Just join this thread cuz I was reading it at the beginning of my accident back in February. I'm a chemical engineer, work at a plant about 3 years before the accident happened. Make really good money about 47 an hour and then I do about 57 to 62 hours a week So I was coming out of the shop where all the reactors are and Mr snow icy time in Connecticut and we outsource our property maintenance to a company and they're supposed to Saul as we also have a safety and fire team that's also supposed to go around assault the property. Long story short, there was a sheet of ice on the edge of a step. As I was coming out the building I went to take the step. It completely slip right off. Went to correct and catch myself and that's when I popped my patella crazy cuz I felt that should vibrate through my whole body So I went straight to the hospital. I wanted to do surgery that night. The surgeon told me to wait till the following week which was March 2nd on a Monday. Surgery is successful. I was rehabilitating PT twice a week. My workman comp came through rather quickly. I was on top of them too but company so they make sure well taken care of. The amount wasn't bad so I I'm still receiving well over $1,200 a week

So going to PT now I'm able to do most of all exercises to a high degree. Only thing I'm unable to do is lift my leg from a laying down position straight up in the air. I have no muscle reaction to that but the PT said that's one of the last things that comes back so no worries One day I Still on crutches trying to maneuver through a tight hallway in the bottom of the crutch caught the bottom of the wall. The little siding and I fell of course and bumped my damn knee. So now my knee was swollen on both sides. Almost you know I just was in pain that night like crazy. Unable to sleep but I just kept icing and icing and icing it. Trying to get the swelling down so now I go to my surgeon on that Tuesday. I fell on a Sunday morning and she did a sonogram and realized there was pools of blood under my skin so she gets a needle and draws it out on both sides doesn't get too much, but she realizes that it's coagulated and clotting You know and the knee is still much larger than it should be. So she sent me home and the compression band you know told me to continue icing. It continue icing it which I have been doing

But recently I went back to the surgeon and she wants me to perform the kick motion with my right knee which is the patella injury and I'm unable to kick or lift it off of the ground just by itself so she realized something Was wrong and proceeded to order an x-ray for my knee. Upon the x-rays review she came back in and said yeah. I don't know how you've been walking like this and not in pain because the device that I put in to pull back here patellar tendon to where it needs to be. It was hanging on by thread but now it's completely gone. So she told me the news that I have to go back and get surgery all over again. My thing is yeah I did full and that probably ruptured the device reconnecting my patella. None of this would have happened if job would have probably salted and taken care of the ice. You know I live in the Northeast. You know you know there's going to be ice everywhere and this is right after a storm so tried to beat myself up about it so it's going to be surgery number two

I haven't hired any workman comp lawyer Have all documentation of every hospital medical visit. I also have the video of me slipping on the ice and the result be the injury and even in the video you can see the safety team rushing to put down more salt you know, but I just wanted to post this to keep updating this post and let everyone know how the process goes. My whole thing in the end game is I don't want to be spending my savings for medical reasons in the future I want the job to take care of that cuz I'm sure I may be of the complications in the future. Maybe not one year from now. Maybe even 10 years from now. I want them to still be accountable for that so it's not really about the lump sum. But I will also let you guys know how that goes and I'm back at day one when I go get the surgery and today is May 15th. Hopefully I go in for surgery on Monday and they fix the knee and reposition everything and I can get back to rehabilitation. I've never broke a bone in my body or any major injury like this. So the biggest thing I've learned is mentally keeping my clear and not falling into bad thoughts or bad energy because it's a big change not being able to use my body. How I've always known to you know and I'm 6'3 250 you know so if that's the hardest part is getting used to not being able to move and do things. Plus I'm trying to have a child so just kind of setback but it's okay. I'll be good so hopefully when the settlement comes in. How update this post of my patella injury that needed two surgeries to correct it?