u/Dizzy3180

Why does being a single mom always feel like a never-ending boxing match? Granted I only have my kids every other week Friday to Friday. I work full-time and I work part-time freelance. My kids are older, 13 and 15. When I’m not at work, I’m just driving them from place to place, cooking, food shopping, getting what they need for sports. I suddenly just felt like we were in a good position and flow and my landlord hits that he’s selling his place and is not renewing my lease, which is up at the end of October. Trying to find a place in this area is difficult. The cost of living just seems to keep increasing. My car just needed repairs. Now on top of trying to keep life together for them I have to find us a new place to live and figure out how to come up with extra money I don’t have for a down payment and security deposit if I do find a place. When does it let up?

I’ve had a hip issue that I have been dealing with for years. I would get cortisone shots and they did help for a while on and off when I had issues. I never knew the cause at the time just that I had an issue.

A few months ago I realized that the equipment I wear around my waist and hip were the cause of the issue. I was in extreme pain one day and asked to use a sick day and was sent to be evaluated as a workers comp claim.

I saw the workers comp orthopedist and he agreed it is a workers comp issue but it is an occupational injury/disease not an acute injury, which it was put in for originally. Therefore the claim was denied.

I got an attorney and we filed an occupational injury claim. The claim was admitted but my employer indicated that does not immediately trigger workers comp medical treatment.

My attorney is reaching out to the employers attorney but I’m at a loss of what to expect.

I’ve never had an injury or fall to my hip. I also have a noticeable dent in my hip from the placement of my equipment over two decades which has deteriorated the muscle over the area which makes it difficult to even lay on that side.

Right now I am out using sick time while waiting for the new claim to start bc the pain is still unbearable.

Anyone ever deal with this? What should expect or do that I am not already doing?

I have been out of work on a hip injury. Work sent me to see if it was a Worker’s Comp. issue. The doctors agreed, but because it was submitted as an acute injury claim it was denied as a doctor determined it was an occupational injury developed overtime. I acquired a lawyer, who resubmitted the claim as an occupational injury. I have all the doctors notes indicating the injury was causal to my work and the equipment I am required to wear at my hip. How long does it take, for the new claim to move forward? The doctor they sent me to had me out of work or on light duty, which we do not have. Last time I saw him he had me out of work on the same restriction and was requesting to do a procedure and a referral to a back doctor as well. After he advised, he believed it was not an acute injury, but rather an occupational injury and they close that claim, he submitted a note indicating I could return to work full duty without reevaluating me from my last appointment with him. Just wanted to know if anyone had any insight to this and what to expect?