Dear So and So

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Dear So and So.
You took my case. You said you would fight for me. You lazy bastard, you told me my injuries weren't much because I had only broken a couple of bones, and football players are much tougher than girls, they do that all the time.

You took a settlement I asked you not to because you thought you knew better. You told me I was young and resilient, that I would be fine. My doctors blew through that in less than a year. You wouldnt fight for PT for me, you thought you knew better.

Well, it's many years later, and only now can I get back on a bike. Of course, I am on a bike because I have so much trouble walking. I might not have healed better with proper care, but I had a *right* to it, to try to heal as well as I could have.

You righteous, pretentious ***. You smug idiot. I hope you get it now. I hope your nursing home attendant is a cycle commuter. I hope your kids live three states away and are too "busy" to visit you. I hope I never see you in the street, because I might need a lawyer if I do.

[lph]

You lazy bastard, you told me my injuries weren't much because I had only broken a couple of bones, and football players are much tougher than girls, they do that all the time.
You told me I was young and resilient, that I would be fine.

a lawyer told you THAT? what a bunch of crap. there's only one person who knows how much something hurts and that's the one inside. "much tougher", yeah right. young, very fit and coddled by the latest in medical expertise is more like it.

Dear Body,
thank you for being resilient and healing well. love ya.

Dear Mind,
what's with the "omg, i'm gonna die" pain for something that turned out to be pretty trivial anyway? just curious.

Dear Fate,
thank you thank you thank you for a lucky fall and picking the most expendable of my joints. this board reminds me all the time i am so darn lucky i don't deserve it.

[derailed]

Dear Fate,
thank you thank you thank you for a lucky fall and picking the most expendable of my joints. this board reminds me all the time i am so darn lucky i don't deserve it.

Oh yes you do. You deserve health and contentment. Thank you for appreciating it. Make it last!

[Blueberry]

Dear So and So.
You took my case. You said you would fight for me. You lazy bastard, you told me my injuries weren't much because I had only broken a couple of bones, and football players are much tougher than girls, they do that all the time.

You took a settlement I asked you not to because you thought you knew better. You told me I was young and resilient, that I would be fine. My doctors blew through that in less than a year. You wouldnt fight for PT for me, you thought you knew better.

Well, it's many years later, and only now can I get back on a bike. Of course, I am on a bike because I have so much trouble walking. I might not have healed better with proper care, but I had a *right* to it, to try to heal as well as I could have.

You righteous, pretentious ***. You smug idiot. I hope you get it now. I hope your nursing home attendant is a cycle commuter. I hope your kids live three states away and are too "busy" to visit you. I hope I never see you in the street, because I might need a lawyer if I do.

On behalf of my profession, I'm sorry. Too often, people only have interactions with the worst among us. There is no excuse for the way you were treated, and it is not right.

CA

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On behalf of my profession, I'm sorry. Too often, people only have interactions with the worst among us. There is no excuse for the way you were treated, and it is not right.

CA

The problem seems to be that we only have interactions when we are in a position of weakness. Some rare representatives of your trade may take advantage of that.

This had to do with one supercilious dolt who happens to have been available when I was too inexperienced to know how to shop for a proper attorney to protect my interests.

I have had many wonderful interactions with those who practice law in the years since. This one buffoon happened to be an attorney, and happened to continue the ruination of my life, but he's not All lawyers.

Now I know to find a bike lawyer, and where to look for one if I need one. Thank goodness for the internet.

I have needed to let this rant out for many years, and someone else's recent crash post brought it back to me. Thanks for the opportunity to vent, but please don't take the topic as any kind of statement of mistrust or batch-labeling.

Thank you.

[Blueberry]

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No worries. Feel free to vent - I didn't take your post as judgment on all lawyers

It's one of my issues. I just really hate to hear about other lawyers taking advantage of folks in those kinds of situations. It's a very sad fact of life that just shouldn't be. And all too often, that's the only experience people have. I'm very glad that you've had other, better experiences - I just really wish those who acted as that attorney did would not longer be permitted to practice.

CA