Post by rickandkryss on Sept 12, 2003 11:28:02 GMT -5
Hey all,
I am putting in another request. I injured myself at work over a year ago, it was initially an injury that could be healed with Physical therapy and rest. However my employer did not honor my work restrictions and I worsend, this happened twice before sugery was unavoidable. I then went back to work after and they did it again and i declined rapidly. This went on two months, before my doc angry at my employer took me off work for a month. While off work my employer let me go and left me jobless after they had done all of the damage, because they did not want to work around my restrictions. The end result was a perm limp, that now effects my hip and back. I can not do half of what I used to and have struggled with that a lot, because sometimes I feel inadequate. I have also been in pain pretty much non-stop for over a year and it breaks a persons mind down. I was put in voc rehab with a lady that spent two months degrading me and making me feel incapable, it was a nightmare. I was forced to apply for over 170 position and was not hired because i have so many perm work restrictions, that most could not honor them. Then when my voc rehab was over this lady wrote a report about my private life and said I had no wage loss and that i had cost myself jobs by being honest to potential employers about my restrictions. Yet, if i had lied I could have been put in the position of injuring myself further. Now here I am months later, still unemployed. I have never had to apply to more than 3 jobs before being hired before my injury. I have caused my family to loose everything, i can not even pay my rent anymore and my hubby does not make enough to pay the bills. i had to borrow money for school clothes. I hired an attorney and put all my hope in him for the last 8 months and he quit right in the middle of everything a week ago. I am trying to seek more treatment, because I can not handle the pain anymore and work comp is making it difficult to even do that. My doc tried to get me approved to see his partner for another assesment, but they said no and made an appt for me to see a doc in a small town over 1 1/2 hours from me. I live in a town with hundreds of docs, why not one of them or the doc my doc wants me to see. They also informed me that because I have no attorney they are not going to continue my claim that i have wage loss. I am tired of fighting and I dont know what to do anymore. My son wanted to be in football and my daughter in soccer and I could not afford it. My daughters b-day is in three weeks and I have no money and she has all of these plans for her b-day. She is only 7, how do i break her heart? My hubby is working 45 hours a week at his regular job and now is working the fires on the weekends for another 24-36 hours so we can try to catch up our rent. He is exausted and it is not fair to him, even that he tells me it is ok. No one will give me a job and i am a good worker with a lot of experiance. I am at a loss as to how I can help my family get out of this and how I can get the proper treatment for my injury. Please pray for me and sorry this is so long.
I am putting in another request. I injured myself at work over a year ago, it was initially an injury that could be healed with Physical therapy and rest. However my employer did not honor my work restrictions and I worsend, this happened twice before sugery was unavoidable. I then went back to work after and they did it again and i declined rapidly. This went on two months, before my doc angry at my employer took me off work for a month. While off work my employer let me go and left me jobless after they had done all of the damage, because they did not want to work around my restrictions. The end result was a perm limp, that now effects my hip and back. I can not do half of what I used to and have struggled with that a lot, because sometimes I feel inadequate. I have also been in pain pretty much non-stop for over a year and it breaks a persons mind down. I was put in voc rehab with a lady that spent two months degrading me and making me feel incapable, it was a nightmare. I was forced to apply for over 170 position and was not hired because i have so many perm work restrictions, that most could not honor them. Then when my voc rehab was over this lady wrote a report about my private life and said I had no wage loss and that i had cost myself jobs by being honest to potential employers about my restrictions. Yet, if i had lied I could have been put in the position of injuring myself further. Now here I am months later, still unemployed. I have never had to apply to more than 3 jobs before being hired before my injury. I have caused my family to loose everything, i can not even pay my rent anymore and my hubby does not make enough to pay the bills. i had to borrow money for school clothes. I hired an attorney and put all my hope in him for the last 8 months and he quit right in the middle of everything a week ago. I am trying to seek more treatment, because I can not handle the pain anymore and work comp is making it difficult to even do that. My doc tried to get me approved to see his partner for another assesment, but they said no and made an appt for me to see a doc in a small town over 1 1/2 hours from me. I live in a town with hundreds of docs, why not one of them or the doc my doc wants me to see. They also informed me that because I have no attorney they are not going to continue my claim that i have wage loss. I am tired of fighting and I dont know what to do anymore. My son wanted to be in football and my daughter in soccer and I could not afford it. My daughters b-day is in three weeks and I have no money and she has all of these plans for her b-day. She is only 7, how do i break her heart? My hubby is working 45 hours a week at his regular job and now is working the fires on the weekends for another 24-36 hours so we can try to catch up our rent. He is exausted and it is not fair to him, even that he tells me it is ok. No one will give me a job and i am a good worker with a lot of experiance. I am at a loss as to how I can help my family get out of this and how I can get the proper treatment for my injury. Please pray for me and sorry this is so long.