• j4k3@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I can tell you first hand that disability is not at all like this binary mentality. This was a major injustice to what disability is really like. It reflects how stupid people really are and a judge that should be disbarred. Today is my 10 year anniversary of the day I was disabled by an idiot driver. I could likely toss a tree like this if I tried. It might cost me a few weeks of not sleeping more than 2 hours, but it is my right to take such a risk if I choose. Only stupid people view disability as a binary state. There are levels of misery and limitations you can not fathom. I can’t hold posture for long. You can’t imagine how miserable that really is. I can’t sit up. Laying down most of the time is awful. Simply getting dressed and driving anywhere takes longer than my sustainable limits and pushing past those limits means I will need several days to weeks before I can get back to my standard level of inadequate sleep I have experienced for 10 years now.

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      7 months ago

      Only stupid people would hurt themselves just to have some fun and expect everyone else to pay or make up for it.

      The judge made the right decision here, she hurt herself and is blaming someone else instead of taking responsibility for her actions.

      Being sick or injured means you cannot do everything a healthy person can, that’s just an unfortunate fact of life. Other people shouldn’t have to suffer and pay just so you can do something dangerous, there is plenty of other options available.

      Look at it another way in this particular case, even a healthy person could permanently injure themselves throwing a tree. And she wants to blame something that happened a year before? Get over yourself.

      Most people have no issue going out and having fun, but they don’t want to do the physio and recovery, since it’s no fun and also costs money. It’s usually this, they could have fun, but than they need to pay for physio, so they have fun and bitch instead.

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          7 months ago

          Collision 2017, tree tossing 2018. No doctor would have recommended doing a tree toss if she was already dealing with an injury. And if she wasn’t, why would she blame a year old collision instead of what happened a few days before.

          Read the article yourself maybe…

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              I don’t know why this should have to be explained. 2018 is after 2017, why is there no evidence of the injury prior to the tree tossing?

              Yeah insurance sucks, but let’s stick to the facts here instead of circle jerking fallacies, yeah?

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    I wouldn’t be so quick to discount her injuries. Ask anyone with a nagging back injury, some days you feel like an absolute champ and can throw a damn tree, but other days you’re bed ridden from pinched up nerves. Thats just the nature of the injury.

    I had a friend who got into a car accident, driver drove off a bridge. She’s got a permanently fked up back. But you’d never know it from looking at her. Some days she’s out and about playing football and cycling, other days she’ll take 2 hours to get out of bed because the slightest movement will leave her in tears from her fked up vertebrae.

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      You also shouldn’t be doing things that exacerbate it as well. If she has a nagging back injury, nothing good would ever come from throwing a christmas tree, but future further pain. She was caught doing stuff she shouldn’t have been, and likely wasn’t going to therapy either. Theres more to the story.

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        So let’s just stay in bed the rest of our lives and not try to live a normal life. It’s absolute bullshit that insurance is allowed to shirk their obligations by pretending be investigative journalist or playing doctor.

        If you want to dispute a claim, it should be an independent medical panel pf doctors. Not just photos on a website or social media.

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          No doctor would recommend doing this if you have a nagging back injury.

          There is some stuff you can’t enjoy when you are sick or injured, fact of life, sorry. No reason she couldn’t watch and enjoy, or go ice skating instead, lots of options. She choose something that would injure her back, full stop.