
Just angered
Posted Mar 2, 2011 by anonymous | 69 views | 0 comments
I'm just a senior citizen who like most everyone else at one time or other has had situations occur that could merit 'lawsuit', not frivolous one's either. I always prided myself on this and NEVER filed one. Then the company I work for sends me on a trip to Puerto Rico, the first trip I've taken in over thirty years, because I've worked 2 jobs 7 days a week for 30 years (this just proves that divorced women usually suffer a setback in living style). This trip was totally unexpected and proved to be the beginning of hell! I should have known, my employer had through over 10 years, given me the shaft in so many ways. I had lost a loved one and they thought this would be good for me. It should have been, but my first morning in Puerto Rico, I slipped and fell getting out of the bathtub. When I stepped out onto the towel mat that is left on the tub to put down on the floor which was slick tile, that mat just slid with me on it, I reached for the towel rack, but it just came out of the wall. Needless to say, I unfortunately broke a bone, the fibula in my leg it turned out. It was downhill from there. The very well known chain did not go out of there way to make me comfortable. The hospital in Fajardo where the hotel driver took me was sad, I should have known when I saw patients being admitted bringing their own bedding. They were able to take an X-ray, but they didn't have anyone to set the bone. Getting a cast was hilarious, if I had been in laugh mode. The trip home to Arizona was unbelievable. It was a living nightmare from then on for the next few months, could not walk on crutches, was not able to work. My employer decided when I came back, that they no longer needed my services. My health insurance through my employer did not cover the majority of my medical fees and even two years after this happened I get a bill from a hospital because the insurance didn't pay. My employer was and is self insured. The kicker to this is even if I wanted to file suit against the hotel-spa for this 'slip and fall', the few attorney's contacted out of the yellow pages in my hometown said they wouldn't touch it because it happened in Puerto Rico. Today I'm still unemployed, have used up all of my savings and don't have any medical insurance, because my Cobra coverage ran out after 18 months, but that's another complaint. If I had dependents or a spouse they could get Cobra for 36 months! Due to my health issues, I couldn't get affordable insurance. Even though the Federal government says I qualified due to the fact I had not been without coverage, the rates were out of sight, $900. Something is very wrong with our SYSTEM! There are others with much more to be upset about, so I just needed to get this off my mind. I am truly blessed I know. I am thankful to still be alive and able to have my children and grandchildren.
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