If You Are Injured After a Wreck, Dog Bite, Slip & Fall or _______:Seek Medical Attention

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Trey Mills

It sounds so simple but so many people I interact with from Greenville, Anderson, Oconee, Seneca, Clemson, and the remainder of South Carolina, have a hard time understanding that lawyers are not doctors. 

If you are hurt, hurting, in pain, or otherwise not in the same physical, mental, or emotional state you were in prior to some traumatic injury, or incident, then you should seek medical advice.  Doing this simple act can help you on several fronts:

  1. This helps diagnose and assess your problems;
  2. This helps you get better; and
  3. This helps objectify and validate the change(s) in your condition.

Having grown up in the rural area of Prosperity, South Carolina and now working for people from similar areas of the state, the comment:

"I dont like going to the doctor. They are just going to give me medication and run up a lot of bills."

is a comment I hear all too often. However, try telling that evil insurance company that you are hurt, hurting, in pain, or otherwise not in the same mental, physical, or emotional condition you were in before ____________. (fill in the blank-wreck, slip & fall, dog bite, injury at work, and/or negligent product).

Try figuring out a reasonable and fair amount to be compensated for your injury when you are the only voice or piece of evidence in your favor. Think that evil insurance company will believe you more or a disinterested third party that has no interest in the outcome?

I know, most times the evil insurance adjusters wouldn't believe they were on fire if they saw their skin melting but you can only do your part as a reasonable person. Leave the insurance fighting to those that do it all the time and fight for your rights--trial lawyers, aka Trey Mills.

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Hello 15 Years of Remission from Cancer, So Good to See You

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Trey Mills

I never thought I would be able to celebrate past my early twenties much less into my thirties. As I come around high school kids and young adults I feel like it was only yesterday that I was in high school or college. Ha. Ha. Time has flown by and only a cliche like that can be used because as I look back on a decade and half of borrowed time from the reaper, it has gone away in the snap of my fingers.

It would seem as you reach each milestone- 5 years, 10 years, & now 15 years you would become exponentially wiser, healthier, and wealthier. I can't say I have reached all those but;

  • it does feel good to be alive;
  • to love;
  • to be loved;
  • to be away from the encumbrances of IV lines, doctors, and hospitals, in other words, to be healthy;
  • to give back;
  • to be productive and have work; and
  • mainly to live in its truest since.

I know there are many that have not reached their goals or moved on from worldly constraints so I simply want to celebrate today, for it is all I have.

 

I was in a deposition a week or so ago, bored silly, so I was going through the "Motivational Quotes" application on my phone and this has stuck with me since:

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

I have done that in the past 15 years and it feels good.

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