No heart at workers’ comp
My friend has been in pain for eight years from a car accident in 2003 and an assault in the school where she was teaching special education in 2008.
The workers’ compensation board has fought her every step of the way on getting the care she deserves. As a result she is in constant pain and has been denied the treatment she so desperately needs, even though a judge ordered the board to let her have what she needs to have a somewhat normal life.
She has a lawyer to handle the matter, but at $1,500 a pop she just can’t afford it.
I’d like to see anyone from workers’ comp go through one day with her pain just to see how it feels.
She doesn’t ask for more than the procedures needed to see whether she can have a normal life. Is that too much to ask?
The system has failed her and God knows how many other people and it is despicable and disgusting that this is allowed to go on.
If anyone reading this is going through the same thing, it’s time to speak up, or nothing will change.
Pete Horine
Lexington
This story was originally published April 6, 2016 at 6:21 PM with the headline "No heart at workers’ comp."