u/sadgirlhaze

I’m trying to figure out if I made the right decision settling my lawsuit, because honestly, I feel like I had no choice.

I was in a Lyft accident and hired Morgan & Morgan. At first, my lawyer was completely gung-ho about my case and made it sound like we were going to fight for a substantial amount of money. After the accident, my back got significantly worse and I eventually had spinal reconstruction surgery. I literally just had a laminectomy on July 29.

Then the other side subpoenaed my PCP records.
Apparently, my records from 2022 and 2023 mention chronic back pain twice, along with a few other references to back pain being treated with medication. The thing is, I genuinely do NOT remember having chronic back pain. I have never had what I would consider serious back pain before this accident.
The treatment in those records was also muscle relaxers. I was never being prescribed painkillers for my back. My lawyer couldn’t even pronounce the medication when we discussed it. I was actually given muscle relaxers for my RLS, which makes me wonder if some of this is being interpreted differently than what was actually going on.

But one of the biggest things I can’t understand is why my own lawyer didn’t already have my PCP’s records.

Why did the other side have to subpoena them before this information came to light? Why hadn’t my lawyer obtained those records, reviewed them, and known about these entries before my deposition?

I was asked in my deposition if I had back pain before the accident, and I said no because that was honestly what I believed. I wasn’t trying to hide anything or lie. I genuinely did not remember those records and had never considered myself someone who had chronic back pain. If my lawyer had reviewed those records beforehand and told me, “These records say you reported back pain in 2022 and 2023,” I could have addressed that honestly and explained what I did and didn’t remember.

Instead, I found out about them after my deposition when the other side got them.

My lawyer originally seemed extremely confident about my case. Then suddenly, after these records came out, everything changed and I was being told about the risks of my case.

My fiancé got on the phone with my lawyer because my panic disorder was making it extremely difficult for me to ask the questions I needed to ask. He asked things like how much I was actually getting and where the settlement money was going. My lawyer got angry and raised his voice at him.

At one point I was having a panic attack and told my lawyer I needed to get off the phone and would call him back in about 30 minutes.

When I called back, I swear it felt like he had come back ready for a fight. I barely got a chance to process everything. I ended up cutting him off and saying that I would settle.

Then his entire tone changed.

Somehow, after that, the settlement number went up and I was going to receive some money instead of walking away with nothing.

I understand that prior medical records can hurt a personal injury case. I’m not asking Reddit to tell me that they don’t matter. I understand why the other side would use them.

What I’m struggling with is whether my lawyer actually fought for me, or whether I was pressured into settling because he didn’t want to deal with the problems those records created.

I feel like there should have been a way to distinguish between whatever muscular issues I may have had before the accident and what happened afterward. Whatever was documented before was never a serious skeletal problem. I never had spinal surgery or anything remotely comparable to what happened after the Lyft accident.

So I’m left wondering:

Did I make the right decision settling, or did my lawyer back me into a corner and pressure me into accepting a settlement because he didn’t want to fight the issues with my prior medical records? And why didn’t my lawyer already have and review those records before my deposition in the first place?

I know nobody here can tell me exactly what my case was worth. I’m more interested in hearing from people who understand personal injury cases, attorneys, paralegals, or people who have been through something similar.

And please be honest with me. If settling was probably the right decision based on what I’ve described, I would rather hear that than have people just tell me what I want to hear.

sometime in the last ten to fifteen years I remember there was a bar in midtown that had an old school cigarette machine that only took cash and was like big, square and metal. I vaguely remember it maybe being red in color.

it was a tiny dive bar with like no space, super dark and the cigarettes were like $10 a pack (this was when a pack of Marlboros used to cost you less than $5) but I didn’t care because it was mad convenient.

I’m really only asking for the bar’s name because I simply can’t remember it. I wasted (lived/loved) many years of my youth sitting at those bar stools.

at this point i'm just reminiscing, but my question is what bar was it with that cigarette machine ? 🚬🍸

Does anyone know why I can’t order Gopuff?

It’s two days in a row now I can’t order anything. It just says temporarily closed and will reopen the next day.

except, they don’t seem to reopen.

I lost power, I’m between midtown/downtown.

Apparently gator bev has power but McDonald’s doesn’t?

Did the lightening strike something?

Today my fiancés(39) son (10) was over and when he came out of the bathroom his dad asked him if he washed his hands. He said “yes” in a really weird pitch and when his dad called him out on it and said “I don’t know buddy I didn’t hear the water running! Did you really?” He doubled down on the lie and said “yes” in that same pitch again.

Both my fiancé and I locked eyes because we knew he was lying to him but we knew that he wasn’t sure how to handle it at that exact moment.

So he let it ride. His mom said he has learned how to be very manipulative. My fiancé said next time it happens (because we’re sure it will,) he’s going to call him out or handle it differently.

The question is, how does he as a parent handle that?

If this isn’t the right place, please redirect me.

There’s a picture of me, somewhere on Reddit.
let’s be blunt, it’s explicit.
I did not post it and I did not give permission for it to be posted.

I need to find this post.
it could be compromising to a job I am applying for.

A friend of my fiance sent him the link and it was a Reddit link. this was like four years ago though. we have no idea how to get to it though because the link we had is long gone.

I don’t know how to do like, searches.

Can someone lead me in the direction of how to narrow it down? To a certain city?

Location : Gainesville, Fl

Edit:

I didn’t even know the picture was being taken.

I want to dox him so badly but I know better. I also believe in karma, so.

My ex like twenty years back (under my eBay account) sold a gold coin with the face of Nero on it for $1000 or something of that amount.

When the buyer got it he was furious that it was just gold plated and not a real coin.

The catch, he never said what kind of gold, just that it was a gold Nero coin specifically.

I think because he didn’t specify, eBay sided with us when the guy tried to get his money back.

Of course I felt terrible for the guy, but I was like seventeen and needed the money anyways.

I’m having spinal surgery in the next month. This is important because it’s very hard for me to stand for any period of time so on my way in a grabbed a cart.

I only went to Walmart for plants and to do blood work. I just happened to see some clearance items on the app I wanted so I took quick screenshots on the map and headed for my targets.

After blood work first, searching high and low for the very last on sale comforter that I wanted, a new pillow, a few plants and a few small items like hand soap etc, I checked out through a person.

Side note; the entire time I was in the garden section there was this really creepy guy who was just watching me. And the way I had to lean on the cart made me feel uncomfortable with how he was looking at me.

So I go to leave and I realize I have like 12% because of course I’ve been jamming out this whole time not giving a single care about what’s going on around me. Hurry through the checkout with the woman, she bags my small items but I obviously have larger items that don’t fit into bags. So this same creepy guy is at the door when I walk out.

He asks for my receipt and I waved him off and told him I paid through the app and didn’t have a receipt. I literally mumbled, waved him away and brushed him off. He followed me outside continuing to ask as a cop car pulls up. This nice lady cop gets out and I smile at her and ask her about her day and this Walmart employee is just hassling me and I’m just ignoring him and she gives him the crazy look like he’s been trouble before.

I don’t know why this guy singled me out or why he bothered me so much. but he was with me in the garden section, he was there when I left and he was there as I was waiting for my Lyft. It just felt weird. I thought they weren’t even supposed to ask you anymore.

So I paid first, last and security of $1500. I have an eviction on my record (tldr; roommate up and dipped and left me with a whole rent I couldn’t pay.) so he asked us to pay an extra month security deposit because we were a “risk.” He also wanted $1200 for pet fees (I have two amazing cats.) but we talked him down to $600. Oh not to mention rent was originally $1800, we talked him down to $1500 because it’s a 3/1 and just my fiance and I.

So total:
$3000 first / last
$3000 deposit
$NF 600

My landlord is super casual. I usually just make a cashiers check out to his company and stop by his gas station and drop it off. anytime between the first and the fifth.

He texted us and asked us if we wanted to renew, we said absolutely, we love it here.

We really do, he’s right down the road and he still doesn’t bother us. We’ve been here a little over a year I think and he’s not been here once. Our washer broke, he bought us a new one. A pipe broke, he sent a plumber.

My question is, does my NF pet fees rollover? We didn’t sign any kind of new lease and our old lease says if we don’t sign a new lease that it goes to a month to month lease (or something like that.)

We plan to live here for like 5+ years. Does my original $600 cover me for however I choose to live here?
He didn’t say anything about paying another pet fee. My cats also don’t make messes, I think there’s one thing they’ve scratched up and a black sharpie will fix that.

I’m literally broken. I had a left hip replacement in July of last year, I need a right hip replacement. I have chronic AVN in my hips. Jan 2025 I was in a crazy car accident. It broke parts of my spine and I’m up for spinal surgery in a few months. We’re working on getting the details for that worked out because it’s not in my city.

I can’t really walk far at all, I can’t stand for more than like five mins at a time. this spinal injury is really fucking serious.

I’ve been a bartender my whole life, I’m 34 now.

I can’t do anything now since this car accident. I can sit but only for short periods of time before I need to lie down to relieve the pressure in my back.

I need to find a way to bring in income.
Right now I’m propagating plants, and selling them but that’s not really bringing in much whatsoever.

I went through my closet, posted all my dresses I don’t wear anymore. sold my Amazon echo. my Nintendo switch with its entire catalog.

I’m just at a breaking point.

What are my options? What can I do from my phone that isn’t a scam? I have an amazing phone voice and I’m very organized. (If I could move id make a great personal assistant.)

I’m just looking for suggestions?
If there aren’t any, just straight up tell me.
My fiancé is supporting us rn and I’ve helped here and there but like I want to help more.

They made theirs by pouring water into regular milk.

They still do.

whenever someone is coming over I usually just meet them on the porch and them noticing I have a ring camera has made several people nervous.

now I just take it inside and put it on charge whenever someone happens to slide by.

put it back up after like nothing ever happened.

I have a neighbor who lets her dog sh*t in the front of my yard but I literally can’t do anything because it’s on the outer side of my fence.

It’s annoying af because I have to be so careful where I walk up my own pathway. this chick just lets her dog off leash wander down the road and apparently it has decided my front yard is it’s new pooping spot and she NEVER picks it up.

EDIT: omg I just remembered this one time I saw this guy let his pit Bull just squat and take a sh*t right on the sidewalk. He stood there, let it happen then kept walking. I didn’t know what to do so I just walked past him…..

Cmon guys I’ve been waiting for this for SO long.

Are they just randomly throwing out some landmarks or are they available everywhere now?

Like I’ll get up and go wherever it is in my town if it’s going on rn.

I can’t even find it in the tabs in the game though :/

My stepson just turned 9 last month, and his mother is now leaving him home alone for long periods of time. Like 8 or so hours. Her and her boyfriend work long hours and aren’t home either when he gets home from school or like right now during the summer he’s home all day alone.

Today he called my fiancé crying because he was playing his Switch and Thomas (my brother in law) accidentally taught him how to switch over to like real life chat not just party chat. Even after Jason (his dad, my Fiancé) told him not to go into those chat rooms he said he wouldn’t.

Well, he did. He called Jason just bawling his eyes out because he was home alone (for hours at this point,) and he had gotten into that chat and some kids were bullying him and treating him really badly.

He was like hyperventilating when he called, then his mom got home from work right as he was on the phone with his dad and the phone went dead.

He talked with his mom and he is all calmed down and fine now. But somehow that feature needs to be blocked he’s barely 9 years old.

The problem is, both his mother and stepfather work a lot and leave him home a lot. I work from home and my fiance doesn’t work until late at night. There’s no reason for my stepson to be home alone when he’s barely 9 years old. I know the rules are fuzzy and Florida says you shouldn’t leave a kid under 12 at home.

He hasn’t brought up the conversation about him being left home alone but he is absolutely furious. He first found out this is happening last Sunday. Both her and her boyfriend had to work and he was home alone the entire day when he could have been with us the entire day.

My fiancée doesn’t want to just report her to the court etc it’s all really complicated. He’s paying child support, he talks to his son every single day, and they usually play video games together everyday. He’s an amazing dad. I don’t understand why she would choose to leave him home alone instead of asking us to watch him.

I don’t know if I’m asking for advice? I just think this is incredibly wrong and any advice on how to approach this in a respectful responsible way would be amazing.

Thank you ☀️

[also, I will not be the one having the conversation, he will be. I just want to support him and have positive things to be able to say if that’s possible!]

Location: Fl

This happened about seven or eight years ago and I still feel horrible about it. I apologize if it’s a little long and rambling 🌀🫧

My ex (Jack) and I were like the best of friends, like before and after we dated. We only dated for a year anyways. but for some reason we were always like incredibly close. (This could have had to do with the fact that we sold coke together.) I was dating someone else at the time and Jack was calling me a lot at night. Like middle of the night 2/3am after he gets home from the bars and he’s all coked up partying and wants me to hang. (Yes, I lived the coke life with him but I was clean at this point and he was not.)

A few months prior to all this we had been living together in a trap house doing our thing, and our lease ran up. the landlord wanted to raise the rent like $1000 so we decided it wasn’t worth staying. then I moved in with my then boyfriend and he moved back to his parents house in another city. I don’t know where he was getting the coke from but I know it wasn’t our regular guy so who knows what he was getting. I just know I wouldn’t have trusted it.

The late night calls went on for quite a few weeks, I know he was really depressed about being back at his parents house and 36. I was trying to be there for him and do everything I could from where I was at. At this point my boyfriend was getting annoyed. We had had a fight that night and I couldn’t answer when Jack called because if it woke up Alden (the new guy) he’d lose his shit again.

So I didn’t answer. I didn’t fucking answer.
Two days later he overdosed on cocaine.

I found out through my old dealer on fucking Snapchat.

He asked me “did you hear about Jack?”
When I told him no, he told me he overdosed and that was that.

None of my so called “friends” told me. (They weren’t my friends, I was their dealer and they were my clients.)

But that fact that I lost my best friend and I didn’t answer the last phone call. He didn’t even leave a message just leaves me devastated.

I still send him messages on Facebook sometimes reminding him how much I miss him and our all night parties til the sun came up. We had so much fun during the few years we were “running the streets.” (And I say that in quotations because it was cocaine, Molly, marijuana before it was legal.) we were like Bonnie and Clyde man we just had it. Either one of us would walk into a bar or club and we had the attention of every man and woman in there.

We’d go to the club right before it closed, then everyone would start texting asking to come over. then everybody just started showing up at our house BYOB BYOD.

It might have been a trap house but it was a trap home, we lived there, we cooked dinner, we watched movies together there it was so much more than just drugs. *He was my best fucking friend.*

I stopped messaging him because I thought it might be unhealthy. and even though I don’t believe in a higher power (let’s not get into an argument about god here.) I do believe in energy and sometimes the wind blows just right way, and I get a scent of the way our house used to smell and I know he’s in his next life doing amazing.

I regret not answering that call. I don’t know if I could have saved him, but I sure as hell would have tried.

(side note; he had sleep apnea really really bad. the amount of coke he was doing I have no doubts that he dozed off like he always used to and suffocated. The official cause being OD.) I don’t know, I could never really get any details after the fact.

I miss him. I’m sorry I let you down Jack.