[Help] I was in a 100 MPH "no skid" auto accident 26 years ago (as a passenger--we ... Updates to this post /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:37:45 +0100 Reply from tresmilano /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536882 Thanks guys!

I have to run . . .you know what I mean.

Thanks again

Ciao

]]> tresmilano Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:20:07 +0100 Reply from tresmilano /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536865 LN

I have never chatted on-line about this or anything else–if that gives you any indication. I think I am pretty much spent energy wise. I wouldn’t mind going right about now, but I have 2 kids I feel I have to hold on for.

J
I don’t remember the accident–thank God. I was in a coma for a week or so; being on demoral and morphine for another 3.5 months managed to numb that whole emotional experience. For some reason, I am just starting to remember bits and pieces of the accident within the last few weeks. Makes me nocious.

]]> tresmilano Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:11:09 +0100 Reply from Junaid /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536839 Wow that sounds like a gruesome accident.. you are fortunate to be alive.

]]> Junaid Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:00:44 +0100 Reply from littlenick /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536836 So how are you coping now?

]]> littlenick Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:59:50 +0100 Reply from tresmilano /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536834 I have been telling everyone and anyone who will listen, and they somehow think that I am faking or feigning. Interesting thing is that each of those conditions are verified by lab.

What is getting worrisome for me is the fact that I am experiencing long periods of disassociation or fugue states, were I can’t remember “what” I am. I know how unbelievable that sounds, but it is absolutly true. I’m not a doctor, but in the process of trying to help myself I have come to believe that I have a damaged hypothalamus.

I can’t seem to help myself out of this–truly disappointing when you take into consideration that I was nominated and selected to West Point Prep from the enlisted ranks right before my accident, and some of the other things I have been able to accomplish. I’m in the Northwest, do you know a good attorney or advocacy group that could help?

]]> tresmilano Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:59:09 +0100 Reply from littlenick /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536758 And the doctors that gave you those diagnosis could not write it on your disability forms? You have to talk to them and tell them you are completely disabled.

]]> littlenick Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:36:56 +0100 Reply from tresmilano /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536756 My confirmed (major) diagnoses are:

1. Hypokalemia
2. Hypothyroidism
3. Hyperuricemia
4. Hyperglycemia
5. Calcium Formations
6. Left Ankle & Foot Post Trauma Reattachment & Fusion
7. Un-repaired Left knee Post Trauma
8. Left Femur Post Trauma & 3 Inch Discrepancy from Compound Fracture
9. Left Elbow Post Trauma Compound Fracture
10. Unresolved Sternal Fracture
11. Unresolved Right Hemisphere Injury
12. Damaged Cochlea & Labyrinth
13. Straightening of Cervical Spine
14. Cervical Spine Osteophytes & Degenerative Discs
15. Thoracic Degenerative Disc
16. Lumbar Degenerative Arthritis

]]> tresmilano Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:35:40 +0100 Reply from littlenick /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536710 What was your last diagnosis like?

]]> littlenick Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:21:58 +0100 Reply from tresmilano /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536702 I would like to retire based on my disabilities–work is just unbearable. I do not understand how or why anyone would have the expectation that I would not be disabled to the degree that it would warrant retirement. I am now 45 and it sucks to be me.

I have come to the conclusion that most people, even M.D.s, really don’t understand what happens to a body with that kind of impact. I feel like I have to provide them with tangibles so that they do not minimize the way that I feel.

]]> tresmilano Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:20:23 +0100 Reply from littlenick /post/221777-i-was-in-a-100-mph-no-skid#reply-4536573 Why do you have to prove it now, 26 years later? Are you trying to collect disability payments?

]]> littlenick Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:57:01 +0100