The Doctor was Wrong

This site is run by Karen and Michael James. We are trying to help Karen and our daughter to cure their myofascial pain caused by a car accident. Hawaii is a no-fault state and the driver of the pickup truck, David Michaels was in too much of a hurry to get to work and plowed through the intersection into the car with Karen and the three kids. He gave a hurried statement to the police before rushing to get his tools out of his wrecked truck and rushing off to his work site. His life goes on, while ours lays in ruins. There will be virtually no money from the insurance company. We can’t sue because he has only his primary residence and his one vehicle. In the meantime, we have second mortgaged our house, and if the medical bills continue to mount we will end up losing our home. A great state where you can plow through a family and keep living your life while the victims lose their lives.

My daughter was 6 years old and on a competitive cheerleading squad before the accident. Now she can’t even play outside with her friends for more than a few hours before either she huts immediately, or hurts as evening rolls around and the muscles start to throb. We ask her why she keeps playing if it hurts, and she just says, “Because I don’t want to NOT play.” I get notes flown down over the stairs at night telling me how she feels like she has lost all of her childhood. She desperately wants to get better, but she seems to get worse and worse.

You will see in this blog the things that we have tried, the things that we have found. We are limited by what our insurance company (Kaiser Permanente of Hawaii) is willing to do. We are limited by our personal funds. And we are limited to what is available in Hawaii (which goes back to the lack of funds to get to treatment on the mainland).

As the dad, I have to watch my daughter cry at night, cry as each needle is injected into the trigger points, cry as she thinks of the things she could be doing, and cry because the doctors can’t seem to get it right. As a husband I have to watch my relationship with my wife dwindle away. She is in too much pain for intimate time, too much pain to stay awake most days, too much pain to sit at the dinner table, and when the pain isn’t there is because of the methadone and diazepam and then she is asleep for another 4 hours. I went out for my evening walk about 30 minutes ago. When I got back she was sound asleep on the couch. I came in took off my shoes, got a drink, changed the toner on the printer, sat down at the computer and didn’t even wake her up. When she is awake, I think it is the drugs that have changed her personality. She snaps more, says everything in a nasty tone, is quick to get into an argument, and gets upset at me and the kids for seemingly no reason. She says that it’s me and not her, but other people are seeing it too.

This site is setup so that hopefully we can keep just one family from going through what we have gone through. Look at what we have here, get treatment early, get the right treatment, take the information to your doctors and get help fast. Don’t let it spread and take over not only your body, but your life as well.

- Michael