Compensation

[Meade's Ball]

I went to a neuropsychologist to be inspected for my hit'n'run claim thing today. It was 3 hours in total and my brain feels addled and rather achey. Pleasingly, he said, from today's tests, that i was in the top 1%, in terms of IQ, of people in the UK. How nice, i thought.
The weird thing, though, i keep thinking over, is how to deal with what he said near the end. There was the stuff about a recommendation for me to be seen by a clinical psychologist for some time to work through the paranoias and deep-seated depression that fails to escape me. I can accept that and welcome it. But it's in what he said he would say to the insurance people that had me. Basically, the compensation is worked out as to what effect the injury will have on my possible earnings. And he said that what has happened to me will have an effect for all of my life and hinder my options for as long as i last.
Now, what's odd is whether i see this professional commentary of my condition as a good thing or not. It might mean i get more money in compensation, which i suppose i should in some way relish. But then it also means i shan't be able to work my way up anywhere if i wanted to. I'll struggle if i try.
Do i celebrate the potential short-term pay-off and hope he is wrong and i can make myself big if i ever wanted? Should i be happy that he found things wrong with me?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Take the WONGA Meado, then use it to prove him wrong

Either way, you'll always be my hero...

 

[Meade's Ball]

Take the WONGA Meado, then use it to prove him wrong

Either way, you'll always be my hero...

With the proceeds i should start my own cult. I'll be PMing YOU at that time with instructions of where to fly to and the sort of funds you'll need for enlightenment. I'll also include a questionnaire for you to complete concerning young dames you know who might come along for the ride and look to carry my fragile spawn. I'll want pics and samples. Then i'll hire experts to put the genetic formula together of my dna and any of the laden ladies so that i produce only children who look just like me, male or/and female. I'll raise those sprogs with love and an iron fist, approving only when they do or say something exactly as i would. I'll then fly them off around the world to spread their educated meadisms to those who dare and, by jingo, an army of me's may grow. When i grow bored of them and more human Meade'ses, then i'll move into the animal kingdom, starting with otters and walri.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Look forward to it.

 

[Beach Hut]

I would just take the pay off if I was you otherwise it will drag on and on and perhaps then become a burden.

It has gone on a fair while - 4/5 years surely it is now time to close the book ?

 

[Kukev31]

Write a book.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I would just take the pay off if I was you otherwise it will drag on and on and perhaps then become a burden.

It has gone on a fair while - 4/5 years surely it is now time to close the book ?

Oh i'll take it when it's offered nearer the end of this year after a few other experts have eyed me up and down and inside out and legal people argued.
I was expecting a very small sum, as i thought i'd get back to close to 100% and only the last few years would have been an arsehole. Just hearing today that i wouldn't ever be right tells me i'll get more of a pay-off than i thought, and i was unsure of whether to think more money was something to hurrah over considering the price paid for it.

 

[brunswick]

heheh people listen to these "experts" and take all that they say as the be all and end all.

you control your mind, being, consciousness etc.

but you are in a state where u let strangers tell u how you are.....this is an issue straight off the bat.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Write a book.

Strangely, that's what the neuropsychologist said i should do only today. He was portly and out-of-breath and professionally serene. I liked him.

 

[brakespear]

you control your mind, being, consciousness etc.

hmmmmmm.....

 

[Meade's Ball]

heheh people listen to these "experts" and take all that they say as the be all and end all.

you control your mind, being, consciousness etc.

but you are in a state where u let strangers tell u how you are.....this is an issue straight off the bat.

There is of course some truth in that, but i trusted his opinion after he'd looked at the x-rays showing a tablespoon of gloop that was once my left-temporal lobe, tested my functionality and identified difficulties that probably wouldn't repair.
I don't take that to be a horrid truth. I just don't know how to morally take it as news.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Write a book.

I'm with you on that one.

I look forward to that cheerful little avatar of MB's and tend to read his musing twice at least.

A lyrical genius akin to a contemporary, modern day Shakespeare.

 

[dougdeep]

Good luck in whatever you do MB. Just don't stop posting on here.

 

[Box of Frogs]

See the psychologist - he will probably recommend sessions of CBT and EMDR which should help you. It will also bump up the value of your claim. Why settle now when you have gone this far? Stick with it and get the payment you deserve.

 

[CHAPPERS]

My sister is a clinical psychologist that deals with head traumas.

Can get you a good deal (I take 10% or your payout though ya get me).

 

[User removed 4]

Oh i'll take it when it's offered nearer the end of this year after a few other experts have eyed me up and down and inside out and legal people argued.
I was expecting a very small sum, as i thought i'd get back to close to 100% and only the last few years would have been an arsehole. Just hearing today that i wouldn't ever be right tells me i'll get more of a pay-off than i thought, and i was unsure of whether to think more money was something to hurrah over considering the price paid for it.

did they ever catch who ran you down ? who is footing the bill for compensation ?

 

[sydney]

did they ever catch who ran you down ? who is footing the bill for compensation ?

it will come out of the public purse..........capische.... good luck with your claim mate.....the ***** tried to chop my right foot off in 88 when i bogled it in a cliff jumping exersise.......22 years later i am still running around on it with very little discomfort.....footy, golf and the occaisional concert ......keep your chin up my son...!!!

 

[Gerbil]

Good luck in whatever you do MB. Just don't stop posting on here.

No, but i wish you would.

 

[User removed 4]

it will come out of the public purse..........capische....

Why the attitude ?