By now, most of you will know that I was in a terrible car accident a little over four years ago. I spent five hours in surgery three days after the accident to fix my leg. There is a big metal rod in my femur now. They used metal wire to stitch my knee back together. There was a fracture in my ankle. And (although they didn't see it at the time), I also had a talar process fracture (a bone in my foot cracked off and lodged in the muscle). I had two further surgeries after the accident - one to remove the wire from my knee, and the other (finally) to remove that piece of bone.
My lawyer, a very successful accident attorney, has seen the gamut of clients in his office. Although he specializes in car accidents, he also has slips and falls and other insurance claims. He's seen people who've turned their ankle in the bank parking lot and never been able to work again. Others who have been hit from behind and had whiplash and PTSD so bad they can no longer leave the house.
And then he had me.
