Friday, April 16, 2010

Pain

I hurt my back almost a week ago at work. I was helping a non-compliant patient as we forced her to walk so that she could heal and then right as we were entering her room she "oh I'm falling", she really wasn't but just to be safe I put my arm under hers and straightened her up, since she wasn't walking with good posture like we had told her too a thousand times,but as I was going up my back kinked and I felt instant pain. I waited a few hours to see how I did but the pain just kept getting worse. So I told my supervisor and she sent me to the ed since it was saturday and occ health was closed. So I go down there and wait two and a half hours to be taken back to get a shot in my butt and x-rays and then sent home with drugs and told I'll be better in two days. That all took about 40 mintues and now here I am a week later, I can walk now with not so much pain for a little bit but then it comes back AND if I sit too long I start to get shooting pains down the back of my leg into my knee. Along with all this no one at work told me that I have to go through occ health to recieve care so on monday I went to my chiropractor and was actually starting to get better until wednesday Disability services call me and chew me out for not going trough occ health. Thursday after school I go to occ health and they do the same exam as my chiropractor and then tell me that I can't work, I need an mri and that I need a social worker to set everything up since I'm an employee of the hospital. They told me to wait for the SW call on friday and so I did. Of course she didn't call back when I called her cell phone and her office phone. So now I have to wait til monday to even set up appt for my mri. This is the most ridiculous thing ever!!!!!! These people are taking forever doing things to help me that I had already done myself and it didn't take a week to get it done. I think I'm better at taking care of myself and knowing what I need rather than some strangers but no since the hospital I work for is self insured they direct my care and have taken ALL my rights out of my hands. I FEEL SO SAFE!!!!!! NOT!!!!!!!!!!!! I want this to end and it hasn't even begun.