Coping With A Family Member's Brain Injury
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Thomas Pretty
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Published on 06/8/2009
This article tells how a traumatic brain injury to a close family member changed his life and how a compensation claim has helped them.
Most people never think that their lives will change when they get up in the morning to go to work; they think that today will be the same as any other as they're drinking their first coffee of the day, eating some toast and reading the paper the way they do every morning. We never think that it can all change in a single moment.
My wife was driving to work one morning late last year and a delivery lorry skidded on some ice, knocking her car fifteen feet across the street into a wall. She survived, but with a grade 10 traumatic brain injury which caused her to lose most of her motor functions. Obviously our family was devastated by this but we were just glad she was alive.
Having one less income in the house and with her requiring a lot of care, things soon became difficult for us financially. Unsure what to do, I talked to a friend who suggested I meet with a solicitor to try and get some compensation from the haulage firm which employed the driver that was responsible for her brain injury.
Though I wasn't too keen on going through the legal process and suing someone, especially if it became a long, drawn out battle, my family needed some financial assistance and I felt we needed some answers too, so I contacted a nearby legal firm who stated that they specialised in personal, spinal and brain injury cases. The initial consultation was free and I instantly felt at ease with the solicitor we spoke to - he had clearly dealt with many of these situations before and seemed confident about the case and sympathetic to what my family and I were going through.
By the time I had left his office, we had arranged some financial support for my family and calls had been made about having a nurse in our house a few days a week to take care of my wife and to take a bit of the strain off of me. Before we'd even started the legal proceedings, I felt that things were going to improve soon. Though my wife wasn't going to fully recover from her brain injury, knowing that we weren't going to struggle while the proceedings were ongoing and that we had a good chance of winning the case really helped up focus on rebuilding our family and moving on from this tragedy.
My wife was driving to work one morning late last year and a delivery lorry skidded on some ice, knocking her car fifteen feet across the street into a wall. She survived, but with a grade 10 traumatic brain injury which caused her to lose most of her motor functions. Obviously our family was devastated by this but we were just glad she was alive.
Having one less income in the house and with her requiring a lot of care, things soon became difficult for us financially. Unsure what to do, I talked to a friend who suggested I meet with a solicitor to try and get some compensation from the haulage firm which employed the driver that was responsible for her brain injury.
Though I wasn't too keen on going through the legal process and suing someone, especially if it became a long, drawn out battle, my family needed some financial assistance and I felt we needed some answers too, so I contacted a nearby legal firm who stated that they specialised in personal, spinal and brain injury cases. The initial consultation was free and I instantly felt at ease with the solicitor we spoke to - he had clearly dealt with many of these situations before and seemed confident about the case and sympathetic to what my family and I were going through.
By the time I had left his office, we had arranged some financial support for my family and calls had been made about having a nurse in our house a few days a week to take care of my wife and to take a bit of the strain off of me. Before we'd even started the legal proceedings, I felt that things were going to improve soon. Though my wife wasn't going to fully recover from her brain injury, knowing that we weren't going to struggle while the proceedings were ongoing and that we had a good chance of winning the case really helped up focus on rebuilding our family and moving on from this tragedy.