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Career Ending Operation???

i go to the hospital tomorrow morning (Wednesday 10/28/15) to get my cysts drained out, so that next week, the doctor can blast my kidney stones.
 
well this procedure went rather well.

at least once the doctor asked for a LONGER needle.

i was under "local" sedation, but the nurse was ready with the heavier stuff if i needed it. i did not, but the doctor told her to "give him a little bit"...

my time was for 9, but they did not get me into the room until 11........

procedure took all of about 30 minutes.

at least 2 large cysts were drained out, or "aspirated" is what it is called.

an update to my back, below.
 
UPDATE: Oct. 28th, 2015

my surgeons office called, and reminded me of my appointment with the doctor's P/A tomorrow (Oct 29th) however the gal asked if i had my MRI and EMG done already, and i said no, the insurance company is "Richarding me around", so we had to reschedule till December now.

i sent yet another email to my lawyer asking him when is this crap gonna get done..../?

the insurance company KNOWS they have to approve both tests, hell the IME doctor said so, and they agreed...........!!!!!
 
UPDATE Nov 10, 2015

insurance company continues to play..."hide the weekly compensation check"...

had to call the lawyer yesterday

still waiting for the bastoids to approve the MRI and EMG...which they AGREED TO in court.....!!!!! (about what, 3-4 months ago now????)
 
UPDATE Nov 20, 2015

the game of not paying me is continuing. they are now 3 weeks behind.

my lawyer has been contacting them.
 
It amazes me how they keep doing that to you after the court knows about it.
Has your attorney asked and is there a logical reason why they are delaying your TTD payments?

I wonder if they are going to present you with a buyout after they fix you.
 
Dockworker said:
It amazes me how they keep doing that to you after the court knows about it.
Has your attorney asked and is there a logical reason why they are delaying your TTD payments?

I wonder if they are going to present you with a buyout after they fix you.
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they have gone so far as delaying the penalty payments to me AND paying my lawyer.....

my lawyer told me (as i did not have to be there) that the judge "lowered the boom" on thier lawyer.

however, there is NO penalty money on top of any penalty monies they owe.

my lawyer sent me an email earlier, which being a saturday, i did not expect it. in it, he said he had filed the petition, and they will HAVE to explain that in court, and i suppose, that'll be on the 30th of this month.

however, if the checks come in before that, the petition will be dropped, but certainly NOT any penalty monies tacked on, which is 10% of the weekly payment.

however, if the checks DO NOT arrive soon....well let's see how i told the lawyer....

2 mortgages WILL BE DUE, home insurance will be due, home property taxes will be due..as well as MY bills.

as it is now, if the checks do not come in soon, i'll have to ask mom/dad to ante up for the payments, then i pay them back.

at least, i have THAT option.

as far as a settlement goes, i still HAVE TO have the MRI and EMG that the 2nd IME doctor recommended, and the insurance company AGREED TO...IN COURT.....!!!!!!!!

i think as told to me, the judge has ":had it" with them, but what can he do, i do not know.......maybe ethics fines, regulatory fines, who knows..??

and in closing, i told my lawyer, since they wish to continue to bust my balls, i can most certainly carry this the FULL 6 years in my state..

they must "think" i want out......quite the contrary.......they wanna bust...???

so will i, by taking them to court each and every-time, ensuring my lawyer gets paid as well..............and i get those penalty payments.

i ain't about to "give up easily".........
 
Gotcha. Almost like they are using stalling tactics to get you and your attorney to say "Screw it" and start considering a lump sum buyout without any further surgery.
At this point, I know both parties wants to wash their hands clean of each other.......I would opt for the revision surgery first and I know you would too.
 
They all play those games hoping that you will either not pursue it, drop out or drop the ball somewhere. They roll the dice and you would be surprised at how much they do save by screwing us. How many people have you come across over the years who got injured at work and kept quiet about it? Not necessarily a serious injury but some sort of injury...cut, sprain, broken bone and go to personal doctor, etc. They do their best to deter the worker from reporting the work injury.
 
ABFer said:
They all play those games hoping that you will either not pursue it, drop out or drop the ball somewhere. They roll the dice and you would be surprised at how much they do save by screwing us. How many people have you come across over the years who got injured at work and kept quiet about it? Not necessarily a serious injury but some sort of injury...cut, sprain, broken bone and go to personal doctor, etc. They do their best to deter the worker from reporting the work injury.
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Most patients get put into a one size fits all kind of treatment. It's all about the bottom line with the least amount of treatment, least amount of settlement awards, rather than a true assessment of patients own unique situation. It's funny how specialist doctors say, "not all patients heal the same" yet Work Comp and their doctors seems to think so by putting us in their cookie cutter mold. I've seen some WC insurance companies waste more money this way.
It's crazy and until insurance companies really get held accountable for their delays both monetary and medical it's going to be the same thing for others that have to experience this down the road.
 
Dockworker said:
Gotcha. Almost like they are using stalling tactics to get you and your attorney to say "Screw it" and start considering a lump sum buyout without any further surgery.
At this point, I know both parties wants to wash their hands clean of each other.......I would opt for the revision surgery first and I know you would too.
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this is what a guy i know told me, who went thru the W/C merry-go-round. he had had enough and settled. he got on disability as well.


ABFer said:
They all play those games hoping that you will either not pursue it, drop out or drop the ball somewhere. They roll the dice and you would be surprised at how much they do save by screwing us. How many people have you come across over the years who got injured at work and kept quiet about it? Not necessarily a serious injury but some sort of injury...cut, sprain, broken bone and go to personal doctor, etc. They do their best to deter the worker from reporting the work injury.
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when it comes time to "settle" let me inform you all of how this works.

in MY state, i can be on W/C for 6 years.

ok now, they take the yearly salary and multiply that by the 6. this gives them a "case value or claim value"

now each week they draw x number of dollars to pay the weekly checks.

as time goes by, like around the second year, they reduce that weekly check, by about 30%.

as time goes by, each year, they reduce it more and more.

so any "settlement" comes from the balance of what's left.

if you hear someone "got a million dollar settlement", call thier bluff on it.

you ONLY GET what was "set aside from the beginning, and even then, it is the BALANCE of what is left, after the weekly payments.

doctor visits, therapy, meds, etc, are NOT included in the money "'set aside" at the beginning.

that is all separate.

the only way "some worker" got "a million dollars" was to have some sort of "extra lawsuit" against the employer.

in MY case, since MY employer had W/C insurance, i CANNOT sue the customer, who's property i got injured on.

i also CANNOT sue my employer for more money.........

so any settlement i get, will be very little, which i fully understand, but again, being SO CLOSE to retirement now, i really would rather be on disability, than to have to work anymore. my doctor and some others have already said that, i "may not be able to return to driving"....

so to play the 6 year waiting game, i can do this.




Dockworker said:
Most patients get put into a one size fits all kind of treatment. It's all about the bottom line with the least amount of treatment, least amount of settlement awards, rather than a true assessment of patients own unique situation. It's funny how specialist doctors say, "not all patients heal the same" yet Work Comp and their doctors seems to think so by putting us in their cookie cutter mold. I've seen some WC insurance companies waste more money this way.
It's crazy and until insurance companies really get held accountable for their delays both monetary and medical it's going to be the same thing for others that have to experience this down the road.
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true, most are "one size fits all".

when i got home after my surgery, i went into therapy about 2 weeks (i think) later. damn, the first operation, i went to therapy about 3 months AFTER my operation.

going to therapy i was IN PAIN, and could not do what was expected of me. and i most certainly WAS NOT going to push myself either.

i am about 13 years OLDER than my first operation. i cannot do now what i could do back then. i took longer to heal. i got kicked out of 2 therapy places due to my lack of improvement.

of course the insurance IME doc says "no more operations for you"

the court ordered IME doctor said, "maybe you do, maybe you don't, but you NEED an MRI and EMG to fully read what is happening to your back....

and this is where i am at..

the insurance company AGREED to the court ordered IME, and after the findings...AGREED to the MRI and EMG.......

but they are stalling in giving the approvals..........!!!

again, they wanna play games..??

so the hell can i...............

and get paid (when they pay me), to stay home all day long as well..........


lovin' retirement, as i see it.............
 
UPDATE: Nov 29, 2015

this past friday, i finally got one check that was 4 weeks late, plus the penalty money. they still owe me 3 weeks now.

we go to court tomorrow (the 30th) to find out why the insurance company is stalling on approving the MRI and EMG, which they agreed to in court that was recommended by the court ordered IME doctor.

of course too, the judge will be hearing on how they continue thier stalling tactics on my weekly payments.

they (the insurance company) has been on file now for some time, in doing this. frankly i do not know what the judge can or will do about it.

if it were me, i'd hit them with some sort of contempt to meet obligations, and hit them with a huge fine.

but i do not know what the law says regarding this continued delaying of thier obligations. i just do not feel like looking it up, so i'll ask my lawyer when i see him tomorrow.

more tomorrow, when i return from the afternoon date.
 
UPDATE: Nov 30th, 2015

ok, we went to court. my lawyer withdrew the petition for an operation, pending the outcome of further testing.

however, the judge only granted me the EMG testing, not the MRI, reason being, the court ordered IME doctor did not specify an MRI, my surgeon did.

and to not go thru with my doctors MRI order, is a point the judge needs to reconsider, as it is after all a doctor ordering it up.

the judge said, that when the EMG report comes in, then my doctor can order up an MRI.

my lawyer did not like this decision, and he will appeal that, because as he said, after some time, it'll be a non-issue to get it back in court.

so at the very least, soon enough, i will be having an EMG done.

as far as the payments being due, i have a check that is now 2 weeks past due, and also requires a penalty on top of that.

the "other" lawyer said when he contacted the adjuster (his client) she was not in the office today. he also "claimed" this was the first he has heard of more than one check being past due.....yeah.........

my lawyer told me, if the check(s) do not come in the mail by Tuesday, to call him.


when i was meeting my lawyer, i asked him if the insurance company can be held in some sort of "contempt". he said it is possible that they can be held and made to pay up. but all the judge can do is make the order. if the insurance company does not adhere to the judges order, we drag them back to court again.

as said to me, the insurance company is actually paying MORE monies with the crap they are doing. they MUST pay my lawyer, thier lawyer and court costs. he said, you'd think they'd just pay up and actually save big money.......

from only a quick observance, this can take me into the spring time...........

and i can wait....
 
UPDATE: Dec 7, 2015

well FINALLY, all my checks arrived today, plus the penalty money as well.

a month late.

gotta love the screw around merry go round the insurance companies play with people.

maybe now, at least 2 people will get a Christmas present this year.
 
my lawyer just sent me an email and wanted to know the date on the envelope and the checks. both were of the same date.

i had asked my lawyer, if i was supposed to get 2 penalty checks, since much time went by.

he said no, as they "got the checks in the mail" before that due date, for another penalty.
 
UPDATE: DEC 10, 2015

well i got a call from my surgeon's office, 2 days ago. the EMG was finally approved.

and the gal there faxed that off to the EMG doctor.

earlier this afternoon, the EMG doctors office called to set up that appointment.

it is set for Dec 30th.

next day, back to the surgeon's office to read the report.

an MRI may or will follow depending on the EMG report.
 
UPDATE: Dec 30, 2015

today is the day i finally get to have the EMG done at another doctors office, that my surgeon is sending me to.

it will actually be this afternoon when i go there.

then tomorrow (the 31st), i go see my surgeon's P/A, or the surgeon himself, for a reading of the results.

hopefully, i can also get that MRI my surgeon has been requesting, but has been denied a few times now.

Next week, i go to the court, to have the judge also read the testing results, and maybe then, also send me to an MRI
 
well the EMG testing is done with. they will fax the results to my surgeon, for my visit tomorrow morning.
 
pro1driver said:
UPDATE: Dec 30, 2015

today is the day i finally get to have the EMG done at another doctors office, that my surgeon is sending me to.

it will actually be this afternoon when i go there.

then tomorrow (the 31st), i go see my surgeon's P/A, or the surgeon himself, for a reading of the results.

hopefully, i can also get that MRI my surgeon has been requesting, but has been denied a few times now.

Next week, i go to the court, to have the judge also read the testing results, and maybe then, also send me to an MRI
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If the EMG test is the one that they put dye into your spine with a needle and take several images, while your standing as well as laying?? If that's the same one I had, it will show more than an MRI... I believe the one I had was a Myleogram, Good Luck.......
 
Getoverit said:
If the EMG test is the one that they put dye into your spine with a needle and take several images, while your standing as well as laying?? If that's the same one I had, it will show more than an MRI... I believe the one I had was a Myleogram, Good Luck.......
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no, this EMG test, the doctor touched various spots on my leg and when doing so, zapped me with some voltage.

then after that, the doctor inserted needles into various spots on my leg, then sent an electrical charge to the needles.

whole testing took all of about 20 minutes.

i have not had any dye testing as of yet.
 
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