Surgery and lawsuit
Hello fellow epiletpics. I just wanted to reply to this thread as well. I had a left temporal craniotomy in October 2007 that was not successful. I was torn between 2 drs, where 1 from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD switched me from tons of various combinattions of medications, and another one at George Washington in Washington DC told me, "you've tried too many diff medications it won't work for you..surgery is the only way" So because of that I decided to have surgery. I think I was asleep during the seizure and all I know that was my recovery time sucked. My face was swollen for I don't know how long and still to this day the left side of my face is numb and the tissue above my eyebrow has not recovered. But you can't really notice unless I try to open my eyes wide open..the right will open wereas the left side won't open all the way. After the surgery he told me that the tissues will repair in about 6 months or so. I went back in 6 months, and not much change. He said to come back in a few months and it's been 1 year and nothing has changed. He said that I may have to get plastic surgery to lift that part of the tissue above my eye and another Dr. that works at George Washington should be able to fix that no problem. When I went to that appt w/ the Dr he told me to go see, the Dr. said he said to me "I don't know what kind of surgery he's talking about. I'll have to speak with him and get back to you Sam. I don't do that type of work." So now that has me concerned. I'm wondering if I can sue him because the tissue above my left eye is torn and I don't think it will heal properly, but I did sign a bunch of paper work before my surgery but I'm not sure if I had to sign some waiver that I won't hold them responsible. This has all been a real pain in the ass, but I've been on some new meds and it's reduced my seizures to a couple times a month which is really good. It may sound back but I still would like to get some money for things that will not heal. What do you guys think?
Sam
Hello fellow epiletpics. I just wanted to reply to this thread as well. I had a left temporal craniotomy in October 2007 that was not successful. I was torn between 2 drs, where 1 from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD switched me from tons of various combinattions of medications, and another one at George Washington in Washington DC told me, "you've tried too many diff medications it won't work for you..surgery is the only way" So because of that I decided to have surgery. I think I was asleep during the seizure and all I know that was my recovery time sucked. My face was swollen for I don't know how long and still to this day the left side of my face is numb and the tissue above my eyebrow has not recovered. But you can't really notice unless I try to open my eyes wide open..the right will open wereas the left side won't open all the way. After the surgery he told me that the tissues will repair in about 6 months or so. I went back in 6 months, and not much change. He said to come back in a few months and it's been 1 year and nothing has changed. He said that I may have to get plastic surgery to lift that part of the tissue above my eye and another Dr. that works at George Washington should be able to fix that no problem. When I went to that appt w/ the Dr he told me to go see, the Dr. said he said to me "I don't know what kind of surgery he's talking about. I'll have to speak with him and get back to you Sam. I don't do that type of work." So now that has me concerned. I'm wondering if I can sue him because the tissue above my left eye is torn and I don't think it will heal properly, but I did sign a bunch of paper work before my surgery but I'm not sure if I had to sign some waiver that I won't hold them responsible. This has all been a real pain in the ass, but I've been on some new meds and it's reduced my seizures to a couple times a month which is really good. It may sound back but I still would like to get some money for things that will not heal. What do you guys think?
Sam