Brian Porath:  

CLASS OF 1973
Lincoln High SchoolClass of 1973
Portland, OR

Brian's Story

Life Hi Everyone: I am currently in a V.A.Nursing Home in Vancouver,Wa The dogs in the pound have it better than I do. If you what a job sitting on your butt 1/2 the day,Then get your self a C.N.A. licence I think it takes 3 weeks of school and you can make about $17.00 an hour. Not much money but you get all the holidays off and good great benefits and you can call in sick as much as you like. I've been here 16 months,A third of the time I could not get out of bed. Now I roll myself on a gurney waiting for my ass to heal. The wound care nurse is as dumb as they come. One day she was putting my bandage on, She looked around and said "there they are" she was looking for the scissors that were in here fingers. I guess that's what I get for being just as stupid. In 1977 I was mad at my sister took off speeding in car- the road turned and I didn't. Drove off a ten foot embankment into somebody's pasture. It was dark and I couldn't see what was untop of me, so I spend the night there. In the morning from what a friend told me,They had put a blanket over me and thought that I was dead. Well they were half right I had broke my back and had no feeling from my armpits down. So on July 1st I'll celebrate my 30th year in a wheelchair. But that...Expand for more
hasn't stopped me from doing anything. I will still go camping and fishing. I should say, I take a pole to a river or lake and most of the time I'm untangling my line. My younger years I was pretty athletic. I won 2 Gold Medals in swimming in the Paralyzed Veterans of America Olympics New York 2001. I guess it wasn't that long ago, but the last 4 years I've been in the hospital or nursing homes. I plan to sue one of the nursing homes because they broke my leg as well as one of my knee caps. Moving my leg around is a lot harder now. Another nursing home did not turn me at night and during the day I was on a a bad cushion (thanks to the Seattle V.A. Hospital) that gave me a bed sore. The wound care nurse was dumber than the one I got here She watched the sore on my butt get bigger and bigger until it was a couple of inches deep and the same around. So I plan to sue them too. Then there's the BIG law suit. The last 4 yrs of my life has been like I've been in prison. So I'plan to sue the V.A. in Seattle for malpractice for a hole they let develop. What started as a small scratch became an unbelievably deep hole that was 4 fingers deep (almost to my ribs) that took over 10 months in bed to heal. SO ANYONE KNOW OF A GOOD LAWYER BRIAN
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