Have a great Christmas and rest well.

Thanks, Danielle. you too.

Get a lot of sleep and catch up on your reading and writing. Stay away from daytime TV.

Im praying for you Adam. Best wishes to yourself and all your family:-)

You and your brother are responsible for my newfound love of short stories. I hope that you make a speedy and painless recovery.

Thanks everyone. A painless recovery is out at this point, but with six fractured vertebrae, you have to deal with a lot of teeth grinding nights. It is part of the deal. The terrible aspect of all this is that a surgery was performed to repair 3 of the injured bones, and the other 3 were somehow overlooked by the surgeon. He wanted to know why I am not up and running marathons! When I advised him another doc asked why the other 3 vertebrae were not attended to, he said that I was being ridiculous. That I was all good, ready to go back to work. We had a heated argument which led to the illustrious scalpeller erminatimg the conversation.
An hour later, he calls me back and says that, yes, apparently there are some other "minor" compression fractures, and I should come to his office posthaste to be fitted for a brace!
My wife wants me to sue him for malpractice.
So, I have some craziness to deal with, but I won't be hanging up my hat. My love of writing and reading is one that will never be crushed.

Melki wrote: "Get a lot of sleep and catch up on your reading and writing. Stay away from daytime TV."

Now that's some great advice.

Adam wrote: "Thanks everyone. A painless recovery is out at this point, but with six fractured vertebrae, you have to deal with a lot of teeth grinding nights. It is part of the deal. The terrible aspect of all..."

I would agree with your wife, sue the moron. Hell, might also be fun to make an appointment, request that he come to get you himself from the waiting room, and then yell at him about what he did, tell him you are suing for malpractice and tell him very loudly that your are firing him from being your doctor! And make sure that you do that during a busy time. May be a little much, but sometimes these doctor need that!

I have Multiple Sclerosis, and have heard some stories of incompetent doctors, and heard of some people getting rid of their doctors like that and as soon as I heard that idea I thought it was a great one.

No matter what, I would suggest not letting that doctor do anything else for you. He's already shown he isn't good enough.

Adam,
So sorry to hear, I had no idea until I read your blog. Besides suing him, he sounds like the perfect star of your next story and that somehow the doctor gets cursed with all his screw ups coming back to haunt him some how.......

Robert wrote: "Adam wrote: "Thanks everyone. A painless recovery is out at this point, but with six fractured vertebrae, you have to deal with a lot of teeth grinding nights. It is part of the deal. The terrible ..."

You make a sound case for going through with this, Robert. I am looking into attorneys at this moment. Hell, I think the Mr. will divorce me on the grounds of idiocy if I don't get this guy "off the street." He really is a piece of work. My mom has Multiple
Sclerosis and has been living with that for 25 years. I understand how hard that is, and wish you well with it. I have heard of some new drugs on the horizon that may be leaps and bounds ahead of the current crop of treatments available at this time.

Myself, I have diabetes, and my accident was a result of a hypoglycemic episode - my first - while driving my daughter home from school. Luckily, she came through with only minor bumps and bruises, and a new title in my mind: "My little hero"
But I digress. The fact is, I passed out in traffic and wrecked, no one else was hurt, and charges or citations were given. So, if I had not been injured, this would all be like the fading memory of a nightmare, hell; my truck only suffered a dented fender.
The fact that my spine was fractured in so many places in a such a minor accident leads these doctors to presume I have a "bone disease," - inject crude locker room joke here - and want me to have bone density testing done. Now, the surgeon does a kyphoplasty, cementing 3 of my vertebrae to correct their fractures, and misses 3 others, and tells me I am free to go back to work, the world is my oyster. Then the doctor who did the MRI asks me what is the deal with the others, why weren't they addressed, which led me into this disaster. So, I am stuck at the house, fearful to ride in a car, if I hit a pot hole, my spine might shatter! and attempting to understand everything the best I can. The four days in the hospital are a blur due to all the dilotid, I think that's the spelling, I was given. Even now, I'm finding it hard to string thoughts together properly due to tons of other meds, which is why this reply is such a sprawling mess (sorry)So as soon as I have all the ducks in a row, I am going to attempt to make sure this sucky surgeon doesn't mess anyone else's world up.
I am due back at his office on Monday to have staples taken out of my back, maybe that will be when I take your advice and blow my stack in his office. I love that idea. Thanks, Robert. I hope this makes some sense. I haven't slept in a couple of days, and took a couple of pain pills this morning, so I'm loopy as hell. Cheers!

Good advice there from Robert, sue this crappy so called surgeon, and get a new one. What an ass, even working from an MRI he meeses up. Feel better Adam, fingers crossed you can get a decent doctor, and I am so pleased your daughter was OK.

I'm no expert on lawyers, so I can't help you there. I have had some experience with doctors though, and I have to say that I agree with Robert. (I have actually used the firing in public technique myself.)

This surgeon has already worked on you once and apparently has done a crappy job. There is no need to give him a second chance. You have only one body. This isn't your car or something, you know?

I hope that you can get all this straightened out without too much pain and kerfuffle. (I spend my days hoping against hope that I can find a way to work the word kerfuffle into a sentence.)

Dwayne wrote: "Adam,
So sorry to hear, I had no idea until I read your blog. Besides suing him, he sounds like the perfect star of your next story and that somehow the doctor gets cursed with all his screw ups c..."

Yeah. I am sure he would prefer being slapped with a malpractice suit than being dragged into a multi-dimensional hell I could write him into, Dwayne.

Adam wrote: "Robert wrote: "Adam wrote: "Thanks everyone. A painless recovery is out at this point, but with six fractured vertebrae, you have to deal with a lot of teeth grinding nights. It is part of the deal..."

Wow, glad your daughter is ok and no one else was hurt! Hope you don't have a bone disease, though if was a minor accident that might be the case. Having one likely wouldn't be too uncommon either since you already have diabetes though. It sucks, but once you have one disease or cancer you have a higher chance of getting another, which is pretty shitty. I won't be surprised at all if I get another auto-immune disease sometime down the road. As for meds, yeah there is a lot more available now even than in the past. I only take a couple kinda of pills currently, in the process of deciding whether to take another one that takes the place of the needles that I just can't do. The side effects of the pills make me a little iffy though, especially when I am very sure I have one of the two worst forms of MS that those types of meds are not made for. One good thing though is that I was in the Army for almost 5 years and I get free health care and get a nice monthly payment for disability. I'd be screwed without all that, that's for sure. The MS caused me to go out on a leave of absence from my job a year and half ago and won't be going back to since the reason why has only gotten worse. One thing I don't have to worry about though is passing out due to the MS, and it luckily doesn't cause me pain typically.

Charlene wrote: "I'm no expert on lawyers, so I can't help you there. I have had some experience with doctors though, and I have to say that I agree with Robert. (I have actually used the firing in public technique..."

I haven't used the firing in public before, but the bad doctors I have had were when I was in the Army, and I didn't have any choice in the doctors, and if I had used the public firing method I probably would have gotten in trouble, lol.

I've got ms Robert but as I'm in the UK I get my treatment for free even the meds. And my other problem that appeared is low blood pressure. This causes me to fall all the time, and I dare not drive, I like it sounds you Adam, got a fear for it. I hope you get some confidence back there . Robert I wish you luck with your ms, and eventually you get used to the needles. I feel like a pin cushion when I see my doctor!

Dear Mr. Light,
I'm very sorry to hear about your accident and the collateral effects that this problem brought into your life.
It takes almost a lifetime to create some memories of those days gone by; more than infinite seconds, running ahead an endless race, taking a deep breath, stopping for a slow dance in the middle of our life. We realize the rolling difficulties of been alive, without asking to ourselves what we pretend to get from it....too short sunsets and a few nights under the willingly path of comprehension...
I know that this comment is out of the blue, and perhaps it doesn't make much sense, but the way I see it, you're alive, and that's a miracle. Why it happened? Nobody has the answer for the why's of the universe.
It's hard, I know, but I'm pretty confident you'll recover and take the best out of the situation.
I wish you and your family a marvellous New Year.
Best wishes,
Anush =)

Why, thank you so much for those deep and positive words, Anush. You're comment, though out of the blue, as you indicated, is touching and means the world to me right now. I was only just now in the midst of convincing myself how truly amazing it is to be alive and still able to enjoy the sweet oxygen I am breathing. A positive mental attitude is everything, and I thank you for reminding me of that fact.