Ya know, I ain't a suing type usually, but my wife got injured today... [View All]

As most of you know my wife has parkinson's and has been laid up this last month. Depression setting in from days in bed, etc, so I sent her packing to California to spend time with her family this holiday season. She was quite happy to be able to go and see old friends and family, and get away from the gray winter blahs of Ohio. And they will take good care of her there.

So this morning I dropped her and my daughter off at the airport. She makes it to Chicago and calls me.

As she was walking down the tarmac to the plane she slipped in some water there (no signs). She has issues at times with walking, but not very much. Anyway, she went flying and cut open her head and bruised her leg before boarding.

She gets to Chicago and tells the American Airlines guy at the counter what happened, and he just shrugged.

Now I know what damage a slip like that can do, it messed up my neck and back, though I did not know it at the time it occurred.

She is on a plane to LAX as I type this, and I am worried about her. Why didn't they offer her any medical care? A fellow passenger helped her onto the plane after she fell. AA did jack shit.

She didn't want to hang around in Chicago for xrays and such, would have missed her flight and been all alone in a big city with a little kid and not fully able to care for herself if she gets an episode (with parkinson's, she is ok one minute and not the next at times).

I know accidents happen, but the freaking attitude of the people at AA pisses me off. HELLO! A sick woman traveling with a five year old just got injured and all you can do is shrug???



Sorry, just had to rant.