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xXYOUREDGEXxJuly 15 Where I Stand Against CO2 and Black Mold PoisoningWell that's just a minor look at the things I have to deal with on a daily basis and remember. Anyone that has looked at my photo slide show on my http://wwgyouredge.spaces.live.com/ page can also see how we fought a broken main water line. During the repairs we were ordered by my Supervisor to serve food even though we did not have hot water in the facility. This is a Health Code Violation but he felt it was more important to sell food when we could not wash rotating dishes than to secure the fresh clean water. Texas itself has some of the weakest laws in the country when it comes to protecting its employees. By allowing owners of businesses to provide their own coverage a small restaurant owner can get by simply by sending a person to the hospital. Others like the McDonald's Corporation hires a Risk Management Group who determines whether your injury in covered or not. First they try refusing to answer your calls for periods of time. Then when my wife became so upset the person handling my case lied and said I never called. When confronted with cell phone logs and my own spreadsheet to who, when, where and what time the calls were made and my wife insisted on speaking to a Supervisor then she responded by telling us she would contact us within the week. She responded by denying both claims and would no longer answer her phone.
So this last weekend I once again missed a family reunion that I very much wanted to attend but because McDonald's rather than make sure their employees are taken care of in a situation where even I think NUCO the contractor is responsible hides behind the liability of the Risk Management Group. Their Director of Safety when requesting a typed accident report the following day did not say "no you must go to a doctor provided by Gallagher & Bassett. She agreed with the paramedics that did not know how to handle CO2 poisoning and refused to transport to a hospital that didn't a reputation of removing wrong organs from some of our local customers. It is July and I am getting over pneumonia, bronchitis and double infected ears but do you think McDonald's cares. As long as they don't have to hear about the poor way they take care of injured employees or selling a property to a owner/operator who himself doesn't even know the black mold is riddled throughout the ceiling and walls. Wonder what kind of case he would have if he was to find out that the Dallas Regional Office knowingly and willingly sold him the store with a health hazard that has driven seventy percent of the employees that were there when I was there away due to nose bleeds, newly acquired asthma, bronchitis, etc... The illness that I have when I go to see doctors they will only provide the diagnoses after saying I will not take part in any court proceedings. But they feel I must know that I am an extreme health risk and that the CO2 Gas was more or a carrier which forced spores and remnants of the black mold that infests the ceiling insulation from years of a leaking roof and a cheap money pinching owner who would pay for 55 gallon trash cans rather repair the roof. So what do you do when you passed a very rigid physical by the BNSF Railroad that made you lift extreme weights because you had a history of injured knees? Yet you passed your hearing, your heart and lung exams. Your blood pressure and BMI Index was in the requirements set by the NTSB National Transportation and Safety Board. You leave the railroad because you miss the people you worked with and start coaching your granddaughter in volleyball, then basketball. Then start coaching and conditioning your grandson's football team and take part in running and active drill and exercises on the field. Then in the last few weeks of the football season your inhale the CO2 and Black Mold and within a week you have pneumonia, bronchitis and dizziness. Rising blood pressure and what doctors are telling a diffusion showing in your lungs after looking at old xray compared to the new xrays. Your given five different antibiotic protocols before your rid of this nasty bout of pneumonia and other respritory illnesses. But two weeks later your having blood flush from your nose to the point it covers your hands, shirt and floor and your emplyees and managers are sending you to the doctor. Saying your Samoan and you should be tan but your white and chalky looking. In January still suffering from another bout of pneumonia and respritory illnesses your in the freezer counting inventory and 25 cases of fries weighing 66 pounds each totalling roughly 1650 pounds falls on your back crushing you to the floor. Your in the freezer for 45 minutes getting free and restacking the boxes a teenagers stack poorly. When your walking out the door your met by a manager that catches you wobbling and falling to ground. Not knowing all these issues were just compiling more problems onto other problems you try to work your day until you fall to the floor in a deep sweat and your manager sends you to the doctor. When you reach your doctor they perform an EKG which is in a critical state. They call an ambulance immediately and take you to a hospital who tells you we don't know how to handle this situation. Your in respritory distress but we don't know why and your heart is not performing as it should and it takes two syringes of morphine to slow your heart beat to a point to where it's not trying to explode from your chest. EKG technicians come, shake their heads and leave to get the attending physician but your still in the hall with three other heart patients. That is the sort of thing I have been dealing with and doctors that are telling me its in my head but the article below "Simply Sharon" tells the real truth. You should listen to hear interviews and you will find out that home like my youngest daughters has her whole family sick and suffering from EXTREME MOLD CONDITIONS.
So don't be shy tell me what you think? Am I crazy? Is McDonald's Really More Concerned About Making Money than Taking Care of their Employees. I was onced forced by a owner/operator to take a cast off my broken arm and run the store. What does that tell you?
July 01 WWG_YOUREDGEI want an apology to my daughters and grandchildren This afternoon after helping take care of four kids and running three people to work destinations my daughter Paula brought my wife home from work for me as I stumbled home barely able to breathe and so very tired I could not muster the energy to crawl across the bed to put on my continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine just one of the remnants left to me after my exposure to CO2 Gas and what I have been diagnosed as an exposure to Black Mold. These effects are so subtle but take so much from you that those of you who know me will understand that I am in a living hell to a certain degree in regards to my health. Today my daughter woke me up with a hug and me nearly in a comatose state telling her I hope I love her. See Paula is my perfect little girl and has been ever since I met and married Rosetta. Those who have children or have raised children will respect my sentiments in regards to a child that actually listens and learns from what you teach and tell them. So much so, that they keep their love for you, when you are at your weakest whether that be an addiction or failing at providing for them and being there for them. All MY daughters have heart and compassion a trait that I learned at my church. In my life compassion was a difficult thing to get a grasp on because we were taught to help others but it always seemed it came with a price tag. So as I raised my children and especially Paula I wanted to teach her to love with compassion but not at the risk of being taken advantage of if possible. It's so very hard to provide compassion without being taken advantage of whether it is family or strangers, and actually strangers show more grace and thankfulness when it comes to gifts of compassion. Now that my health is somewhat any where near where I want it. I struggle to be able to have enough energy to hold my daughters and tell them that I love them. They know I love them because we told them the importance of telling each other we loved each other, and came to realize just how important that was when Christi passed away from her accident. But today was different in a way that is hard to explain because my mind was awake and excited that Paula was there and hugging me and asking me if I was alright, but my body would not allow me to wake up as I wanted. My mind was felt as though it had no capability to move the entire time she was here with me all I could do is raise my hand over my shoulder to touch hers. But did I or was my mind giving me these images and my inability make myself wake up was just a dream. In my mind I was slamming my hand to the mattress trying to force myself to wake up and hold my little girl and let her know she has a father that can take care of her every need. Instead what she got was a shell of a man that was once her father the man that could be there to pick her up when she fell, or just hold her and let her cry. Nobody wants responsibility of my injuries I cannot find a lawyer that wants to take on the case because they would actually have to work for their money. But that wouldn't matter if I could just get up breathe deeply and be able to walk and move without pain. In this state what am I but a shell that cannot take part in affairs of my grandchildren, do yard work hell there were years I averaged fishing 200 days a year. Now I cannot last a day helping a Nursing Home bait hooks for just five hours. So will my daughter Paula forgive me for not coming to life when she came to me. I already know that she will but why should she have too when it is not my fault nor hers. Eleven years you work for a company and they throw you out like waste water while smiling and taking a deep breath that they have no liability? There Human Resource Director who called you when you were to busy to talk to her when you were working now doesn't take sixteen phone calls, if not only to explain how and why McDonald's is terminating you after being injured on the job? So my rant is done and anyone out there in the BCC header that has the guts to speak up from McDonald's apologize to my perfect daughter Paula and my nearly perfect daughter Pamela and my grandchildren. You know who you all are and that does not mean the guy that got me hired into the corporation either. You corporate want to be Fortune 500 executives better hope karma doesn't exist because I am praying that maybe just a little payback is due. If you don't want to apologize by email apologize at my blog site located at http://youredge.wordpress.com/ that replicates itself to a dozen other blog sites and is a registered RSS feed. Well go ahead belly up to the bar and let my family know how you feel for them not having a father or grandfather that can work, breathe or hold them. When I started working for McDonald's I won an award and it was called the "Silver Hat" and everyone was yelling speech, speech. My comment was I was proud to work for McDonald's because where else could I work where I could learn to teach blue collar high school educated people to be proud of where they worked. To change their lives and better the live of their families but in the end it was all a lie. Now McDonald's wants those pretty iconic people that "look good for the company" better fit, better, better educated and pretty much looking like your new buildings plastic and trying to look like a restaurant. http://youredge.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514316295 http://www.myspace.com/youredge http://youredge.secondbrain.com/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/buttons.php May 08 DSLReports
April 26 MetLife Better Count their ChickiesWe got the bad news today that MetLife has denied my disability because I am not mentally suicidal. The whole letter is a diatribe of useless information. The note the fact that most of my loss of mental faculties was from the CO2 accident which happened to me at work. Thus admitting that I was once again injured at work, which their consorts Gallagher & Bassett a Risk Management Company Employed by McDonald's said the accident could not have had any effect on my inability to stay healthy after the accident.Rosetta and I had a feeling something was up so I started contacting my party’s congress members and senators. To my fortune again Congresswoman Kay Granger answered my email but said she currently didn’t set on a committee that could investigate but finding credence in my complaint. She passed the information to Texas Senator Jane Nelson who does set on so many committees I cannot even begin to type them all to this blog entry. Within twelve hours of receiving the letter one of Senator Nelson’s Assistant’s contacted me via voicemail to tell me they too felt MetLife had some explanation in holding my disability income from me since January 20th. Senator Nelson’s Assistant went on to say that an immediate investigation of MetLife not providing my disability would be investigated at the senatorial level of business. The letter that describes the reasoning has been read by several of my family members and each says the say in one part of the letter that for instance it’s my orthopedic issues that is causing me not to work but my family physician stated that the stress of this medical scenario has me disabled cause my arthritis is attacking my joints, a known response to high levels of stress and depression. These facts I do agree with because as anyone that knows me will tell you I work hurt and sick regardless of my health I report to work. Then later toward the end of the letter they say I have no orthopedic issues keeping me from working. It’s a menagerie of twisting medical records to meet their means and not their paying customers. So it is my hope that folk’s whole would rather tow the company line and waddling and swindling folks to better the bottom line so be it. This all over a sum five thousand dollars which chump change for MetLife that spends millions on a golf tournament here in Fort Worth every single year. In closing their holding my
payments back has kept us from paying house payments, utilities and other
things. We took care of a child for the state all for nothing all while this
was going on. The good do finish last unless they vote and contact the people
they vote for who are in office.
April 24 Beware of Disability Insurance Companies Who Bare Nothing But Excuses and Lawyers Crouched Over a Disclosure of Rules(rough draft) Name: Diane Eirich Organization Name/Dept: Disability Case Manager CC: I:/documents/metlife 4 24 08 Phone: (800) 638-2242 Fax: Number: (866) 690-1264 Please be advised after telling our personal injury lawyer (Greg Russell) about my issues with the MetLife Disability Insurance and my current status of my State of Texas Disability Claim, he said that if you can get the backing of an elected official it can help quite far when trying to get agents to look seriously at your case the first or in my case the second time around. Congresswoman Kay Granger representing the 12th congressional district and since she was a friend of my in-laws he went on several times telling me that was who he would contact. That night I contacted every senator, congressman and assemblyman via email and after two weeks only one envelope arrived. Congresswoman Granger told me in the letter that her background was in education (a fact I didn’t know). She went on to say that anyone at anytime in their lives can make a change, a stand to make themselves better educated and become a dedicated member to society. With her help she helped me secure a twenty-five thousand dollar student loan that I completed the course with excellent grades and the highest honor for the coverage of the Twin Cities Derail which I entered as my final term paper. Documenting never before pictures and recording each move every official made once the accident occurred right in front of us. This time I asked Congresswoman Granger for some additional help as I made her aware of what happened to me October 17th, 2006 in regards to being exposed to 300-400 pounds of CO2 gas and nearly dying. Going onto to tell her I passed the very difficult NTSB physical in May of 2005. We a timeline showing how my life and well being declined from October to January 5th, 2007 when I collapsed at work then drove myself to the doctors with chest pains where I was immediately sent to an emergency room based on my EKG and an extremely elevated blood pressure. The timeline went on to show the decline with recent diagnoses such severe respiratory illness and severe asthma. Which I responded I was coaching and playing games with my granddaughter for basketball prior to the exposure. Additionally to my job I was coaching my grandson’s White Settlements Senior Black Youth Football Team. That until the exposure as I ended up with pneumonia two weeks later and severe bronchitis. My family physician was perplexed cause the other issues I was having such issues as usually I come in twice a year for knee swelling. Diagnosis and diagnosis we getting worse as my wife started complaining I was keeping her awake snoring something I never did before we were married. Now Dr. George Kostohryz a sinus specialist noted my sinus cavity looked like hamburger and sent me to his colleague Dr. Tahir Ali who said that some healing was taking place but at least currently there was no cancer. This is where I started to become very concerned I am an outdoors person I play sports, play with my grandkids go fishing twice a week with my son-in-law. Now my oxygen level requires I use an in home nebulizer and after testing at a sleep center they found I now needed CPAP machine to now deal with my Sleep Apnea. Then I was diagnosed with Organic Brain Syndrome just after I started fainting and blacking out just about anywhere home or at the movies it didn’t matter. My wife found a Occupational Specialist who with every word he said “off the record” and “I will not take part in any legal proceedings”. At this point my breathing has gotten so bad that I cannot tolerate air outside and cannot get around the house. Now I am in a motorized wheelchair so I could save energy to make my doctor appointments with the use of a walker that was provided for me as well. At this point MetLife begins paying me my disability but has a habit of sending the physicians letter requesting records and such, but I would receive this letter only after the date had already passed. And I was immediately concerned because my doctors clinic literally puts through a thousand patients per day or at least it seems like it during the flu season. At this point we have lost a home because of a six month requirement MetLife and other providers require you be out sick six months prior to receiving benefits. The record request continue to cause problems as MetLife would request records my doctor wouldn't have because of my emergency rooms visits. This would require we pay fifth teen or twenty dollars myself with my income and my wives reduced income from forty-five thousand to twenty-six thousand a year and we are taking care of my mother and a baby my niece basically abandoned on us.
The request being sent to clinics that are busting at the seems from an insurance company that your caseworker your told is on vacation on several of your documentation turn-in days. On one of these days I am asked by a MetLife Customer Service Supervisor could speak to about why I am calling my caseworker directly as it is a violation of corporation rules. Stating that if I call my agent directly she can say anything she wants about my account and I am unprotected in doing what I was told by my case worker who I think was only really trying to help. Because of the fact that not one doctor in the Dallas/Fort Worth had really experiences with both natural and chemical toxins in the air explained to me. Because of the way McDonald’s and MetLife handled the situation first stating that I wasn’t hurt but in fact was crazy and it was something I simply had to get used to with my new illnesses. At this point I went to visit a friend in Canada where my doctor said the “real” clean air up there in Canada would help me but did not help when I got overheated. While helping my friends mow the yard before Hockey Night, I was raking up grass clumps and the next thing I knew I had some very cold water poured into my face. From this point forward I had a sore hip and then after returning home I found that this simple fall into heavy grass broke the tip of the hip bone off but not to worry about the bone. The broken piece I have been told will be fine and not to worry about it the pain should be diminished within four to six weeks and I was provided enough pain medication to last that period that doesn't work. The medical issues continued on but it is primarily compounding blood pressure, anxiety and hypertension being what was helping me stay in a state where now I my lower back from being forced to use the motorized wheelchair full time. This would save my energy which would could be used to walk into doctors offices like Dr. Chunduri. Dr. Speaker for an upcoming appointment with Dr. Chunduri not to take my pain medications after dinner the night and nothing until you leave. What Dr. Chunduri found out was that without medications I take for pain I can barely walk using the strength of my right leg and I have to drag my left leg. He asked me why I had not told him about this before and my sister answered him that I had tried several times but he always cut me off saying “it was all in my head”. As hard as I try MetLife actually requested information about my case Dr. Speaker called the MetLife State of Texas Board Certified physician minutes later in our presence (Jim & Rosetta Bess).
At this point the physician that called Dr. Speaker without returning her request for a call back summarized a me as ready to go back to work. My legs cramping and twisting while sitting in the motorized wheelchair she told the agents “He Can’t Walk, He’s Sitting Right here in front of me” MetLife’s line response team that there was absolutely nothing they could do but allow the appeal department. In speaking to Diane Eirich my case worker she told me my appeal decision date was April 28,2008 so I had contacted my mortgage company they were waiting for this date to come like me. But On this day I received a letter stating that they have requested additional records because Dr. Speaker and Dr. Chunduri more concerned about my worsening conditioned referred me to the Ben Hogan’s Pain Management, Pain Specialist Dr. Paul A. Grant with one brief look at my MRI’s determined I needed three Epidurals to relieve the damage and begin to heal the area’s that I was getting enormous amounts of pain. The first epidural was the worst experience in my whole life but afterwards I was able to walk without the wheelchair without the aid of the motorized wheelchair. Please excuse the length of the letter but Congresswoman Kay Granger since you don’t know me as she has got to in the past. I am a church going, got fearing person that has worked since age ten and I feel I deserve a fair shake. MetLife has postponed the appeal hearing for another 45 days and my lawyer say’s it is a typical technique this insurance company like many others “is simply trying to starve me and my family out”. This practice I feel is something that should be brought to the lawmakers of the state to protect people like me that I have worked since ten years old. Paid my all taxes and only drew unemployment benefits two different times. What I would like to know from, you State Senator Jane Nelson is if you like Congresswoman Kay Granger are fed up with the way these insurance companies collect our money for ten, fifth teen or twenty years and when the time comes your jumping through hoops to get what should come as easily as customers that enjoy AFLAC. Looking at your record I see you have drafted nearly twenty-five bills that goes to the heart of the matter and that’s finding companies that will provide affordable insurance for what the general public can pay for. But State Senator Jane Nelson what good do any of those bills do when you have these companies hovering over their rule books just looking to disqualify you for the slightest infraction. The last document I received was exactly on the April 18, 2008 the day my appeal hearing decision was to take place. Instead they have delayed my ability to pay my house payment once again. Our Mortgager Longtide Homes has been helping by understanding the situation and now MetLife make me and my wife look like liars. As I said I received a voicemail several weeks ago from Congresswoman Granger’s assistant said she would hand deliver this request to State Senator Jane Nelson’s Offices for your review. Best Regards, James & Rosetta Bess - Keeping and Losing our Home Depends on You, State Senator Jane Nelson ttp://www.facebook.com/home.php http://www.myspace.com/youredge http://wwgyouredge.spaces.live.com/ http://youredge.wordpress.com/ April 19 Kelsey Shelton Smith-BriggsKelsey Shelton Smith-Briggs (Oklahoma City, 28 December 2002 - Meeker, Oklahoma, 11 October 2005) was a child abuse victim. She died at the home of her mother, Raye Dawn Smith, and her stepfather, Michael Lee Porter. Evidence indicated that Kelsey died from a blow to the abdomen. In the final months of her life she had suffered at various times a broken collarbone, broken legs, and bruises on her face and body. However, while the injuries were not confirmed to be the result of abuse, her case was watched closely by authorities, including the courts. Her biological father, Lance Briggs, was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia awaiting separation papers when she died. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWow42TCwzg MySpace Doesn't allow Flash Player Videos for some reason wake up MSN....
To Michael Lee Porter and anyone who would defend a lowly piece of trash that's only purpose on this earth to me was simply true evil. May God have grace on your family but may he burn your life eternally in hell. It is said in the bible that you should turn the other cheek. But it is also said that only the good die young and I hope you live a thousand lifetimes of the brutal cruelty you inflicted on this you beautiful child. There is never a time or place that any child should be treated as you treated this child. If any readers know where you Micheal Lee Porter incarcerated I feel letters to inmates of that facility should be made aware of his crime, along with pictures of this little angel that did nothing too him. Those who may be weary of this material as being true can visit http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/briggs.asp to find the facts.
Let's not forget Judge Craig Key who after seeing that this young girl suffered two (2) broken legs awarded her back to her maternal mother and Michael Lee Porter. May God blemish your memory with this judgement sir. You could not determine responsibility in a world where Child Protection Services will swipe your child for you spanking them and leaving a mark. Your a coward and may you live a coward's life. Numbers 6:23 (KJV) Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, (KJV) April 03 MySpace.com - Jim - 44 - Male - FORT WORTH, US - www.myspace.com/youredge
Hey everyone just a short invitation to two of my social sites I have been working on and if you don't belong try to make a point to join. Click the links below and come have a little fun. The www.WordPress.com site will a bit more serious as I will be photography pages something a bit more extreme than family pictures. The addition of an Outdoor page since we have so many Outdoor Guy's that have continued to request a page like this in the upcoming weeks it will be there for them to come and report stories of big game, low land hunting or fishing trips along with pictures. http://www.myspace.com/youredge http://wwgyouredge.spaces.live.com/ March 29 Apologies EveryonePlease accept my apologies everyone on XBOX Live as I have not been able to show up for
our scheduled gaming due to some connection problems. Thursday night everything was great
after several nights of a drop off of connection speed at 9:30 PM (CMT). So I told my broadband
provider everything was fixed after placing a call.
However, Friday and Saturday you can see how my connection was and I could not even sign on
to XBOX Live. I am sure they will have it up and going again, they have been a first rate company
especially when you call for support.
See Ya All Soon!!
Jim Bess
March 24 Speakeasy - Speed TestPerhaps one of the best tools to have when you have a broadband connection is a reliable and consistently reporting testing source. www.dslreports.com is great but many, many time is so overloaded with visitors and such your speed tests can vary on that site. I use Speakeasy because when you bring up the tester it gives a number of different places you can ping your speed test from giving you a more consistent way to track your speed. Traditionally I track all the cities provided and now have an average my service should be providing since it is wireless. They have done a great job at CIT Broadband bringing me the capability to meet the speeds they sold in the beginning of the contract. March 07 OUT OF THE SADDLEAlright all your gamers and fellow friends of the internet after numerous invites to social networks I am using the following www.twitter.com which will tie directly to Myspace or Face Book as well. Still working on the MySpace contact interface but should have it down within a few days. That way when you leave a message there I will get it! Or just join twitter and you can send me a message anytime your online or need me to call. Got my first epidural in my back the other day and though it was painful I AM OUT OF MY MOTORIZED WHEEL CHAIR THAT I HAVE BEEN IN THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS. But I could use some help with MetLife from anyone that knows my work habits Jim, Nicky, Neil, Mark, Clay, etc... a simple fax to MetLife anytime today or within the next four days will help me get my temporary disability back and be able to save my house. Continually having to fight these people has neared me to two different heart attacks episodes and after paying these people for eleven years it's a travesty. Looking to hearing from some of you folks that have forgotten who I am just cause I got tired of explaining why I was in a wheelchair. It's not easy telling the best of your friends things like that.... Name: Diane Eirich Organization Name/Dept: Disability Case Manager CC: Phone: (800) 638-2242 Fax: Number: (866) 690-1264 Best Regards, Jim Bess/Youredge
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