Oh, thank you My kids are Cool for answering a long time question for me as I did NOT include the psychological injury in my case. I did not know if a judge would consider the brief mention of CSA in my records to be not something needed to be discussed and shared with my neighbor an his attorney.

You are accurate about his representation being an attorney for an insurance company. And yes, it is well known that they drag things out to tire out the person who is claiming damage. And in my case, they are following along with that path of taking their time and dragging things out. However my own attorney failed to inform me of three scheduled depoisitions because of his inablity to keep track and remember. I don't put all the blame on the opposing attorney and I would not blame that attorney for even being angry. Yes, I would agree with an attorney not having any incentive to drag things out, however my attorney dropped the ball and he knows it. I spoke with him and explained that dragging out my deposition was truely aggrivating my PTSD, but that didn't prevent him from failing once again to inform me of a deposition not even 24 hours in advance so I could prepare. And he had to appologize and admit his error. I will never know what excuse he gave to the opposing attorney. I am still awaiting to finish being deposed to complete a deposition that took place way back in 2010, um we are now well into 2012.

It is the system that I dislike, the attorneys only follow the system and I have learned will use the system to their advantage as in the case of insurance companies dragging things out. Personally I feel that this is wrong and there should be a way that someone can state they are suffering from PTSD so this dragging out doesn't take place. And perhaps some day they will have the ability (and they have developed technology now) to see that there is a pathology that takes place in the brain with PTSD. So perhaps with that, it would eliminate those just using PTSD as an excuse to beat the system too.

I have tried very hard to look at this objectively My Kids are Cool. But I know what I experienced and my neighbor was well aware their system was down and they thought we wouldn't see it at night. There is also a history of these people being disrespectful of boundaries (even tearing down no trespassing signs on my property which is on file with the police with them admitting tearing them down) as well as feeling they should be able to set of fireworks next to my horses/ponies as well, which as you know is against the law. There is also a history of us having to take extra steps for them to contain their dogs in the first place. They would sit on their front steps watching their dogs run onto our property and openly disregard us verbally when we continueously asked them to remove their dogs from our property. Forget the police, they wont come out, and call the dog warden?, oh maybe they will get back to you or maybe they wont as was the case with me, took them a couple of weeks to get out., yeah, that bad.

I understand that we live in a world where people abuse the legal system with faulty claims, so the ones that have a genuine claim have to pay for that. But allowing a case to drag on for years like this is wrong IMO.

The first couple of years all I dealt with were flashbacks and sleepless nights (night terrors) only about the losses of animals, dealing with several injured animals and planters faciitus in both feet from all the handwalking of the crippled animals. Prolonged dragging out of the case turned my flashbacks into re experiencing things I thought were long resolved. I honestly didn't know PTSD could get this bad, never in my wildest dreams would I imagine what I have been dealing with. I can't even afford to complete the examining of some of the animals to reveal all the damage involved, there is no money to do so, my business is only a faint fraction of what it used to be. And basically what I do make is to feed the animals I have left and to pay on the mountain of debt that was created from a negligent disrepectful family who knew better. For the past five years his life goes on, while I have been paying bills, dealing with PTSD, and being requested to remember, remember, remember and pay for something I need to get past.

Honestly?, there is no amount that can give me back what I really want, what I had before my neighbor was so negligent. I was so happy that spring, we all were and I had no idea what this thing called PTSD was nor did I ever dream I would be here today writing this post back to you about this.

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