Gosh Véro, hope that you make a full and speedy recovery.
Hate to say it but I agree - however don’t count your chickens as they say.
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radius ?
If I had checked well at a stop sign before moving onto the main road, as I always do, seen it was clear and yet some nutter going at far too fast a speed hit me as I turned out, I would be sbsolurely furious if any blame was attributed to me. And even more furious if my insurance co went knock for knock. Which would only add insult to injury, if injured.
Having done my daily commute on a motorbike for years as well as being a car driver, the standard of care required to preserve your neck on a motorcycle is much higher. And so I hope the police analysis will explain how that driver’s excessive speed was the cause. The numbers are looking odd though so wondering what other factors eg dip in road, or perhaps toxicology of the other driver might reveal what happened.
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I am so sorry to hear about you being in a car crash.
I won’t call it an accident because it obviously wasn’t.
Be kind to yourself because you will be very angry and it’s not good to hold onto to it.
I was in a very bad crash just before The Bear on Roborough Common and my daughter and myself only survived because we were in my MG which was built on a chassis and huge rubber bumpers.
Thinking of you and sending best wishes for a speedy recovery.
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Hope it hasn’t affected your wordling. 
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Only just seen this @vero - it looks appalling. Please take care of yourself! I hope there are people to help even if only occasionally - doing things with a broken arm is very wearing, I know…
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Keep a good eye on the feeling of your neck and peripheral nerves coming from the cervical vertebrae. If your neck becomes stiff and/or sore, you must let whoever is handling the outcome of your accident know asap. Look out for things like tingling in your fingers particularly during the night or any muscle weakness in your arms, hand or shoulders, as that may be evidence of nerve impingement. If you have any symptoms in or from your neck, you need to find out who the lawyer/claims handling company recognises to perform an assessment of neck injury/whiplash. A specialist physiotherapist is often the best person to see, as they tend to see a lot more of this than for example an orthopaedic surgeon. My wife and daughter are often called upon to do a post accident, neck injury assessment. Do this all ASAP. It is no good, months afterwards, coming to the conclusion that your neck still feels “funny” after the accident. An X-Ray is useless as it does not really show soft tissue injuries. if you have a problem, an MRI scan is much better evidence.
Wilson
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Thank you for the info. I had a PET scan in hospital and got another call about it from my insurance today, they are sending me for a check-up in 3 weeks or so to see how everything is.
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A PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scan is a weird choice. The radioactive Technetium is differentially attracted to cancer cells and for this reason a PET scan is normally used to detect cancer cells and secondary metastases. It is quite low resolution compared with Magnetic Resonance Imaging and I would doubt it would show any soft tissue injuries as commonly found in whiplash injuries. I really think you need to have an MRI scan.
Wilson
After our accident last month, both my wife and I had MRI scans within a couple of hours of being admitted to Urgences.
Doctor, “We have some good news and some bad news”.
And I was the lucky one…
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Maybe I’ve got it wrong, they injected something into my arm through the little tap they used for bloods (which they didn’t close when they first put it in, so loads of my precious haemoglobin splattered all over the floor, how we laughed) and I went back and forth through a sort of doughnut shaped structure holding my breath and releasing it as the machine instructed me. They called it un scanner full body. (No specifics what type of scanner, but for MRI they usually say IRM). I thought MRI scans were in a sort of torpedo? And I heard horrifically noisy, this one wasn’t particularly noisy. I wasn’t really very compos mentis by then though. Maybe it was only iodine or something they injected for the tomography.
That will have been the 5G chip!!!
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I suspect it would have been a CT scan with contrast (what the injection does), it’s useful for checking out potentially complex fractures, whereas a PET Scan is more for looking at soft tissue for disease such as cancer.
I’ve recently learned more about these things than I’ve ever wanted to know 
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That also sounds like the CT scan I had last year - injected contrast agent, giant donut.
I suspect you had a SPECT scan, which uses a similar looking machine to a PET scan. It is used to detect inflammation, blood flow or damaged tissues. The full name is Single Photo Emission Computed Tomography. It normally uses an isotope of Gallium rather than the Technetium of the PET scan. It uses a gamma ray camera.
Wilson
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My son had an attack of claustrophobia in the IRM machine, he felt like his nose was going to rub along the top of the tube and he said they seemed to keep him in there for what felt like forever. We tried to decipher the CD he was given with all the pictures and info but couldn’t make head nor tail of it, luckily the specialist up in Toulouse could!
That must have stung!
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from my experience, the good news about these “examinations” is that one does get the results… there and then… 
several years ago… with something injected into me, I was slid into the torpedo tube with just my head sticking out…
No probs for me… they gave me a comfy pillow to rest my head on and I more or less dozed…
Afterwards, I got dressed and waited in my cubicle…
The Specialist came in, handed me the folder with the letter and CD… and discussed the findings of this amazing machine… (well, it is amazing to me)
Yes, I’ve got damaged nerves in my feet… yes, it can be operated on…
no, there is no certainty that I will be better off after surgery… 50/50 chance I might be worse… 
He definitely relaxed when I said… I think I can cope with the “problem” as it is… and he smiled and said… yes, but come back again if it gets tooo much… and we’ll have another look.
All this was in French (I hope everyone’s impressed 
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He spoke clearly and didn’t gabble… waited to see if I’d understood … sometimes I queried and sometimes a grin was enough…
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I had that with my last MRI, got home and discovered that they’d given me someone else’s 
It has to be said that having a significant illness is phenomenal for developing your French and adding a whole new vocabulary.
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didn’t it get discussed… might have been amusing to find you had some “female problem”… 
I always look at the letter/paperwork… fascinating stuff
Yes. tricky one that. Last week I almost did to someone what your basher did to you.
It is impossible to emerge from the lane on the left with a clear view, especially to the right. One has to take it on trust that someone approaching will see at least the bonnet of an emerging car.
Coming out of that lane I edged fwd bit by bit. Just as I thought I was clear to turn right - enough of my car must have been visible for an oncoming car to stop, a car passed, mms away. I noticed that the driver didn’t glance in my direction.
I assumed that if I had T-boned her that it would have been my fault. If she had run into me it would be reasonable to think she had not been paying attention, failing to stop for a car clearly visible in front of her.
Hopefully the second case will see your claim thro’, 100%
Ironically the driver was probably one of the mourners assembling for a funeral at the church thu’ the gateway to the right…