Here is some good advice. If you keep over doing it you'll end up with more damage and may be done walking. Been there almost did that. Everything you do now "standing up" as far as physical labor hurts your settlement case in the end. Been there done that. If they get you on film doing any work your case may go south for good. Been there done that. Get off the pain killers THEY DO NOT WORK! Been there done that. Try the natural approach, it helps your appetite A LOT! Been there doing that. If you keep taking all the anti-inflammatories you will end up with a rotten gut. Been there have that. Find something to de-stress or will almost go nuts. Been there done that. Find your own surgeon and tell the insurance Co. to KISS YOUR ASS!!! Been there done that and will be doing it again soon. They say they won't pay, trust me I've heard all there scare tactics and BS. In the end they will pay cause the judge will make them pay and then some. Been there done that. It took four years and way too much BS to get it done so be ready for a long roe. BTDT. If they say the nerve damage is permanent don't believe it. I had more nerve damage from so many different things in more places than I can remember. Most of it heals if the nerves were not cut. It takes a long long time. I had no feeling in my left leg from the knee down for three months and it took two years for it to return to my toes and my foot. That was the worst of it but not all of it. If your told BLA BLA BLA prove them wrong. BTDT. I am fifteen years out from a spinal lamonectomy with complications, five hurinated discs, spinal stenosis and a hyeatal hernia that never healed (bad stomach valve). It is cause by way too many meds. They write um up and you chow them down! They can tell you what ever they want to. The difference between what they know and what your will to endure is sooo much different. I won't say things are great but I can still climb and that is something I was told I would never do again, work for a living. I did have to hang up my wrenches on cars but I never stopped looking up. It was real bad at times but my wife convinced me to just go do what you can and they can stick the disability up their a** Even after all that crap to get it she said I was better off now because I would have drove us all crazy and never made it to where I'm at now.
I need to have a double fusion done at least three to four years ago so I know where your at. Why do think I'm on the AS site at all kinds of weird hours. I sleep when I can or get exhausted. Life never turns out to be what we want but if you have people depending on you than you do what has to be done. Been there and still doing that just like you will. Study, learn, ask questions and go with your gut feeling. Most of the time you'll be spot on and rest ends up all good when the wife chimes in and set you straight. Lay on your side and buck wood if you have to with an electric saw running on an ol gen set. Let the POS insurance companies film that!!! Better yet take some of your own films to court and ask them, the insurance company, to have their expert "analyze this" for the court. When they return and say "your fine IOHO" you can ask the judge for an independent assessment of the film, trust me they always come out looking like an a** every time. That pendulum swings both ways and most of time if you, think ahead, it works in your favor not theirs.
DUMP THE MEDS
ask a friend
Be Smart
Decide for yourself what is "right"
Good Luck
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