5 posts tagged “lawyer”

Saturday:
    Mom and sister discussed what to do about infection and decided to call doctor's exchange. Doc said since it is an incision do not take chances go to ER, Mom goes to ER they admit her for antibiotics via IV

Sunday - Monday:
    Partner Dr. of her neurosurgeon(her is out of town)  comes to assess situation. He has her sent for CAT scan to check for fluid build up.  Scan reveals fluid build up. Partner says that if he was to decide he would take her back into surgery and clean up wound. Partner Dr. confers with Mom's Dr.. Mom's Dr. calls her and tells her that he agrees with Partners assessment and plans to do Surgery first things Tuesday morning (he cancels other scheduled surgeries to be able to do this).
    Hospital's Infectious Disease Specialist visits Mom and asks questions about her discharge instructions (basically she was not given any), asks if was taking antibiotics after being sent home (Mom says no she was only given pain meds). IDS explains a little more about what was done during initial surgery including something about some packing being used for when Neuro nicked disc. (not positive how accurate this info is because I am getting it second and third hand). IDS also tells Mom that she may need IV antibiotics for 6 weeks after this new surgery, and then possibly pills for rest of life. (I think this is supposed to be severe case possibility).
    Some time during all of this they indicate to Mom that she is probably to fault because of not cleaning wound properly at home (Remember no wound care instructions given at discharge) (I am not happy with the sounds of this)

Tuesday:
    Mom has surgery at 8:30 am. As is typical Dad forgets to call me later to let me know surgery is over and Mom is in new room. I have to call him and find this out.
    Mom is told by doctor's that infection was only in the skin not inside the wound. She is also told that after stay in hospital she will have to be on IV antibiotics for 4 while at home. (I am curious why she would need such extensive amounts of IV antibiotics for only skin infection, when they did not even send her home with pill antibiotics after first surgery)

As of Tuesday night, Mom is in room had dinner (soup and juice and pudding and such). She is on IV antibiotics and pain meds, but doing okay.

I will be heading in to see Mom today while I am in doing Union paperwork, I will also be going over to clean Mom's bathroom thoroughly and replace shower curtain on bath window, because she is worried that some how she may have gotten bacteria on her  in there to cause infection (Mom has a clean bathroom, I do not believe this is what happened but I will do this for Mom).

I have told Mom and Dad both that just to be on the safe side they should keep track of everything they can remember being told to them and done or not done for Mom. I then think they should at least consult a malpractice lawyer. Mom and Dad can not afford a second surgery and visiting home nurse care for the IV antibiotics.  Maybe when I hear more of the information directly from Mom and Dad and not just over the phone, maybe I will feel differently.

more on mom later

Okay I can take a deep sigh of relief. I just got thru at the lawyers office and I was right (my original thought) the appointment is at 2pm today. 

I am having a sudden bit of an anxiety attack, because I am not sure if I am remembering something right.

My roommate asked me before she left, "what time do you have to be at the Prosecutor's office, today?"

I automatically/reflexively replied, "At 2 o'clock"

Now I am having a bit of a panic attack (real slight) wondering

• what if I am wrong?
• what if I am getting my doctor appointment time, and my case time mixed up?
• what if it is supposed to be at 9am?
  
• what if I show up at the wrong time?

I am pretty sure that it is at 2 o'clock because I have this vague recollection of telling myself that it was almost the same time as my doctor appointment the day on Thursday (see previous posts about nap and rescheduling), except that the appointment with the doc was 2:15. But now that I have started second guessing myself I am wondering if I just imagined thinking it was almost the same as the doc. appt. and if in fact it is the same time as my court hearing on Tuesday.

I am going to try to call the my lawyers office at 8:30 to see if just maybe someone will answer the phone early. I am trying to calm myself down and go with my reflexive response that I gave my roommate this morning. Isn't that how the saying goes, something about going with your first answer because your brain usually picks the right answer the first time, because you are not stressing until you start second guessing (not the actually saying but the meaning of it I think).

This is another time when I wish I would remember to check mark the box to send myself a copy of PM's that I send out, here on VOX, because I think I may have PM'ed someone with the time of my appointment. Either that or I wish VOX would automatically keep a copy until you delete it yourself. My luck not matter weather I emailed it to myself or if VOX kept a copy, I would have probably already deleted it.

I know I could go ahead and get ready for the appointment as if it was at 9am and just come back home if I am wrong, it is only a 25min drive into the courthouse. But I really do not want to go there unless I am certain. I am nervous enough about this whole thing as it is, and I think I will get sick if I have to be there twice in one day.

Okay going with my gut, but calling the lawyers office just in case, that is what I will do

Well as I mentioned last night, I had court today. It was okay since it was only a review hearing, but I was still not happy with everything that was being said and done.

I had another first happen today, because of all this. I was fingerprinted even though I was not arrested.
So far I have been handcuffed and read my Miranda rights, but not arrested (way back when this all started) and then fingerprinted but not arrested.

I thought it was kid of odd that they would fingerprint me even though I was not arrested. I thought fingerprinting was only done when you are arrested.

Basically today was to let the judge know that this whole things has still not been resolved and we still plan to go to a jury trial. The judge has requested that the prosecutor's office, my attorney and I, and the Humane Society lady, get together before the trial to try and work something out. So Friday I have to go back to the court house to the prosecutor's office for us to all meet together and try to come up with a solution

I just want to pull my hair out, I am so tired of all of this.

Well tomorrow I have another day at court. It is supposed to be a 'case review'. The county clerk sent out a letter a couple of weeks ago notifying myself and my lawyer of the scheduled review. See there was supposed to be a jury trial and the clerk's office and my lawyer's office were supposed to get together to discuss the date for it to be scheduled. In the mean time a new Assistant Prosecutor has been sworn in and assigned my case. My lawyer and she at one point were discussing a possible plea. I have not heard anything about it in quite a while. I know part of this is because I have not been calling my attorney. I kind of was enjoying not thinking about it. Since there has not been a trial or a plea the court has set up a review hearing. I honestly do not know what to expect from this hearing. Well I know that not too much can be done since it is a review hear and not a bench (judge) trial or a jury trial. Well I suppose if the attorney and the prosecutor have arranged a plea and I agree to it, I could be making a plea and ending this mess, but some how I do not expect that to happen.

I am definitely going to have to get to bed soon and get some rest before my anxiety level gets too high.