Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys Profile & Reviews

On January 13th 2025 at 10:45 a.m. in Skowhegan Maine I had OBGYN appointment at the hospital in the OBGYN office with Dr Cook. It was awful the most worst experience of my life I am 43 years old my birthday is September 11th and 1981 and my name is Shawna Blake. I live in Dexter Maine. I have called a lot of malpractice lawyers in the area and they all have said they cannot help me. I should contact a disability lawyer. I did call disability lawyers and they all told me I should have a malpractice lawyer. I’m feeling defeated my case is open and shut my proof my evidence is in black and white I personally feel at this point everyone is just scared or they feel like they are not educated enough to win a solid case against the hospital and a physician. I was assaulted by the OBGYN doctor that day not one thing went wrong but numerous things and I have not been right since. Unfortunately it makes me sick that no one wants to help me and this man is going to get away with it and the hospital is going to allow it. I just think if this happened to my daughter oh my goodness shameful just plain evil. It is rather very disturbing so I am going to explain the circumstances they are quite graphic I am so very sorry that you are in this position to have to hear this and now it is in your brain. I deserve justice. On that day I had an appointment at 10:45 am for an initial first time exam to establish OBGYN services I have not had OBGYN doctor for sometime 2015 to be exact as you know and as I already told you the head of this email it stated I am on disability I do have mental health issues and up until recently I had them under control my diagnosis is are OCD, bipolar to, anxiety, schizoaffective, extreme PTSD. A very long time ago a doctor also diagnosed me with borderline personality disorder. It was so long ago and I can’t remember what doctor or when but I’m presently doing the research to find out when and where like for example I called main care and I did request of information release today. It will take a little while but I also contacted keypro to see if they have further information that might be able to find that out I will be able to backtrack their records to hopefully find the doctor I believe it might have been my first visit to Acadia in Bangor Maine but I am unsure but I will find out and it really never stuck with me because with time I do not know if you are familiar with mental health I didn’t know this but in some cases borderline personality disorder with time and therapies and medications and just growing up and stuff it will or it can go dormant. you never get cured from it. it is like in a little box inside of me contained and under control. Up until now anyhow. Unfortunately. I digress back to what happened I go into the room nervous of course please keep in mind my blood pressure always runs low always has well that day the top number was 130 and that is very high for me and the medical assistant Holly is her name she said that you must be nervous I reply yes very. I am a three-time sexual assault victim / Survivor. With intense PTSD disorder I do understand all women do not enjoy pelvic exams I do not know one woman that actually enjoys them so I’m not saying I’m like special or anything I’m just trying to make the point that like it is really really really hard for me to be able to do stuff like that and especially to have a male doctor the only reason I had a male doctor this time is because my primary doctor Ashley at Hometown Health here in Dexter Maine. Said he was wicked smart and he was a good doctor so I was like okay it’s been a long time and I really felt I have been healing and I have come a very long way with my mental health Journey. I have grown so I will give him a shot. Because you know not all men are bad. I wish I would have went with my gut that day but I didn’t I’m always second guessing myself. I do have my mental health issues but I am not dumb by no means and I stay firm on that. After she took my blood pressure doctor cook came in he said get ready get on the table all that stuff he left the room he comes in I’m on the table he says move down I do. He proceeds to put in the Spectrum the device that is inserted to open you up so you can have the exam. And you never guess what happened it broke I heard pieces hit the floor and everything I was so embarrassed.. He proceeds to make the comment with a laugh and his response was well you can guess you’ve never had any natural birth. Knowing my two children were delivered C-section. Right then and there I felt like where is this man’s head to make such an inappropriate comment regarding the size of my womanly area I felt violated and disgusted instantly and what was with that laugh I did not find that funny at all I was appalled. Knowing in my head I should have stopped the exam I always get intimidated that is nobody’s fault whatsoever it is me. I understand that I have accepted that so I continue with the exam. After the thing broke and that comment he proceeded to go on with the exam it took him three remaining tries to find the right device to fit me and please keep in mind this doctor has 36 years of experience under his belt that confused the crap out of me. I feel I really do feel like he was just trying to make me uncomfortable. why else? Why would something like that with a man with that kind of degree. He must have great experience and qualifications to get a job at a hospital. I continue to go on with the exam stupid Shawna I was telling myself in my head. But I always contradict myself and try to tell myself in my head stop being crazy it’s all right. You will be fine. But then suddenly you would not even believe it there was a stabbing pain the worst pain I have ever felt my whole entire life no joke no exaggeration I screamed I started crying. Holly the medical assistant that was with me looked at me and if her face could speak it said it all she had the look of Horror. After I screamed and started crying he laughs and Chuckles again and commented “did that hurt”. Just completely appalled again I didn’t say a word I was humiliated violated if I move or if I start to get up or if I do anything then what is he going to do scared I was. please keep in mind if you look into my medical file on health info net. It says regular routine swab pap smear. He ended the exam he told me to get up he left the room I got up a so very slowly unbelievably slowly feeling pretty bad about myself. Trying to wrap my brain around it I don’t understand I still don’t understand. I left. I come home I talked to my boyfriend of 11 years I tell him that story and how I was feeling and I couldn’t even walk it was unbearable I don’t even understand I know I say that a lot but I’m serious I really don’t understand Thinking to myself I will never go in for a pap smear ever again my whole entire life never again I will die of cervical cancer before I go back for another appointment. And at that time My pain is starting to get worse thinking to myself this is weird because usually stuff starts to get better and feel better with time but it wasn’t I was having back labor front abdominal pain pain I never had so I call the office OBGYN in Skowhegan back I talked to the secretary I explained I do not feel normal something is wrong. Not trying to think that a doctor that took an oath to Serve and Protect was trying to kill me that’s hard to wrap your brain around. The secretary said his medical assistant will call you back. A little bit later the medical assistant did call I told her what was going on she says I’ll call you back again she did she replies Dr Cook wanted me to tell you that what you are saying just does not make any sense that exam would not give you that amount of pain if you hurt then you need to take Tylenol and ibuprofen for pain and you need to go to the hospital. Please keep in mind I’m thinking a hospital just did this to me. I did not want to take any more abuse . And I would have to have a another exam oh my goodness I start panicking hypoventilating crying. I called my primary care physician Hometown health in Newport they couldn’t get me in they said that they were going to call me back they never did I’m just sitting here thinking how am I going to see a female professional OBGYN because I know for a fact if I went to the hospital it would just be a regular doctor and all they could do for me was give me a referral for a new OBGYN I know would be a couple weeks out. couple more days pass the pain getting worse and worse I’m trying to think how am I going to go see a female OBGYN emergency you know I feel like I’m dying and now at this time I have the front abdominal pain the back labor pain but now my leg hurts going from the top of my hip all the way down to the toes up to the floor and I also have had a headache for 2 days not understanding why because I don’t regularly have headaches. So I’m thinking one day and it dawned on me to call Family Planning so I thought that was a great idea. So I did in Bangor Maine I told the woman the situation the secretary she said oh my goodness you need to come in for an emergency appointment today you probably should have been seen days ago. I go yeah. I know. she was like you can you make it to the Dexter Family Planning office I said can I call you right back I do not have a license I have never had one scared to death to drive. Because I’m the type of person I could not live with myself if I ever hurt anyone. And again I suffer from not trusting myself. So I called my husband he works here in Dexter he said yes definitely. he will get me there. I called them up and I take the 12:00 p.m. appointment the earliest one they had. I go in to that appointment. I’m at the front desk doing the paperwork they go what are the symptoms I said front abdominal pain severe back labor pain. I don’t know if you ever had children but back labor is the worst it was like Contracting. it makes sense now why it was doing that. And also my leg really hurts severely. So anyhow I go into the appointment with the family planning doctor she was so very kind she must have been in her early thirties younger than me I’d say. she goes Shawna you got to have an examination I proceeded to say is it going to hurt she said it shouldn’t hurt it is just a regular pap smear. I go okay so I get undressed I get on the table she goes out of the room and she looks in my patient portal and she comes back in and it says and looks like you had a regular swap pap smear I go nothing about that appointment was routine. She goes okay I’m going to have a look I get on the table she starts to take exam she gets on looking and she goes oh my goodness and I said what panicking she goes I see something hairy I’m like Harry knowing that nothing Harry should be inside of me she goes yeah and she goes I’m going to look further so she proceeded with the exam and she pulled out a huge white material. And it appeared to be a big piece of gauze. it was pressed up against my cervix compacted. By this time if you can imagine I’m freaking trying to keep my cool she was like oh my word and then she continued with the exam and she’s like Shawna you have a big chunk of tissue missing from your cervix. I was in disbelief . well I knew something was wrong but I wasn’t expecting it to be something like that. she concluded her exam she’s like you have a big chunk of tissue missing from your cervix and you have a whole bunch of cuts around your vaginal canal I believe strongly the big tissue that was missing was the stabbing screaming pain I felt and all the little Cuts must have been from when the Spectrum broke. January 13th until January 22nd nine days I had that gauze pad up inside me pressed against my cervix I’m lucky I am not dead if you know anything about toxic shock syndrome can’t believe it and utter and disbelief everything cuz I called him back 2 days later and he didn’t even want to tell me or anything that they was gauze up in me my leg was hurting. And I had a headache I just can’t believe it. I really could have died. thank God my physical pain has passed. It took a long time to pass but I’m better now thank goodness. I healed. I Had a my follow up with the same family planning OBGYN February 3rd to see if I was healing probably and she’s never seen my cervix before so she wanted to make sure that it was due to that injury and it was and she documented it. Let’s talk about my mental health conditions for a moment since this. they are unbelievably awful and I have been doing so well with my mental health Journey to the point I am a SSI recipient and 2 years ago I went back to work. and I work at Dexter Manor Healthcare as a CNA presently my last date of work was October 15th due to a pre- existing shoulder condition from 23 years ago I’m on FMLA right now. I supposed to have surgery for which has now took in the back seat. because I am not mentally well for example I’m not sleeping anymore I’m not really eating everything. my favorite foods I don’t even like them I’m hypervigilant my OCD is beyond bad it is so annoying my psychotherapist has to see me every two weeks to make sure I’m doing all right. Like for example I take enough at night time medication to put a horse to sleep and it’s not even working none of my medication feels like it’s working. it’s just my world has been turned upside down I’m right back where I was 20 years ago with my mental health Journey. To the point it’s so bad I can’t even wrap my mind around going back to work makes me so very sad seriously my mental health used to be so bad when I started receiving SSI and the CE report that the social security psychotherapist that gives you when you apply for Social Security mental health condition they give you a mental health examination with one of their doctors. SSI summary report that I had is sealed and I can’t even get it if I want to read or find out what’s on that report I have to go through my doctor. Currently as this moment I am in the process of switching primary care providers cuz in a month I called Hometown Health Center in Newport 9 times and they did not even return my phone calls but that has nothing to do with this I’m just saying I’m switching primaries I’m waiting on the paperwork as we speak. And as soon as I get my new doctor I will proceed the process of receiving that report from SSI that is sealed . I don’t even know what she diagnosed me with but it’s really bad now . I thought I really was recovering and healing and everything feeling proud of working and all that I am right back to the beginning it’s so bad my bipolar is. I’m losing friends because they say I am so scattered. I’m talking too fast and I’m not the same person I am having a complete personality change. and I do not feel like I am the same person to be honest with you I have changed like a complete different person like say if you were diagnosed with borderline personality disorder 25 years ago and then it went dormant and you got assaulted and for it to come back due to trauma. that doctor ruined my life and everyone says they can’t help me I hope you can help me. I hope I can find someone that will . it is not fair and so wrong he should not be practicing and I did put a complaint in with the hospital they said that they were going to reach back out to me and call me back and they never did so they’re trying to brush this under the rug. I did put in a complaint report 2 the state. I yet have heard anything back from them yet it will probably be a while. I did reach out to disability of main Services because all the malpractice lawyers said that I should have a disability lawyer but at the end of that meeting with disability of Maine the nice man he made a comment and said it sounds like to me you have a open and shut malpractice case. I was like yeah well everyone said I need disability lawyer now a disability lawyer is saying a malpractice lawyer. no one wants to help. Another man going to get away with assaulting me. I can’t believe this is so scary and the hospital is not trying to help me either. and it was a woman I put the complaint in with. I just can’t believe it. And what was with the laughing with the inappropriate comments. So I asked myself did he do this on purpose? And then putting up foreign material up inside me and didn’t even tell me about it and I called back two days later. and he still denied it I could have died and nobody cares I hope you can help. Any questions or concerns please reach out to me my phone number is 207-270-1124. Anytime I’m home all the time now I can’t even leave my house. I am presently trying to get a hold of that Social Security diagnosis sealed document because however I was like that about that long ago I’m right back there so I’m very curious what that diagnosis is. Damage me so much mentally that the little sanity I have left I am down at I have my name in to see if I have a touch of autism. I personally feel like I was profiled because I am on disability because you can tell them mental health patient just by my medication list. And my insurance I’m a main care and Medicaid recipient. I say that and people like no Shawna you’re crazy blah blah blah. But all I say then why me with 36 years of experience why did he do this to me I have never met this man before in my life I would believe that was all an accident if he would have owned up to the mistake and would have told me you have gauze up inside you I put it there to stop the bleeding. And Please lets not not forget the laughter that he expressed when I got hurt. Please keep in mind I did have a medical assistant her name was Holly with me she was there I have all this documented in my patient portal the new OBGYN at family planning can’t believe this has happened either everyone I have told this story to they go on my word I can’t believe that happened to you and they’re pretty much crying but nobody can help me I am so confused. I am most likely going to lose my job for this. My mental health is bad and as a CNA that’s a very important job to have your bearings together. that I worked so hard to get. And as a SSI recipient and to go back to work specially in healthcare. yes I have mental health issues but like I said at the beginning of this email I am far from stupid but people are treating me that way and it’s wrong he should pay for his mistakes and what he did to me. I am so sad. I just cried for a long time I couldn’t stop crying. It was awful now I feel mad I can’t help it. he’s going to hurt somebody he’s going to kill someone. and nobody cares until someone does die then everyone will care. Thank you for your time. I did my best to write this so you could understand it.

The receptionist I spoke with would have me believe that I lacked knowledge non the field of law in Indiana as it pertains to a malicious prosecution case. I wonder where she acquired her law degree and snotty little person attitude. These are the people to avoid, my dear friends.

A friend recommended me to this law firm after my horrific incident. I am VERY CONCERNED AND EQUALLY TERRIFIED after reading a few of the reviews. I have heard NOTHING from my attorney, after hearing that they will just drop your case is unsettling. I have reached out to the legal assistant but she acts as I am doing something wrong when I call. This has been going on since October 2022. I have only called tw,o time maybe 3 so I emailed the attorney that has my case this is day 3 and no response..