Workers Comp Help
Injured In A Farm Truck Accident
My husband was injured in an accident in Oklahoma 25 years ago in January 1979. In a farm truck accident, he suffered a fractured right femur, with severe collateral complications of 2 fat embolisms to his lungs, a vena cava legation, severe deep vein thrombosis, lung damage, and severe vascular damage, resulting in severe varicose veins from his ankle to his groin to his right chest wall.
The doctors have told us that the distended engorged veins we view on the outside of his body are nothing compared to what has happened to the veins on the inside. No doctor will even touch him for simple surgery. He has venous stasis syndrome in his right leg and has a deep vein blood clot that extends from his right ankle to his thigh. He is in severe pain at all times.
He currently has a varicosed vein that has gotten near the surface of his skin near his shin. The skin has thinned, and the vein has surfaced and spontaneously begins spurting blood up to 18 inches from his leg. The area around the surfaced vein has developed a rash which itches terribly, and is beginning to look necrotic.
He has been on blood thinners, plus other medications since the accident 25 years ago. To our knowledge, he is the longest living survivor of a Vena Cava Ligation and severe complications, again which was a direct result of the collateral damages from the accident. Nearly every new doctor he has seen over the years have told him, "You're supposed to be dead!"
We had fought John Deere WC to get his medications, and doctor bills paid years ago, going to court many times. Everything was pretty well ironed out. Our attorney has since retired. John Deere turned his case over to Sentry Insurance and their WC is now giving my husband fits again. They are refusing to pay the necessary meds to keep him alive, and they tell him he cannot change to a more competent doctor. Nor do they want to allow him to go to a specialist to stop the blood from spurting form his leg or to find out if is becoming necrotic from the long term use of Coumadin, and the lack of circulation. That is just the tip of the iceberg in this case.