Needle Hell and Beyond

Ok, so we get to the ER, right, it is the middle of swine flu season, so all these people are sitting there coughing, hacking, wearing masks, and I'm thinkin "Great the wreck didnt kill me, so now the pig flu gets a shot at me".
They came and got me took me to Xray, sat me back in the middle of the pig flu epidemic, and there I sat for the next 2 hours, people watching, you would be amazed how entertaining an ER waiting room can be !
They finally put me in a room, nurse comes to Xray me again, I tell her already been done, she leaves, another hour passes, another nurse comes to xray me, "already been done" she leaves, another hour passes, by then I am getting really sore, there are bruises coming up all over the left side of my body, I have bruises comin up across my pelvis and chest, and right in the hairline of my head, so now I also have a headache, and guess what? another nurse to xray me ! By now I'm gettin ill with the whole process, and I tell B to go tell em I'm leaving, I'll go to my Dr tomorrow, a nurse comes in and says the Dr. will be here shortly, but we need to, and you guessed it, get you Xrayed ! Oh my dear God in heaven, and these people are supposed to make me feel better, SERIOUSLY, ARE U KIDDIN ME? THEY cant even figure out they have tried to xray me 5 times already, if attempts count I would set off a geiger counter and glow in the friggin dark by now!
Dr. shows, checks me out, says I am gonna be really sore for a while and that I need to go to my regular Dr.on Monday, so I'm like fine, now can I go, by now I hurt so bad from waiting to be seen I just wanted to go home, he gives me Rx's and in comes a different nurse wanting to give me a shot, I was like "sorry dude, but I am not taking any shots, its against my religion and besides ya'll were'nt even sure if I needed to be xrayed 5 times, so uh uh !
If you are ever injured in anyway, go by ambulance, you get done so much faster and maybe they won't try and turn into a walking Chernobyl !
Anyway, after all this everything goes totally haywire, I find out I am on Workers Comp, cause I was working, the auto insurance people are calling, from every direction, I can barely get around between takin the steroids, pain meds and pain, I am pretty much couch bound and all these insurance people are tryin to get answers outta me.
I've already seen 2 docs, talked with 4 insurance people and its only been 4 days since the accident, so I figure ya know what, I wanta be left alone for a little while til I am not in a fog,so I can think straight, I received papers from insurance companies to fill out, and my advice to anyone really hurt in an accident, be very careful what you sign while you are still in pain and on meds, or you can royally screw yourself ! Luckily I didnt sign and when I was thinkin straight a month later, still had not seen a specialist and was not able to work, get around or think straight, I hired an attorney.
Next post will be about the trials and tribulations you suffer with Dr's, Insurance, Physical Therapy, Work, basically the whole gamut when you can do nothing but be at everyone elses mercy for something you did not cause! Good life lesson for a lot of people I bet !

THE BEGINNING OF THE END !!!

OK, so quite a few of my family and friends think I should elaborate on why I went from being so successful selling building materials, making 6 figures to sit home most of the time and now blog.  Now before you think, well good Lord your family doesnt know, Yes, they know but they also know nobody else really does.
So here it goes, and please before you read this, DO NOT THINK I WANT SYMPATHY, I don't ,this is just the hand I've been dealt.
Ok, anyway, enough with the disclaimer, last September 10, 2010 I was working, which involves driving around all day and making friends, (kinda sounds like facebook without the car huh) anyway, I had just left one of my builders and was heading to another's office. While I was sitting at the red light waiting to turn on a 4 lane hwy, I looked up and saw a pickup coming straight at my drivers door, and he was accelerating, I'm sittin there lookin at him, like it was in slow motion and I'm thinkin "surely hes gonna stop", but instead I could tell he was accelerating and then boom, he hit me right in the drivers door !  I sat there a minute and he just kept staring at me, then he started to back up, I started slamming my body against my door trying to get it open, and then I noticed he put it in drive and started back at me AGAIN, all I could think, and this is the God's honest truth was "Do I know you"? then I cant really tell you what happened I was so busy trying to get the door open, whether he hit me again is a mystery, from the looks of the bruises the next day, the pain that night and ever since, something sure as hell did !
Anyway, called 911, ambulance, police, fire the whole shootin match shows up, kinda embarassing actually with all the lights and attention, but anyway, they start talkin to the man who hit me and he starts having some type of seizure, after they get him sat back down, they came to talk to me, and to be honest, I had been so shaken up and I guess adrenalized (if thats a word) that until I got out of my truck and starting walking around, I didnt even really know I was hurt. But when I turned to get my license outta my truck, WOW it felt like somebody stuck a red hot poker through the joint of my hip, well, here comes the paramedic, telling me you have to go to the hospital, my husband had arrived by then and he was like YEAH YEAH you have to go ! One thing you need to know about me, I don't like Dr.s, hospitals or anybody else in possession of needles, my philosophy is "If you cant get in a hole God made, then you don't get it in", but that never seems to work with the Medical Community.
Anyway, they loaded me in the ambulance, after a lot of fussin by me, and I was strapped on that horrible little gurney thing, the paramedics were so nice and professional, but I still didnt like it, so about the time they are getting ready to haul to needle hell, a medic runs over and says the man who hit me has stopped breathing, and is convulvsing, so I'm like "let me outta here and take that poor man to the hospital", they were going Oh nono you really need to go to, I said I can get there myself, besides, and this is just my opinion, but I hold it in high regards that stopping breathing and convulsing always trumps a hurt hip!
So off they went with the man, my husband and I left in the cars and went to the hospital.
In my next post I will fill you in on the hospital visit, no needles, but a WHOLE Lotta CraZiness goin on there!

Well here we sit

First of all, let me tell you a little bit about myself.  I have been a successful building material salesperson for several years with a nationwide firm, I love to travel, I raised 3 boys into fine men as a single mom, I love animals of any type, except snakes and their really not animals anyway in my opinion. I was adopted when I was only 4 months old, my adopted mother died 4 years ago of alzheimers, I still take care of my elderly adopted father, I have a 2 year old granddaughter, I am married to a wonderful man, this only after several attempts with not so wonderful men.
I used to make 6 figures in the housing industry, but I was injured in a no fault wreck while working and that is why I now am trying to write a blog. I hope my blog will let people out there know they are not the only ones suffering, whether through the economy or like so many, such as myself, living financially in the moment, and then the moment ends, and here we sit.
The unfortunate part of being injured on the job is I have found out the hard way, Workers Compensation Insurance if there to protect the employer, not the employee, they will fight you tooth and nail to keep from having to pay, so will the big insurance companies, even if their client is the one at fault.  Your creditors dont go away, and Workers Comp nor auto insurance carriers really care, your problem not theirs.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE BY MY LIFE, AND THIS ISNT THE 1/2 OF IT NOTHINS OUTTA BOUNDS WITH ME !!!!!!