>>>I didn't know about your accident until the other day when I read your post. I sincerely hope your recovery is as complete as possible and that we can argue for many years in the future until then "Hold no quarter"- I can take it.
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>>Thanks. Considering what happened I think I'm quite lucky. When I first regained consciousness at the crash site and looked down I was pretty convinced that my leg was a goner and would not be able to be saved. The doctors that put me back together did a wonderful job of not only saving my leg - but now I'm walking around and running just fine (not as far as before yet of course) - and can surf some waves again too. There will always be a tid-bit of pain with it -- but I've had friends with back pain and other ailments that I bet are dealing with more pain than me. I don't need to take any narcotic pain meds for it either. My head has healed up as well - only thing is that I seem to of lost a lot my sense of smell and with it my sense of taste is diminished some too - but by looking at me you'd never know anything had ever happened. More great work by great doctors. All this puts me in the 'pre-existing-conditions' category now when it comes to insurance though - hopefully I won't end up getting screwed too bad over that in the near future.
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>Glad to hear you recovered!
>Did insurance covered any of your medical bills or ... ?

No - this happened a couple months before the AHA was enacted, and since I was working as a contractor I didn't have health insurance at the time because it was cost prohibitive for me to have it. Had it happened 2 months later I would of had insurance because the AHA brought the cost down enough that I could afford it (at which time I did get some). Sooo...I ended up with a nice $350,000 bill - which of course I have not paid. In another few years it will roll off my credit record - but in the meantime it resulted in destroying my credit record, which of course has made life a bit more difficult. Sadly the person who smashed into me took off, otherwise it wold of been them that had the bill.