I don't understand why that matters. How you feel about it is irrelevant to the legal aspects. Either you have a case or you don't. Why does it matter whether you have inner peace about it? Please explain. I'm missing something.
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@CMIH -- The beginning of my experience with severe tinnitus (and much more), began with taking a single dose of a medication given to me at the ER, causing severe brain and neurological trauma. The extreme physical assault on my system, accompanied by the indifference from those who caused it filled me with a rage I'd never before experienced.
Whenever I began to think about taking legal action against them, and creating a compilation of all the things that I felt they were negligent on, I noticed it felt like pouring jet fuel on my already unprecendented internal rage. I soon realized that I had a
huge choice to make: Either learn to let go of this in a major way, or let it literally consume me, perhaps even for the rest of my days.
I felt if I did the latter, it would not only literally destroy my life, but would greatly affect those around me as well in a very negative way. I look at anger (and especially rage) as being almost infectious. And I realized that if those around me became affected by my extreme anger and resentments, those effects would then come back and rebound to me. -- BTW, politicians seem to know about the infectious nature of anger as well, and often use it to rile up their constituents to foster a ridiculous kind of allegiance from them.
Now--a year later--I'm again looking at whether to puruse legal action against those responsible for giving me such an unnecessary and dangerous medication. At this time however, whenever I begin to think about it, it doesn't fill me with the anger and rage I felt a year ago. So it feels far safer for myself (and my wife) to seriously consider it at this time.
However, I've changed my perspective on what I'd hope to accomplish. At first, I thought mostly in terms of getting some kind of financial settlement. But I believe the odds would be against me on that. What is more likely to be gained is forcing them to look at their culpability, and force them to change their policies on how they treat other patients going forward. And if I could do that, then the effort might be worth it.
If you're interested in some indpeth perspectives on my own situation, I made a couple of somewhat lengthy posts about my story at the following links (below). The first link especially will take you to a discussion on forgiveness you might find interesting. -- Let me know if you have any other questions.
Just to mention, you have my greatest sympathies. It appears your experience has also led to significant brain and neurological trauma, and I feel I can understand much of what you're experiencing, including the rage and anger. Which is why I've been following this thread on your ongoing ordeal. It took me at least a year to mostly let go of mine, even after I resolved it was so important for me to do so. -- I feel this process of letting go of my intense emotions has also contributed to my severe tinnitus feeling somewhat less intrusive.
Coming to the realization I had to let go of my all-consuming anger and rage was a turning point for me, and today feel so grateful I chose that path instead of choosing one of immediately trying to tap into our legal system for a recourse. I was in such a fragile (and almost erratic) state at the time, that I truly think it would have done me in had I done so. -- But that's just the course I took based on my own circumstances. Everybody will have to make their own choices based on their own circumstances. But I do think entering into any kind of legal arbitration is best done when we're not being overly affected by our own emotions.
Take care, and all the best to you!
How Do You Find Forgiveness When Your Tinnitus Was Caused by Another Person/Source?
From Active Sufferance to Passive Sufferance
P.S. You also might want to check out @Greg Sacramento's story. He suffered even (much) greater damage from a single dental visit than what either you or I experienced. And he seems to have maintained a sense of equanimity (and grace) in spite of it all.
I wonder if the Prednisone maybe just slowed down some natural process that is now resuming because the steroid level is going down? And if so, what is that process? What is happening in my ears??? 
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All this damage in the space of ten minutes or so in a dentist chair. I still can't believe it happened. I could hear clearly before that.
