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Hi my name is Diana I live on Long Island NY and I fell coming out of my car on a parking lot of a store on 7/13/08 (I was getting a birthday cake for my mom) there was a sewage drain below ground level with cracked and uneven pavement around it. As I was comming out of my car and put my left foot on the ground and release the other foot from the running board of the car I fell and my ankle broke I heard the noise as I fell I hit the ground on my right side by wich I got my ribs dislocated I tried to sit up but the door of my car was open and hit it head on and fell on my back and neck when I was finally able to stand up I saw the bone sticking out luckily it didn’t rip my skin open so I grabed my ankle with both hands and snapped it back in place it hurt like hell. Some good and amazing people parked next to my car came to my help no one else did I scream and yelled help but no one came except for this people who inmediatly called my boyfriend to come over(I had left my cellphone at home) and runned inside the store to get a manager to call for an ambulance, my boyfriend got there before the ambulance I was on the floor for about 35 min. Until my boyfriend finally called an ambulance(because the managers of the store never did) they came out until the ambulance and police came to take pictures of my already blue and swollen ankle. Finally after 45 to 50 min. They took me to the hospital they gave me oxycodene for the pain but it didn’t help at all they took a lot of x-rays the good news was that I didn’t needed surgery but I had a broken ankle wich I already knew I was released with a splint on my broken ankle, sprained neck, back and shoulder, the next day I saw an orthopedic wich took it as a normal broken ankle but the pain and suffer I was going thru I knew that something was wrong even though he said it was a normal case of a broken ankle but I didn’t need surgery. 2 days later I was taken to the emergency room by ambulance again due to the severe pain I felt on my ankle and I could not get up my back felt like I was beeing stabbed they did x-rays but nothing they said I was fine and exagerating they release me. I took morphine, oxycodone, hydromorphone, zolpidem, lorazepam and nothing helped they put me on therapy earlier than any patient should but nothing my foot turned into a grayish blue with shiny skin, it would swell up with any little movement hiper sensitive I began having migrains, muscular spasms not only on my ankle but all over my body, I began trying to move my toes but wouldn’t move my foot got stiff and I began to worry I knew since the begining that something was wrong and my foot was abnormally swollen and the pain was unbearable no one understood my pain. The more medicine I took the more depressed I became I had suicidal thoughts sleepless nights I forgot how a good night sleep feels. The doctor took me out of my splint and put me on a boot cam ( big black boot ) finally after almost 3 months he was at a loss he didn’t know what to say I aparently have been his most complicated case he says he has never seen someone like me so he consulted with collegues and I was diagnosed with rsd and osteoarthritis and bone loss I get dissapointed every time I have to go to the dr. I never get any good news my bone isn’t healing since he sent me to therapy , my therapist began moving my foot a lot and my bone came out of place and it is uneven now I can feel a big gap it seems as if a chunk of bone was removed from my ankle he said it will be alright but now I am scared to move it I dont want it to keep moving because I told my therapist I had felt it move and he stopped now my ankle is out of place and no sign of healing soon I am depressed can’t work and no income I have spent over $7,000.00 on this and it keeps goin I have no health insurance and its hard. The pain is unbearable and the sad part of it is that with any medicine I take I tend to only get the side effects not the good effects I should be getting. Now I am taking etodolac, lyrica, methylprenisolone and my pain is worst I become very dizzy my foot is worst it swells up every time I take my medicine and becomes over sensitive. I have mood swings depresion, migrains, dry moth, upset stomach, sleeping problems, high fevers, constant sweating,weakness, nausea, chronic back pain and many more. My Dr. says it will be a long time before I get any better and my bone starts healing I can’t stand it anymore I am desperate this pain is a killer. I got to the point of not wanting to speak or see anyone my pain is horrible and there is nothing to do but have patience wich already ran out. I have never been hospitalized or taken to any dr. For any reason I had always been the healthiest one in my family but now that I did I am the worst case my family has ever seen. My attorneys are working on the case but money has ranned out of my pockets, they say they are working on it but I need money now not 3 yrs. From now. I’ll update you on my slow recovery. Reading all this cases that have lasted for years are not any consolation for me belive me I read them all and cried because it might be me waiting for years to heal.
September 2008
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