Re: Update

In Reply to: Re: Update posted by debbie on October 25, 2003 at 00:32:44:

: : : : I just got back from the Hand Surgeon and the diagnoses of RSD is definate. RSD is the result of the trama to the nerve. I was also told today that prolonging nerve entrapment could result in getting RSD. So anyone with VERY SEVERE PAIN, see a good doctor.

: : : : I have had 10 steroid blocks and he's added 5 more blocks with a different medication. The med is supposed to last longer. So we'll see. They start Nov. 4th and I will have one every week until the 5th block is done.

: : : : I got my impairment rating from the MMI(Maximum Medical Improvement). I was rated at 27% disability, which WC is going to fight with passion, because they don't like ratings 15% or over, and I was rated at 16% whole body. I have to find out what that means.

: : : : I am pretty sure that now I will have to go do another impairment rating by a WC doctor. I'm fine with that, they can only see whats happened to my hand and its condition.

: : : : Thought I would share with all of you. No sympathy needed here, just prayers. Melani

: : : Excuse me for addressing this, but only 27% disablitly??? Thats crazy!!!! I'm no doctor, but it seems to me that any idiot would know that your hand/arm is 100% disabled to work at much of anything...What does it take to get what you deserve to get? Does your whole arm have to fall off or what???? Honestly this is not fair!!!!
: : : It is not your fault the doctor cut your nerve, and its not your fault that you've had to fight for what you deserve, which led to becoming depressed... So who's damned fault is it, if not theirs???? There should be better laws for people who are hurt by doctors....Good luck with this Melani...
: : : Debbie
: : : Debbie

: : Thanks Debbie, Workers Comp considers 15% impairment to be like a cut off hand, lol. They hate anything over 14%. If their doctors see my rating of 27% as absolute, Workers Comp will have to pay me SIBS, which I'm still learning about that. I still haven't found a good website to check it out. SIBS stands for Supplemental Income Benefits. So to WC the 27%rating is going to give them a heart attack.

: : The doctor at fault knew what he was doing. He knew the nerve was cut from the first surgery and the open hand release only verified it. He did say he removed gobs of scar tissue when I asked him whats wrong with my hand and why is it not healing. Heheld me at bay for a year and a half and wanted me to come back and see him again this Oct. (but me seeing him again is when hell freezes over) but what he was doing, was giving me hope that the nerve would regenerate and I would be just fine. He lied to me, he let all the time go by because he knew that there is a 2 year limitation for malpractice in the state of Texas. What he didn't know is that I would of never sued him, but with his dishonesty, and all the time he made me wait, I have a diseased nerve now. I believe in God and miracles, so anyday a good thing could happen. Thanks Debbie for your concern. It did mean a lot. Melani

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: I wish I believed in miracles, & I do try, but it would take a miracle to make me believe in miracles..LOL Seems to me your lawyer would see how dishonest this doctor really was and be able to go after him no matter what texas law says... Laws can be overturned in some case, why not in yours!!! If nothing else I sure would write that doctor a letter telling him what he did was morally wrong, as well as cutting your nerve was unprofessional.. I just can't imagine WC being that one sided to not give you what you rightly deserve...Whats more important, a human being, or a dollar.. I guess the dollar wins out.
: Debbie

Talk about the dollar, I went to Eckerds Monday to pick up my medicine and Workers Comp had cleared my name out of their computer saying that any more meds would have to be paid for by cash. I paid it, called the lawyer, now everything is taken care of. I'm now back in the system. Workers Comp can be a nightmare. Melani