tonsils out, jaw broke, partially deaf!!

[iceman]

a friend of mine had a operation to remove her tonsils, she is 24 and has gone through hell, first of all the opened her jaw to wide which seperated it and she gets sever pain and continuous clicking when opening and shuting its a awful cracking noise, they also accindenmtly burned the back of her throat as well when removing the tonsils.

she got home and it was people notice she was talking louder tele up full blast and when she was in the milking parlour she cannot hear anything.

she went got her ears tested and it is 70% in one ear and 40% deafness in the other after going to the doctors she came out crying and in her hand was a hearing aid.

she went and asked what she can do about at a local soliciters and the answer was because she never had a ear test before and doctors will not go against each other that it's not worth the bother.

i think it's b*llocks who has a ear test if they have no problem with there hearing.

love some advice or find similar cases as this lady is a decent hard working 24 year old who is suffering and would not harm a fly and tbh being sh*ted on.

 

[Deleted account DD]

Im no expert at all in this area but I would have thought that if on balance of probability she can demonstrate via independent witness that her hearing has deteriorated since the op, shes on roll.

I would also have thought the burn is an absolute. Its either burnt or it isnt :nenau

The comment regarding doctors going "against" each other is fair enough but not completely true. Thats how these claim people set up. Whilst they do get a slagging off at times theyre prepared to go outside of the old system, get an indepandant medical opinion of her condition, compare it to how she was and argue it from there.

I suspect the solicitor you spoke with wanted the easy job.

 

[felixthelogchopper]

The burn part should be the simple bit, far easier to prove the op as the cause. Any decent defence lawyer would probably look to muddy the waters on the hearing part by introducing other possible causes, eg noise in the milking parlour, for her hearing loss. What she needs is a good old-fashioned bulldog of a lawyer, possibly funded by a CFA which can be funded if she has legal cover already on any insurance policies without taking out the separate contingency fee.

 

[macabethiel]

Assuming that she is not just a freeloader after some compensation from an ambulance chasing law firm I would start with some basics.

How long ago was the operation and has everything healed up fine ? Give it time and count your blessings there are worse things in life. You need to give it a year for things to settle down.

I had poor hearing as a child (6 year of age) and had my Tonsels and Adenoids removed when I was 8 years old it took about a year before everything settled down.

To be honest it made bugger all improvement to my hearing despite the claims so I just sat nearer the front of the class and became a shouter and still am. (Much to the wifes annoyance)

I have two digital hearing aids that I never wear and fitted an audible indicator/amplifier to my Terrano R3mR. Its mainly treble loss with me that comes to all of us in old age I just turn up the Audio Treble to compensate I have a similar hearing level as your friend at 70 % left & 30 % right.

I am quite pragmatic at the age of 62 having survived Hodgkins Lymphoma twice circa 1967 & 1990 and I have four stents in my heart circa 1997 (one rear of heart muscle), 1998 (two front of heart muscle), and finally 1999 one big stent inside the 1998 pair !

Next time it will have to be open heart surgery - I think our NHS is fantastic.

I play Badminton every week and at 6 ft 1 inch & 14 stone 2 Lbs I am just classed as borderline overweight.

As a friend and outsider it might seem your friend has been dealt a cruel blow but in the grand scale of things it is but a bubble in the stream of life. We only live once this is not a dress rehearsal get on with living and look at the positive. Is her eyesight good ? Has she got her marbles ? Has she the limbs she was born with ? Has she someone who loves her ? Need I go on ?

 

[iceman]

she's not a freeloader and i agree be thankful it was not worse, i have a mate who had a accident and left in a wheelchair he is a bubble of life at actually said yesterday to me when his girlfriend went out the door to go for a cycle ride i wish i could do that again but i'm much luckier then the ones he seen just using there mouth to move there chair.

i will pass on the info and advise her to let it take time.