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How Much Millions I Can Ask In U.s. For My Husband's Death?

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marielovesashley

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Hi,

I finally got my situation fixed with the U.S. Immigration.

So now back on the other fight. I wish to know how much millions I can ask in U.S. for my husband's death? I am truly not shy to ask the maximum so please let me know.

Thank you in advance,

Marie

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I am sorry for your loss and we will help you if we can. Tell us your story. There are good people on this board who will do what we can and help in anyway. Lisa

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Hi Les and Lisa,

Berta knows me. She helped me here and I got a lot of good informations from you and I am very grateful.

So I am just back on my feet because I had the Immigration fight as well and I just got my permanent resident card. I forgot to ask if this SF 95 I need to fill a.s.a.p. need to be perfect. What I mean is that I wonder since I am in a rush if I would do a mistake to hurry and not wait the precious advices or Dr. Bash.

I had to fight for getting the transfer on time from the VA office to the Albany VA hospital because my husband was suffocating from all this liquid from his lungs. They were waiting for a bed to be available in the Syracuse VA hospital (this was the area of where he was) while my husband had the time to suffocate twice. So I met the social worker and the nurse and did pressure to get this transfer a.s.a.p. to a VA hospital and finally we got a bed at the Albany VA medical center. Before entering there my husband was having liver problems but his liver was able to manage the level of ammonia but with the time, this went out of wack because they did not put him on a LOW PROTEIN DIET like they should because it is difficult for your sick liver to digerate animal proteins so they feed him with too much proteins and he did not have the appropriate care to check this amounth of ammonia even if I fought like insane so he went to the ICU because the ammonia level reached 393 which was a deadly level so he was in coma for a couple of days. Not to mention that they did not even put him on a liver transplant list and it was the first thing to do plus they did not discover the fact my husband had hepatitis C and this is a big mistake because hepatitis C is killing your liver so he had to be on drugs to limit the destruction of your liver. And he got a big operation without a painkiller and he finally asked for help and they gave him morphine and this was not very bright to give him this type of drugs because of his bad liver so they almost killed him another time. After hearing that one of his buddy died because of lack of care and to see with his very eyes the death of the other because of the lack of care, he understood what I was telling him that his life was in danger so he got his hospital release on Nov. 22th, 2006 and he absolutely had to re-inter at the emergency by ambulance on Nov. 28th about 5:00 p.m. because we were both scared to send him back to the VA office or the VA hospital so I did my very best at home to help him but I realized that he was shutting down so I had to call the ambulance because I known I was not able by myself to save his life. But Ashley was all yellow already 4 days after his hospital release. He died Dec. 5th, 2006 i.e. 8 days after his released from this Albany VA medical center. I am sick to death and mad as hell but in control of myself.

I wish them to pay because they are killing folks. Please ask questions if there is something not clear because I am on the emotions.

Thank you in advance for your kind help.

Marie

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Have you thought of consulting an attorney? I know the VA says SF 95 is simple and we can fill it out ourselves, but it is a legal form. Have you spoken to any attorney's in your area?

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Hi Lisa,

I really and truly killed myself to get an attorney with my little 610 per month VA pension because I was not able to use my car and work without this permanent resident card that came 2 weeks ago. So I began first by asking pro bono but since it is free it did not work. Then I offered the contingency basis to other attorneys and it did not work either. (my "add" is even online) I even went to Syracuse to have a personal contact with a firm at 200 miles from my home with the few money I had. So I thought to stop to wait and go ahead because it is now 11 months my husband died and I can not wait forever sympathy so better to take care of myself so I will go with the help of Dr. Bash and I do know he is not an attorney.

Does it mean that the SF 95 has to be perfect-perfect? (I'll do my very best to not do mistakes) I thought to do like Berta even if that does not mean I will succeed. It's just that I can not wait anymore because in April 2007 Berta was telling me to fill this out a.s.a.p. and I had problems with Immigration that are just solved so I am now back on my feet.

Thank you for you advices and your help. I feel supported here and this is rare.

So how much millions I can ask? I wish to ask as much as possible because of course, they will settle for less so better to put the amounth high enough.

Marie

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