Doc Brown
12-22-2009, 12:09 AM
After my management job was downsized this past summer, I ended up having to take a job where I'm driving a large straight truck full of various products to hand deliver, somewhere around 800-1000 piece average per day at about 10000 lbs. or better.
The issue is this:
I am two months into my 3 month probationary period, and I sustained an injury last week Monday while on the job. I made a brief comment about it to a 2nd shift boss there, but I really doubt he made note of it. The injury was to my right wrist, on the underside. Initially it hurt, but soon almost all the pain went away unless it is under load and twisted a certain way. So obviously, I avoided doing that and it really isn't much of an issue now except for the small hard bump that seems to have developed directly under the meaty part of the thumb. Or perhaps it was there the whole time and I just never noticed it until more recently. I told my wife about it yesterday and showed her, and her immediate thought is that I fractured it and now the end of a small bone is extruding outwards.
I know I have to take care of it especially if it really is fractured, but I'm guessing it will probably require surgery due to the intricacy of that area. My doctor's office is refusing to even see me to determine what it is without my having all of my employers workers comp information first. My fears are twofold. One, that workers comp will no longer cover it because it happened a week ago and was never properly documented or followed through by either a boss or myself and two, that I will be fired either before a claim could get started on it (like tomorrow when I tell them I need the WC info), or immediately upon my return to full active status because I am on probation and they determined that I'm just "not working out", when in reality they are pissed because I cost them money and could be a further liability to them.
We literally cannot afford for me to lose a job because I was injured in the line of duty, because decent management/desk jobs are virtually impossible to find right now, and it will be impossible to get employed anywhere in the transportation/service field I am right now if I'm unable to work due to movement restrictions on a post-surgery healing wrist.
Thoughts on this?
The issue is this:
I am two months into my 3 month probationary period, and I sustained an injury last week Monday while on the job. I made a brief comment about it to a 2nd shift boss there, but I really doubt he made note of it. The injury was to my right wrist, on the underside. Initially it hurt, but soon almost all the pain went away unless it is under load and twisted a certain way. So obviously, I avoided doing that and it really isn't much of an issue now except for the small hard bump that seems to have developed directly under the meaty part of the thumb. Or perhaps it was there the whole time and I just never noticed it until more recently. I told my wife about it yesterday and showed her, and her immediate thought is that I fractured it and now the end of a small bone is extruding outwards.
I know I have to take care of it especially if it really is fractured, but I'm guessing it will probably require surgery due to the intricacy of that area. My doctor's office is refusing to even see me to determine what it is without my having all of my employers workers comp information first. My fears are twofold. One, that workers comp will no longer cover it because it happened a week ago and was never properly documented or followed through by either a boss or myself and two, that I will be fired either before a claim could get started on it (like tomorrow when I tell them I need the WC info), or immediately upon my return to full active status because I am on probation and they determined that I'm just "not working out", when in reality they are pissed because I cost them money and could be a further liability to them.
We literally cannot afford for me to lose a job because I was injured in the line of duty, because decent management/desk jobs are virtually impossible to find right now, and it will be impossible to get employed anywhere in the transportation/service field I am right now if I'm unable to work due to movement restrictions on a post-surgery healing wrist.
Thoughts on this?