JasonMalice Feb 5, 2010
If only it really existed.
I've been private about my private life till now; till I got injured:
Yeah, terribly horribly injured. Statistically, I should have died. I made a medical scenario of it: “a 26 year old runner is out on the shoulder of his communal neighborhood country road. This 26 yr old male is hit from the behind by a 4 door sedan traveling at 50mph. the bumper of the car rips the skin right down to the muscle on the back of the knee-bend, and the victim slides up the front of the car only cracking the front of his skull and nose, breaking bones, last with the car still driving, the passenger side mirror is caught in the left armpit of the victim, and because the car is still moving, the mirror gets ripped from the car, causing a complete laceration of the back of the victim’s arm, right down to the muscle. the teenage driver of this vehicle drives on, on then to stop and reverse closer to the scene of the crime. Severable neighbors come to the scene and call 911, as the patient is bleeding profusely from the back of his knee. his head begins to swell with blood and edema so much that you could not even see his ears. none of the bystanders step in to offer life support, not even the teenage driver. An off duty firefighter got the 911 call and shows up with his gear. He assesses the pt, and finds him struggling to breath so he intubates him and the proceeds to radio in the mercy flight helicopter. As he waits for mercy flight, more fire department show, and quickly tend to the profusely bleeding wounds. Loose tourniquets are place on the knee and arm to stop the blood loss. But this causes other swelling in the body. The helicopter arrives, and he is taken to hospital.”
I came home this summer to take my med license boards, and this happens. I was jogging at 9am and some f---ing teenager hits me at 50mph. I was Mercy-Flighted to ECMC hospital, 60 miles away, with 2 weeks in intensive care, and 2 weeks in physical rehab. Right after accident, I was in a 12 day coma too!
The Niagara County Sheriffs Department responded to this accident, and they did not check the person who hit me, Victor Henley, 20, for drugs nor alcohol. He was not searched for a cell phone to rule out that he was text messaging while driving either. They did not even charge this individual with anything whatsoever. Because I was unconscious and bleeding massively, I could not give a statement at the scene of the crime. But Henley told Sheriffs that I ran in front of his car. The incident report, which follows Henley's false statement, does not make sense considering the direction I was running versus the direction his car was travelling. The damage to the car and my injuries' locations on my body conflict with the report and Henley's statement. The report states that we were heading in opposite directions, and Henley states that I ran in front of his car, attempting to cross the street (which I wouldn't have done anyway since I was jogging home, already on the same side of the road as my parent's house.) This is inaccurate seeing as my injuries are directly to the back of my knee, and back of my shoulder, because as his car drifted onto the shoulder of the road, he clipped me from behind. And the photos online at
(http://www.1strespondernews.com/webpages/news/displaynews.aspx?ID=677298b7-5980-4e21-b1fa-c142915fd8f5
) clearly show that what hit me from behind was the car's bumper to the leg tearing my skin and muscle, windshield which hit my skull, and as I was thrust from the moving car, my left shoulder was clipped by and tore off his right side mirror, leaving the shards of glass in the back of my arm and tearing off a considerable amount of skin, requiring the skin graft. This trauma caused my neurology problems I have now, leaving me unable to use my left arm. Had I been hit from any other angle, the injuries would be to my front/side, not rear. Plus, he hit a mailbox, which isn't even on the shoulder of the road, but on the grass, before he hit me. There is a witness that can confirm this, a woman who lives on the street as well.
. The Niagara County Sheriff's Department has told me there is nothing that they can do to Victor Henley-a person with a prior criminal record, along with his family members, who have a prior criminal record for drug and alcohol abuse and even hitting pedestrians with their car.
A prior record! And the Sheriffs Department did not check Henley for drugs nor alcohol. So now at this point, I am disabled, while my aggressor does not get charged with anything, much less a slap on the wrist, due to a botched investigation from the Niagara County Sheriff's Department. It just bothers me that I spent 6 years in the military, living overseas in places from Guam to Germany to the Middle East, and attend medical school in Poland--and the place where I do get hurt and injured is right back home in Western New York. And to top that off, the Niagara County Sheriff's Department tells me there is nothing they can do to help me, while the person who hit and disabled me, changing my life forever, gets to walk free with no penalty whatsoever.
I cannot feel or use my entire left arm, and haven’t since the accident. So I type with one hand now; do everything with one hand. Going to have some surgery on that soon, since the nerves were literally pulled from my spinal cord, they will have to graft nerves from another location back to my upper spine, but that doesn’t guarantee complete restoration of function. And last, cuz the car hit me at first with the impact at the point where my knee bends, behind the knee, I now have what is called a ‘drop foot’, and I cant flex my foot upward, or even feel it, which makes me limp and my foot slap across the ground when I walk.
This last month, I had sinus surgery. Since my nose and bones broke in my face, there has been tear duct obstruction and subsequent infection. My tears couldn’t drain so bacteria breed there. So they went in and cleaned up for proper drainage pathway. I also had an orbital fracture, so my left eye sank in a few centimeters, and I need surgery on that soon to lift the eye back up. Cant have my eye surgery to lift my eyeball up for a few more months tho, due to the fact that my blood vessels behind my eye bled a lot during the accident and aren’t fully healed. .
Had leg surgery 14 days ago, on my nerves. Was laid up for dem 13 days. Stitches out yesterday. Next surgery is this coming Monday. On my spine and upper arm (brachial plexus.) hopefully I can use my arm again. Otherwise. I'm fucked.
I’m still in NY at my parents place. Have missed all of this year of med school. not to mention my apartment in Poland has all my stuff, paid in full, and its just sitting there,, making me the fool.
I’ve been all around in the world in my 8 years of military service, even Iraq lived in Poland for the last 2 years cuz of medical school--- and the place I get injured at is right at home, and I find it hard to believe that someone can hit and injure, and leave a pedestrian permanently disabled, and face no consequence—at all.
Thats how fucked up our society is.
The Chop Shop would have fixed me by now.
