Hi Robert,

I can totally understand where you are coming from. My background is a bit different - I have a caring, loving husband and 2 teenagers (who are a pain in the butt but basically very good kids). But I have started thinking of suicide often also. Like so many others, I have RSD because of multiple doc errors. But my attorney claims there is no malpractice case. (In RI you never know if that is really the truth, or if the attorney and your doctor are golf partners...) As my disease progresses, if (when?) I am unable to work, my family is going to loose my income and their health insurance coverage (I am WC - the amount they pay is not nearly enough to cover what I now provide). I am tired of fighting WC for everything that I deserve- the meds, the PT, the docs, the procedures, etc. Plus my head hurts most of the time. If there is no way to sue the people who did this to me, I don't know how my family will replace the income and related benefits that I expected to make over the next 20 years.

I am starting to conclude that I am better off dead. My life insurance will at least take care of my family's needs so they will be afford health insurance, pay for our home, and my kids can still go to college. It's too bad that this is what it comes down to. But imagine how happy my WC adjuster will be!! This is what they aspire to - make them nuts enough so they go away for good!!