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Feels like it’ll never end
by: michelle
on Mon, Sep 15 2008
Hi, I got hurt at work loading a semitrailer in a discount/retail store. First dr. I saw said it was nothing, put an ace bandage around my left knee at a bending restriction on me and sent me back to work with a follow up app. in one week, not even an x-ray. I went back and he tried to bend and straighten my leg but with no luck. He says lets try another week, back to work I go…pain and all. I finally went to my family dr. who sent me right away to an orthopaedic dr. and was given a knee brace and a work restriction of no standing, which meant no work cause nobody would hire me limping around.
Well it’s now been since 4-10-08 and i’ve had 2 x-rays, 2mri’s and a bone scan. Also had a cortisone shot in the knee joint that hurt like hell and when WC found out the dr.s diagnosis they went balistic! I’m now waiting for WC to approve sympathetic block shots to my spine to calm down my nerves because i can’t get my leg to straighten and everytime my leg starts to attempt to want to bend it stiffens back up and i’m back to square one.
I to have the problem of sleeping a full night, I don’t remember what that is. Usually the pain is soooo unberable that I toss and turn all night and moan and groan, also making whimpering noises because it just won’t stop. I haven’t got a lawyer just yet but I’ve been wondering if I should. WC is just dragging their feet. If they could feel what it’s like to have RSD they would be a heck sympathetic to the people diagnosed with. Maybe someone out there will have some suggestions for me. All I know is this has really messed up my life already. I’m a widowed mother of 3 and i’m only 32, I couldn’t even take my kids to the zoo this summer…
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September 2008
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- Feels like it’ll never end - by michelle - (Mon, Sep 15 2008)
Hi, I got hurt at work loading a semitrailer in a discount/retail store. First dr. I saw said it was nothing, put an ace bandage around my left knee at a bending restriction on me and sent me back to work with a follow up app. in one week, not even an x-ray.
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