you weren't hurt worse, but yikes: (
I hear you about the senior crowd--it's scary how unaware they can be. Hope you feel better fast!
@Snoop. You story made me cringe. I'd be yelling my head off in between bouts of puking. You are a true badass.
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was on my way to my poker game yesterday morning and some old fuckn bitch pulled out into my lane at last second. Nailed her doing 40 spun her right around and our jeep ended up down in a graveyard (creepy?) The airbag went off and broke a couple of my fingers and tore off the top layer of skin on my right hand its painful as hell i'll try to post a picture.
(https://forum.drugs-and-users.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1404.0;attach=542;image)
get well soon, bro' - that hand looks like it hurts real bad. i'm glad that it's not any worse ... vehicular misadventure is a very common path to hospitalisation ... and even worse ... so you're kind of lucky, too.
go with it.
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Guess it's time to lawyerup eh?
i dont have full use as is but yes both hands should heal. i'm hoping fora few bucks out of this the guy my dad hit admits fault. the dmg came from the airbag ripping top layer of hand off.
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Fuck man.
Hope you recovery quickly and with minimal pain.
Between the hours of 10am and 3pm, I keep vigilant for the "Silver Heads" (old folks) when driving.
It seems those hours (in between rush hour) is when they feel safe enough to venture out in their cars.
I hate to be an Agecist, but the majority of accidents I've been in have been due to the poor judgement, eyesight and driving of our geriatric citizens.
I truly worry that some idiot will cause an accident that involves me; and I'll be forced to have a drug test. That might reveal my poppy seed bagel addiction. Would be a tough legal battle to win.
Morfy my last appointment showed morphine (funny) in my UA...doc asked if I'd been eating a lot of bagels and poppy foods. No longer a myth so you will be fine ;)
Yes, to a point they'll pass it off as incidental, if they were to check for the LEVELS (not just the presence), they will figure something odd is going on.
Good post though!
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Ouch man. Looks painful. Here's hoping that you get better quick and as painlessly as possible.
Did the cops get involved? Is the vehicle a write off or not too bad?
cops came and ambulance and vehicles totalled.
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I'll say it again - you just missed possible death.
drugs are safer than cars.
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I'll say it again - you just missed possible death.
drugs are safer than cars.
i've def got some ptsd i've had the shakes all day.
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I can't imagine how the OP felt in the midst of the accident. IIRC, he lost his brother to a fatal collision somewhat recently.
I am sorry you had to endure both situations. It would probably give plenty of people a bit of PTSD, so I definitely understand that. Take care of yourself.
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The symptoms of PTSD can start immediately or after a delay of weeks or months, but usually within 6 months of the traumatic event, not the day of the event.
You are most likely just suffering from the shock, trauma, pain, and anxiety of the immediate aftereffects from the car wreck. I highly doubt you will have a true manifestation of PTSD from this event. It was likely scary and traumatic, but I doubt you will suffer from the lifelong, debilitating psychological condition because of it. I wouldn't be too worried about that. Focus on your physical recovery and I'm betting you'll get along allright.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/1999/0801/p524.html
However, if you do have PTSD related symptoms months down the road- that is a valuable piece of medical literature right there for these specific issues/events.
Don't think I'm trivializing what happened to you- It's seriously fucked up. I was hit by a drunk driver myself (in a jeep nonetheless- an old CJ) and rolled multiple times which gave me my back injuries/CP issues. I had short term anxiety and environmentally related flashbacks (ie night driving on that same stretch of service road) but it didn't cause the permanent psychiatric damage that my actual PTSD inducing events caused over a decade ago.
Some of us (vets in particular) just get a little sensitive when that word gets thrown around these days..
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was on my way to my poker game yesterday morning and some old fuckn bitch pulled out into my lane at last second. Nailed her doing 40 spun her right around and our jeep ended up down in a graveyard (creepy?) The airbag went off and broke a couple of my fingers and tore off the top layer of skin on my right hand its painful as hell i'll try to post a picture.
Now, thats mofo gambling. Am I right? sorry. Hope you ok and everything fine.
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Guess it's time to lawyerup eh?
i dont have full use as is but yes both hands should heal. i'm hoping fora few bucks out of this the guy my dad hit admits fault. the dmg came from the airbag ripping top layer of hand off.
Wow, an honest person. Good on that dude, at least as far as the honesty go's, not so much on the driving.
Hope you heal soon.
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Then air bags are dangerous
They are like a fuckin punch in the face
And the dust that goes every where
Sucks though
Get a lawyer for real
And how can you pay poker now
Ya got no hand.
Get better soon
Or get some good drugs
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updated pics, left hand is broken.
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HOLY SHIT BROTHER
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left hands broken too. i'm meeting with lawyer thursday.
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Good grief all that looks painful as shit...hope you're mending ok...sorry that happend to ya...
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oh man oh man! hope things are feeling better bro!
hope that lawyer has good news. i would definitely have some neck and back issues from an accident of that magnitude. that can be a life changing event. glad you lawyered up bro. good luck dude, hope the drugs are good and plentiful lol!! :o
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Jesus, lawyerup. I hope you heal quickly and make some money off this. Start documenting your injuries and what they keep you from doing, as well as any additional expenses (medical or otherwise, taxis, etc) now, and also your missed work/income.
Trauma and its after-affects are in undergoing a slow process of being reevaluated and recategorized in the therapy world, since the majority of people who present with PTSD like symptoms get that way from complex trauma (an ongoing extended traumatic situation or relationship, like being abused as a kid or watching a loved one die of cancer), rather than shock trauma (from a specific and singular violent life-threat event). So I dont think its useful to draw a hard line between what is and what isnt a severe traumatic reaction. The spectrum of PTSD symptoms is variable anyway, not everyone has it the same way.
The BEST thing you can do to mitigate long term, debilitating trauma response is to keep talking about your experience, your feelings, your recovery, etc. with someone who will just listen without trying to fix or judge or change you. Counseling or a group for trauma survivors would not be a bad idea (and could probably be reimbursed as part of your covered medical expenses in a lawsuit or settlement, although you prob already knew that.)
If there is no one like that you can talk to ANYWHERE near you, keep a diary and keep writing in it regularly as if you were talking to someone like that.
OH and anyone who has experienced serious trauma or has PTSD would be really advised to read "Waking the Tiger" by Peter Levine. Amazing book about the way trauma works in the body and the brain, the evolutionary purpose of our flight/flight/freeze system, and how the trauma cycle hijacks it, as well as how to get it back working properly again. He uses his studies of wild animals, who frequently experience life-threatening circumstances (being chased by a predator, etc) without being traumatized by them, as well as information on neuroplasticity, to use somatic (body, movement, sensation) tools to develop a way to re-process traumatic experiences and get them stored properly as memories of the past, rather than constantly triggered and relived.
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met with my lawyer today, says i have a slam dunk case. the only negative is that i either have to spend the money within a month or gift it to someone bc otherwise i lose my mainecare and im hospitalized frequently so thats not an option.
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I can't imagine how the OP felt in the midst of the accident. IIRC, he lost his brother to a fatal collision somewhat recently.
I am sorry you had to endure both situations. It would probably give plenty of people a bit of PTSD, so I definitely understand that. Take care of yourself.
ya for real, my mom was so upset she had to wait for my stepdad to get home to come out and pick me up.
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That looks awful bro. Is it healing well at this point? Is your hand usually shaped like that, or is it broken? A broken hand is awful.
I have smashed a few fingers and it was brutal. Everything you take for granted is suddenly painful and very difficult. It was a humbling experience.
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That looks awful bro. Is it healing well at this point? Is your hand usually shaped like that, or is it broken? A broken hand is awful.
I have smashed a few fingers and it was brutal. Everything you take for granted is suddenly painful and very difficult. It was a humbling experience.
my hands alrdy had some misshapen areas from my sma but the break did fuck my left hand up and right burn wil l scar badly.
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OMG that looks terrible, my heart is in my stomach seeing those pics. Wishing you quick and painless as possible healing. :(
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OMG that looks terrible, my heart is in my stomach seeing those pics. Wishing you quick and painless as possible healing. :(
was def painful as hell but it could have been so much worse, just glad i didnt wreck my beautiful face :p
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OMG that looks terrible, my heart is in my stomach seeing those pics. Wishing you quick and painless as possible healing. :(
was def painful as hell but it could have been so much worse, just glad i didnt wreck my beautiful face :p
Now THAT would have been tragic!
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This forum of " open-minded" people looks pathetic as fuck. Thats just my opinion. Lets crucify this chick because she made a mistake? WTF is up with that? Because she did what every other one of us does, we should stake her? What if this " victim" is on the edge and something like this pushes her over? I mean, its whatever but, shit like this makes me want to kill people instead of house them if some crazy apocalypse breaks out. It is what it is though.
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This forum of " open-minded" people looks pathetic as fuck. Thats just my opinion. Lets crucify this chick because she made a mistake? WTF is up with that? Because she did what every other one of us does, we should stake her? What if this " victim" is on the edge and something like this pushes her over? I mean, its whatever but, shit like this makes me want to kill people instead of house them if some crazy apocalypse breaks out. It is what it is though.
wtf ru talking about?
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This forum of " open-minded" people looks pathetic as fuck. Thats just my opinion. Lets crucify this chick because she made a mistake? WTF is up with that? Because she did what every other one of us does, we should stake her? What if this " victim" is on the edge and something like this pushes her over? I mean, its whatever but, shit like this makes me want to kill people instead of house them if some crazy apocalypse breaks out. It is what it is though.
mate, you're operating on a different plane ... you're a tad eccentric, pal !
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lawerup, those pics look shocking ... are you all right ?
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lawerup, those pics look shocking ... are you all right ?
ya man I'm all healed up, left a scar but I'll hopefully get a nice little settlement when my lawyer settles up with the at fault driver's insurance.
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lawerup, those pics look shocking ... are you all right ?
ya man I'm all healed up, left a scar but I'll hopefully get a nice little settlement when my lawyer settles up with the at fault driver's insurance.
a sliver lining in that old cloud -- good for you ! Woo-Hoo
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Don't take the first, or even second offer. These insurance companies usually go by a set rate based on body part, and how extensive the injury is.
I received 4x the amount of the first offer after this drunk idiot smashed into me and crushed two vertebrae. Good thing he had decent insurance, most down here just have PIP.
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Don't take the first, or even second offer. These insurance companies usually go by a set rate based on body part, and how extensive the injury is.
I received 4x the amount of the first offer after this drunk idiot smashed into me and crushed two vertebrae. Good thing he had decent insurance, most down here just have PIP.
can i ask what u got? i got 40k when i was 15 for an accident that fucked my knee up.
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After the crooked attorney took his 33.3% and all the medical bills I was left with just under 80k.
We took took the guy for the max his insurance carried. He would've lost miserably in the civil trial as he was convicted of dui w serious bodily injury.
Oh: Make sure you document EVERYTHING that has to do with your injuries. Lost work, inability to walk your dog, everything.
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After the crooked attorney took his 33.3% and all the medical bills I was left with just under 80k.
We took took the guy for the max his insurance carried. He would've lost miserably in the civil trial as he was convicted of dui w serious bodily injury.
Oh: Make sure you document EVERYTHING that has to do with your injuries. Lost work, inability to walk your dog, everything.
ya my lawyer takes a third too. but if i get nothing neither does he.