{"id":2260,"date":"2008-12-17T08:23:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T08:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/widow-speak.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-12-17T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T08:23:51","slug":"why-didnt-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2008\/12\/17\/why-didnt-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#039;t you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number one question I get asked isn&#8217;t what you&#8217;d think. Everyone tends to shy away from the &#8220;What happened?&#8221; as they consider it too personal, and most often don&#8217;t want to bring up bad memories or force me to answer something I don&#8217;t want to think about, even now. But, once they DO ask that question &#8211; I tend to get grilled with what they consider most important:<\/p>\n<p>Did you SUE that doctor?<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is No &#8211; but then they want to know why and.. well yeah. To be honest, I&#8217;m not really sure why I didn&#8217;t. Mostly, I didn&#8217;t want to bring the kids through something like that, but also &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t sure I could handle it. While I do blame the doctor for the switch in the meds and causing Kevin&#8217;s death, I don&#8217;t see what good suing him will do. This particular doctor has been sued for malpractice before, and always settles and is still practices medicine here in town.<\/p>\n<p>Part of me me thinks why bother? He&#8217;ll still be there, and it just won&#8217;t do any good. It also won&#8217;t bring Kevin back, or make me feel any better either. Sure, I might get some money out of it &#8211; but what if I don&#8217;t? How am I supposed to pay for representation, if they even decided I had a case?<\/p>\n<p>So there were more questions then answers, and I just couldn&#8217;t see being just like all the Sue Happy Americans, and going to court. It just seemed to be too much bother, for little gain. That, and I was told I&#8217;d have to decide within 2 years, and since it&#8217;s been over 3 now&#8230; yeah.<\/p>\n<p>So no.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t sue.<br \/>\nAny other questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number one question I get asked isn&#8217;t what you&#8217;d think. Everyone tends to shy away from the &#8220;What happened?&#8221; as they consider it too personal, and most often don&#8217;t want to bring up bad memories or force me to answer something I don&#8217;t want to think about, even now. But, once they DO ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-widow-speak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}