My question involves injury or loss that occurred in the state of: PA
Date of occurrence= October 31'st, 2008.
A little over a year ago I had been shot in the eye with a paintball gun. It was Halloween night, many people were up to no good. Some guys truck had been hit with some corn and he went to the nearest group of people. He and his nephew were dressed in camouflage with their paintball guns. They parked there vehicle over the hill and snuck up behind me and my friends (we were sitting on a hillside). I heard someone behind us and stood up, at that point, they opened fire on me, hitting me in the eye and two other kids.
I went home and got a ride to the hospital. I was blinde, could not see anything out of my right eye. The first hospital i was at did not have the specialists on hand so i had to be transported to another hospital. I eventually got out of the ER with the diagnosis of an eye hyphema with possible retna damage. I was ordered to have visits for a week every other day to the hospital. The specialists said i could not move around except to use the restroom. I had to stay in bedrest at an incline to allow the blood floating around in my eye to settle to the bottom and to be re absorbed into my blood stream. I did file a police report, they guy did get a fine so it is on record he is at fault. During this time I could not attend school (Penn State for Electrical Mechanical Engineering). I missed 6 weeks of school. In the end i was forced to medically withdrawl because i could not attend many required labs. In short, I am not attending a community college. I still owe penn state several grand for nothing. During my down time I also went from 150lbs down to 118 lbs due to me being inactive (Not weight lifting, was into bodybuilding).
I am 21 years old and this is a very new area to me. I need some kind of compensation to get me out of this rut. Two weeks ago i went to a fallow up appointment at an eye specialists. I still have "gremlins" in my right eye which explains my current right eye "eye floaters" (random blobs of blurriness floating across my vision) I am also at a high risk for glaucoma and cataracts, i have go to an eye specialist every 6 months for the rest of my life.
I have until october to file something and I need to do something about it. I am in a deficit from this event not to mention future life problems down the road. I really have no idea what to do. I have contacted some lawyers with very little luck. They said this is on a smaller scale (small claims) and not worth THEIR time.
Please help point me in the right direction. All help is very appreciated.
Thanks

