GHamm

I’m sorry, I need to vent for a minute. This has been rough learning an entire year of nothing happening with the Slater cases, of which I am one. I thought financial help with this case could help me through my elderly years, because it’s obvious to me I will never let this go. I have my good days and bad days, unfortunately, being part of this case removed most of those ‘good days’. It took me nearly a year to get everything together, fill out my questionnaire, and get it in. I would have to work weekends on it because of how badly it affected my work day and my daily life. After adding the case to my life a few days were hitting me particularly bad. I would sit in my back yard holding a hose, sitting in a chair watering the same spot of grass for hours at a time and crying. One day I was out there all day and the neighbors started getting worried. I thought this part of my sadness was done with. I learned that all of those times in life my throat closing up was anxiety. In the last few years, hard anxiety attacks were now taking me to the hospital a number of times to make sure I wasn’t about to check out. The night the abuse started I walked home with a tinnitus ringing loud in my left ear. This loud ringing stayed with me for two decades. By the end of my 20s, the ringing had subsided . But within months of deciding to enter this case the ear ringing came back strong. Hearing this ringing again really isn’t worth any of this. But I’m not financially stable, I need help. I attribute these poor financial abilities to the abuse directly. Prior to the abuse I was an excellent student, straight A’s, an eagerness to learn, happy, sports, friends, but after the abuse that was gone. The abuse destroyed who I was and what I was to become. At the beginning of last year, my questionnaire and everything was turned into Slater (a few months before the pause). After a few months of finishing the questionnaire I inquired about updates and was told there was none. Every few months I asked about updates and again there were none. Knowing there was a pause, they said nothing. I somewhat understand that part. But have they even found a mediator?? Have they even started vetting a single one of these 14000 cases????? I didn’t think about how long this case was going to be and now there’s going to be another stranger I have to spill my guts to. I don’t really have a question I think I just want to keep thanking all of you with everything I am. You’re the only ones that have truly helped my mind and my heart during this case. I honestly don’t think any of us can truly let anything go. I think people are just better at ignoring things? I’ve met a lot of abuse survivors and a lot of them could hide things so well. I can’t seem to do that. I’m so broken I don’t know what to do. I want a vacation from myself but that doesn’t exist. I tried medication and it made things worse. I tried talking to doctors, it made it worse. I had one doctor laugh at me and say you’re a big boy, you’ll be fine, slapped me on the back and prescribed me meds?? I mainly spent Saturday afternoons working on my case, so then I could be emotional appropriate for work on Monday morning. This is off topic but one of the days I was sitting there on the back porch working on my case, I was staring off into the backyard. I saw two hummingbirds flying straight at each other and the second they got super close to one another they did this tight spiral together straight up into the sky I thought I was seeing things and then it happened again that day. I don’t know if that’s some kind of mating ritual or what that is but I thought that was really neat. Goodnight everyone, bless you all.

Through an email to the settlement trust asking for any sort of update on my case, in the beginning of July I was told it was ‘under review’. It’s now going on a half of a year in review. Does this seem normal under the circumstances?

I’m not 100% sure but what I’ve seen from internet articles, Illinois a few years back opened it to 100% as well or am I mistaken?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/boy-scouts-246-billion-bankruptcy-settlement-draws-appeals-insurers-abuse-2022-09-22/

Thank you everyone! Everything’s ok with my vote. Lawyer got back to me right away. Omni hasn’t and that’s fine but I submitted the question to their online bsa section. I still would like them to reach out to me though. I wish all of you nothing but happiness and fulfillment in life. It’s okay to have bad days, as long as there is at least one good one. That day came to me in the form of my wife. I don’t know, without this person’s compassion and understanding I would still be completely broken and lost.

I want to say thank you to everybody in this forum, you guys have helped with some really tough days in the last year and a half. Today wasn’t great to begin with and then I’m looking over my e-receipt from the vote and I don’t understand this. My first page of the receipt has the first two checked and the last two unchecked. This is how I voted. Not the opt out or the $3500. But on page two it appears that I am going along with the $3500 opt. Which I didn’t. Am I reading this wrong? I’ve emailed my lawyer and even shot the question to Omni, but no response yet.