{"id":3103,"date":"2019-10-07T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2019-10-07T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:00:06","slug":"help-me-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"\u2018HELP ME, PLEASE\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Accident victim <\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Barrington Flemming<\/strong> &#8211; Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cI am in constant pain. It is difficult to move around and whenever I see like it\u2019s going to rain, I start to be afraid; I fret because the metal in my left foot attracts lightning. I try to cover it but sometimes it still affect me. So, when the lightning shock mi; mi wet myself; mi cry all the time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the reality of 37-year-old Springfield, St. James\nresident, Miguel McKenzie, who is popularly known as \u2018Nose\u2019, a former bus\nconductor, who has, for the past two years, been battling intense pain; and\nstruggles to be mobile. This is as a result of a motor vehicle accident which\nleft him with a broken right hip and left leg, forcing him to be ambling around\nin a wheelchair. He is unable to work and has resorted to begging to get money\nto take care of himself &#8211; something he does not like doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McKenzie, who was in pain when he spoke, recounts the\nfrightening ordeal that almost cost him his life and left him with limited\nmovement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HORROR RELIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was working on a Kingston coaster bus that ply the\nMontego Bay to Kingston route; so on May 31, 2017, it was raining and when the\nbus reached the Burwood Beach area (near Falmouth, Trelawny), the driver lost\ncontrol of the vehicle \u2013 and it seem like him go too near the banking and pick\nup a skid and the bus overturn and fell into a gully, roll and drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy left leg drop between the door and brake. A feel some\npain and the passenger dem panic because smoke was coming from the engine and\nthey trample me and broke my right hip bone.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McKenzie recalls that despite the fact he was being wracked\nby excruciating pain, he still had the presence of mind to move his upper body\nout of the way; a move which saved his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDi passenger dem a stamp all over mi so mi push me head\nunder one a di seat dem fi protect miself. If I did not do that, I would be a\ndead man, because they would crush mi head,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was taken to the Falmouth General Hospital where he had\nto wait for two months before surgeries were carried out on the hip and left\nleg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They did surgery on the hip and sent him home. Eventually,\nsurgery was done on the left leg, where a metallic plate was implanted. But\nMcKenzie said the implant was not strong enough and it broke, (as&nbsp; was revealed by an X-Ray).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LIGHTNING STRIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is seriously affecting me right now and when time cold,\nmi feel severe pain. Whenever it rain, I get a big, thick blanket, long socks\nand long pants fi protect the foot from lightning and pray. Is three lightning\nshock me in September. The last time was September 29 and mi wet myself.&nbsp; I was so embarrassed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He now needs an operation to have that implant removed and\nreplaced but according to McKenzie, he has been told at the Cornwall Regional Hospital\nthat the operation cannot be done there now and he needs to try a private\nmedical facility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, he visited the Montego Bay Hospital at Mt. Salem\nadjacent to the CRH, where Dr. Suman Vemu told him that he has left femur\nnon-union with failed fixation and needs to undergo a medical procedure which\nincludes implant removal, orif with lock nail and bone grafting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hospital fee and cost for the procedure is put at $1.35\nmillion and he does not have the money to pay for the procedure. So, he is\nasking for any help he can get. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI really need to have this operation done so that I can get\nback on my feet and work again. Mi love to work, but now a beg mi a beg and\npeople a embarrass me.&nbsp; It pain mi heart\nfi 2 year and three month mi caan work and so I depend on the mercy of others\nand the members of the Springfield Welcome Hall Seventh Day Adventist Church.\nPlease, I need your help,\u201d he pleads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends have to help him move around so he desperately needs\nassistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McKenzie said the Operator of the bus, who he worked with\nfor just over a month, has totally neglected him. He neither sees nor has he\nheard from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accident victim Barrington Flemming &#8211; Staff Reporter \u201cI am in constant pain. It is difficult to move around and whenever I see like it\u2019s going to rain, I start to be afraid; I fret because the metal in my left foot attracts lightning. I try to cover it but sometimes it still affect me. 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