Please pray for my wife and me

March 15, 2008 | Self

[jmaroneps37]

My wife is a teacher who was injured in the line of duty. Now the local Bd of Ed wants her to prove her case beyond what has already been done, but we don't have more to give them. We have witness statements. We have the principal's support. We have doctor's notes. If we can't straighten this out by Wednesday they will stop paying her and take her benefits.

[jmaroneps37]

We really need your prayers. Please ask the Lord to work His power on our behalf.

[pandoraou812]

Prayers

[Dog Gone]

Either she’s disabled or she’s not. I think you’re asking us to pray that she’s disabled.

Not quite enough facts.

[cajungirl]

you need a lawyer.

[Moonman62]

Get a lawyer. School boards hate lawsuits.

[LilAngel]

You have my prayers. Now get a lawyer. You can’t afford not to have one.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Get a lawyer. That’s the only language school boards understand.

[svcw]

If she was injured at work she is on workers comp. Get a lawyer.

[fatima]

Get a lawyer.Prayers.

[jmaroneps37]

I have been thinking about this constantly since the letter came yesterday. I slept about an hour then dreamed of it.
I know we are right. It comes down to three questions: Did it happen? - we have a witness and the principal is with us. Did she actually get hurt? We have been to some many doctors I honestly can't remember all of the visits. She has C4-5 damage which has resulted in her inability to raise her head or her arms above horizontal.
Did the incident cause the damage? She had no infirmity before the incident. I have contacted a lawyer friend but he has yet to get back to me. I believe now that even if just those who have said they would pray with me on this, pray for our deliverance from this bureaucratic mess, we will win out. Thank you to those who are praying for us. I'm sorry I did not put more info up, but I'm just so tired of thinking about this and no sleeping well. Thank you to all who are praying with us.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You need a lawyer as well as prayers. Find one that specializes in workman’s comp.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“Not quite enough facts.”

I agree.

I injure myself every day in some way or other.

By the way, Dog Gone, I know I owe you a Freep-mail.

I will get to it this weekend.

My best regards.

[wintertime]

I had a herniated disk of C5-6. It was a painful hell on earth!

Your wife has my prayers. I hope she will soon have a full recovery.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“I’m sorry I did not put more info up, but I’m just so tired of thinking about this and no sleeping well. Thank you to all who are praying with us.”

Easier said than done, but you need rest.

[Dog Gone]

I’m looking forward to that freepmail.

As far as the subject of this thread, I certainly have sympathy, but I don’t know for what.

Maybe that’s just me, but it makes it tough for me to really register what’s going on and care as much as I could.

[Ricebug]

You have my prayers. But get a “good” workman’s comp “lawyer”.

Ricebug

[ClearCase_guy]

I have contacted a lawyer friend but he has yet to get back to me.

This is not the way to go. Pay a real guy, don't wait for your friend to get around to it.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

It usually takes more than simple prayer to deal with school boards. Get an aggressive workers comp attorney and then turn him or her loose on the school board. If your case is just, then results should materialize in short order.

[processing please hold]

You both are in my prayers. God bless.

[cherry]

good luck.....prayers for all of you...

[Smokin' Joe]

Almighty Father, I humbly ask You to deliver swift justice for these folks, as is Your will, for You know all. I ask this in Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen.

[Smokin' Joe]

Almighty Father, I humbly ask You to deliver swift justice for these folks, as is Your will, for You know all. I ask this in Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen.

[Smokin' Joe]

Almighty Father, please see that justice is served, and provide healing and strength for jmaroneps37’s wife. I ask this in Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen.

[Smokin' Joe]

Wow! Three for one click!

[dennisw]

I’m praying that you get a mad dog lawyer to make your case -——FORCEFULLY!

[Allegra]

Prayers up for you and your wife that the conclusion is a just one. Prayers also for His support and guidance.

[dennisw]

I have been thinking about this constantly since the letter came yesterday. I slept about an hour then dreamed of it.
I know we are right. It comes down to three questions: Did it happen? - we have a witness and the principal is with us. Did she actually get hurt? We have been to some many doctors I honestly can't remember all of the visits. She has C4-5 damage which has resulted in her inability to raise her head or her arms above horizontal.
Did the incident cause the damage? She had no infirmity before the incident. I have contacted a lawyer friend but he has yet to get back to me. I believe now that even if just those who have said they would pray with me on this, pray for our deliverance from this bureaucratic mess, we will win out. Thank you to those who are praying for us. I'm sorry I did not put more info up, but I'm just so tired of thinking about this and no sleeping well. Thank you to all who are praying with us.

Soft tissue injuries are very hard to pin down. They do not show up well at all on X rays
Doctors will give you many different opinions on them
Doctors are semi-useless in this area

Rely only on how your wife feels. What the doctors say is irrelevant because THEY DO NOT KNOW!!!

You need to orient yourself totally away from the medical profession and totally towards the legal profession

What you need is the legal profession
Get a good lawyer or you are screwed for life if this injury gets worse in a few months (quite possible!!) and you damn well better go into that hearing with one otherwise they'll know you are a rank amateur and will screw you

[Armedanddangerous]

GET A GOOD LAW FIRM.

I was hit by a car three years ago. L1, L2 and L4 were compression fractured.

To this day, I continue to walk with a cane and am in chronic pain. You cannot prove to someone that you have back pain because there is nothing that you can point to a screen that a lay person can wrap their heads around. They either believe you or they don’t.

Im in my second year of a legal tussle with the insurance company of the person who hit me and theyre trying to nickel and dime me to death. Theyve sicked private investigators on me and even contacted people Ive posted to on the internet.

It is imperative that on Monday morning you secure a credible personal defense attorney that will go to bat for you on a contingency fee contract. When 8 am comes on monday start calling till you find one that will see you. Also, remember that there is a finite amount of time that you can sue in.

I have gotten an education in this crap since I got hit..so trust me. It’s a dog eat dog mess..don’t let anyone take advantage of you.

[JDoutrider]

Prayers and hoping your soon to be found lawyer will set this straight!

[dennisw]

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[dennisw]

My wife is a teacher who was injured in the line of duty. Now the local Bd of Ed wants her to prove her case beyond what has already been done, but we don't have more to give them. We have witness statements. We have the principal's support. We have doctor's notes. If we can't straighten this out by Wednesday they will stop paying her and take her benefits.

You got everything but a good lawyer. You are an idiot! Stop being nice and go get one. Postpone the hearing if necessary. You don't bring a knife to a gun fight but this is exactly what you are doing.

Stop being nice!!! Defend your wife and family!!

 

[napscoordinator]

Prayers to you and your wife on a successful outcome.

[longjack]

If your wife hasn't gone to work since the injury and has run out of sick days there really isn't much the school board can do. Her medical insurance shouldn't be dropped because of that, though. If the evidence they are asking for is a prerequisite for extending her sick time, then they are trying to be helpful, IMHO.

If your wife is being threatened with discipline because her claims are contradictory to the other parties claims, then you need a lawyer.

If the school board is fighting the payment of workman's comp because of the injury, then you need a lawyer.

The safest thing to do is to find a lawyer. In workman's comp cases, I've seen school districts just replace injured workers, gambling that they won't defend themselves.

[Clara Lou]

You don’t have to take worker’s comp if you’re injured at work. It’s a choice.

[svcw]

True enough.
But I do get a check every week coving about 80% of my take home pay and WC has covered all my medical bills without question.
I am thinking my case is unusual, as the insurance company has treated me very well. (My husband thinks it is because the company made a simple mistake and thats they I was injured.)

[jmaroneps37]

I know we have right on our side now I know we have His power on our side. Tomorrow, Monday I will be starting a series of moves, decisions and contacting people. I just need prayers that I will make all the right decisions and right contacts. I have contacted a lawyer friend and colleague and will be guided by him.
The whole issue rests on the answers to these three questions:
Did the incident take place? - yes we have my wife's statement backed up by a witness and her principal is totally supportive of her.
Is she disabled now? Yes, and we have a mountain of medical proof to back that up.
Was my wife infirmed before the incident, is this a preexisting condition? No,there is no evidence of that.
Why would I be so worried with all of this going for us? Because we are in the hands of an agency that has made bungling and lack of concern for it's workers an art form. We just don't want ANY kind of break in service, even for a single day, because we are trying to get my wife retired at the earliest possible time. I'll write tomorrow with what the day brings.

[big'ol_freeper]

Hire a lawyer immediately.

[television is just wrong]

Yes, without a lawyer, they laugh at you.

[mad_as_he$$]

Got a lawyer? If not get one TODAY!

[pilipo]

He is not an idiot.

[jmaroneps37]

Update: We went to our City Councilman's office and as my lawyer did, he contacted the Dept. of Education to shake them up. We'll see tomorrow if it did any good. Both seemed to think it did. The lawyer is a close friend and the Councilman is a guy I have campaigned for.
Believe it or not when we got to Jane's school ONLY just over 60 hours from the deadline, did someone mention yet another report! We got three copies of it and got one to our orthopedist, one to our pain doctor and we are keeping one. We also found out that we can not ask for arbitration because they have not yet turned us down! I believe that the problem now is that we have submitted medical proof that has no been presented to the Dept of Education in a format they can understand. In other words these human autotrons can't read and acknowledge anything except what is written on their forms!

We went to the ortho doctor and his office said we can get his note tomorrow at 8:30AM. Nice but the pain doctor's office won't have their note ready until 1:30PM. Of course that presents yet another problem because the DoE doctor is only there until 3PM and about forty miles away. We will really have to move and pray we don't hit traffic.
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Last night I slept just 3 hours, not because I was scared, just the opposite I couldn't WAIT for today to come so I could start fighting. Please pray with us, we are close to victory as long as we make no mistakes.

[jmaroneps37]

I went to Jane's school yesterday and delivered a new set of medical notes. I watched as he faxed these papers and his approval of the line of duty to the D o E. Today we went to the orthopedic doctor. He gave us a great narrative and a referral to to an orthopedic surgeon for an operation.
We then went personally to the D o E in Brooklyn and were not surprised that A) what we had sent had not yet been given to the doctor B) would most likely not have been given to the doctor and C) the doctor remembered NOTHING about having told us we should hand deliver any important papers to him personally.

The clerk was very nice. She not only made copies of everything for us, ( something we KNOW she DOES NOT DO, because we have witnessed her turn others down) but time stamped everything before she gave the originals to the doctor and copies to us. When I handed the doctor the papers I saved the best for last. It was the threatening letter saying Jane would in effect be fired at mid night if THEY did not act on her application for a line of duty injury leave of absence.

We beat the time limit by 75 minutes as this transaction took place at 11:45 AM and the doctor was to end his day at 1PM. Had we been delayed for even two hours after five months of DoE bungling Jane and I would be in a terrible position right now.

Note: when the secretary at Jane's school gave us everything they had on her case, she included an interesting single sheet of paper. It had to do with a mundane payroll matter BUT when it was copied,it picked up a post-it that said they had given THIS FORM, and THAT FORM to Jane's husband. What it did not include could turn into the heart of our case should we be forced to sue the DoE. It did NOT include the form that we have been agonizing over for the past week. This simple piece of paper proves we never got that form and it was THEIR fault that we never got it.

Over the past week we have had many people step forward on our behalf, we have been amazed and humbled at the generosity of spirit and caring so many people, friends, family and colleagues have shown us.
We are both extremely grateful for your help.
We don't know for sure that we have slain this dragon, but we do know we will have all the support we need if there is a round two.
Thank you for your prayers

[jmaroneps37]

This is Tuesday morning. We have still heard nothing from the School system. I will write more with final results.
Again, thank you to all for your prayers and notes of support.