Case Summary  |  MVA Fractured Kneecap

I have been a nurse for 20 years now, working full time at at least 1 job. More times than not 2 or more jobs for the entire 20 years. I've had health insurance some of that time, but most of that time it wasn't offered by my employers.
In 2001 I was in a very serious car accident and my right kneecap was fractured into three pieces. At the time I was working at a nursing home in California and luckily was covered by insurance, My kneecap was repaired but I was still laid up for close to a year, and then went back to work. I was supposed to return to the same surgeon a year later and have the pins and wires in my kneecap removed.
Unfortunately, when I returned to the same nursing home a year later, they no longer offered health insurance. So the surgery was not done. I moved on to other employers but none of them offered insurance either.
So now it is 8 years later. I now have moved to Arizona and am employed at a state run facility and have insurance. So I am checking into finally having the pins and wires removed, and hopefully the condition won't be excluded because of a pre-existing problem.