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An easy, informative how-to story book for lawyers, people with serious injuries and their friends and family, and for people who want to know what it is really like to fight a personal injury battle in court and how to manage after the case is over.
Burn injuries can be very painful and can scar a person not only physically but also emotionally. Excessive heat and exposure to electricity and chemicals cause burn injuries the same as fire does. Regardless of the cause of the burn injury, people with this type of injury have serious obstacles to overcome during the healing process. The seriousness of a burn injury is classified by how many layers of skin are burned, and the location and size of the burns.
There are three layers of skin:
- The epidermis
- The dermis
- The hypodermis
There are three degrees of burns:
- First Degree Burns affect the epidermis. There is pain and redness with this type of burn. Scarring is not usual.
- Second Degree Burns affect both the epidermis and the dermis and are marked by pain, redness, swelling and blisters. Second Degree Burns may cause mild scarring.
- Third Degree Burns affect all three layers of the skin and are identifiable by charring and areas of dry white skin. These burns can cause serious scarring and even death.
Read below for a sample story from Insider Secrets to Winning Your Personal Injury Battle by Albert Stark.
I met Tim and Lorraine in the lobby of the Crozer Chester Burn Clinic. On Josh’s floor, the door bore a decal—INFECTION CONTROLLED AREA RING FOR ASSISTANCE. A nurse ushered us into a room where we had to wash our hands, put on white gloves and wear cover gowns and masks.
Tim and Lorraine waited outside while Dr. Haith and I went in. I had dropped out of pre-med in college because the dogfish I dissected looked like chopped herring and the embryo I extracted ended up scrambled. The sight of blood made me queasy. As a child, I had seen a neighbor being pulled out of a window filled with flames and carried down a ladder and placed in an ambulance, where he would breathe his last breath. My greatest fear is being burned.
What I could see of Josh’s body was burnt to a crisp. His hands had been burned off. Peeking out of a sheet that went from his chest to his ankles were feet bandaged like a mummy.
Josh’s story teaches what it takes to survive when even the finest doctors gave him a slim chance to live. His story gives people with burn injuries and their loved one a first-hand look at the process of proving that someone else was a fault for an accident, which at first looked like it was all Josh’s fault. He is an example of a courageous person, who has made the most of his disability, adapting to temperature change intolerance, and difficulties faced in every day living. He shares his successes and failures and talks about things most people are afraid to talk about. Josh shares insider secrets to winning a personal injury battle.
