‘I CAN’T REMEMBER THE LAST SIX MONTHS’ SAYS DREW NOYES
“Unable to work since Sept 16 because a 3 foot 30 lb steel rod snapped on a chain and flung into my forehead, nose and teeth at Home Depot while checking lumber as instructed by 2 store employees.
This recording Home Depot employee seems to say the injury to me “was the worst he has seen” and he never saw anything like what happened to you (me)….it has happened many other times in other of the hundreds of Home
He also says employees were prohibited by Home Depot policy to take me to the hospital. Instead, he called a nearby Urgent Care Clinic and gave me driving instruction to it. I did.
That clinic told me they must direct me to the emergency hospital because of concussion stating I urgently needed medical care for my face and a CAT scan- not an X-Ray as the Home Depot guy told them on the phone – for possible injury my brain.
This detour in the opposite direction from the hospital cost me valuable time. My body was almost completely drained
After a few minutes I pulled off the highway and made a video dying declaration just in case. Then drove very, very slowly.
When I stumbled into the Regional Hospital Emergency Room the attending immediately put me in a wheelchair pushed me ahead of other patients directly to a hospital room for CAT scans and to clean and close facial lacerations.
On the 27th my doctor told me my concussion caused my poor equilibrium, lethargy, fatigue, confusion, headaches and memory loss which may return in months and in a rare case never return”.