u/Thegameforfun17

Sitting at urgent care writing this. This is my third work related injury with this job in the last year. Only one of those was by my own doing (I’m stupid and tripped on the sidewalk in the dark, I clock in at 5:45am everyday)

But the other two were providing direct care.
Yesterday I got kicked super hard in the back of the shoulder by one of the guys. It’s still hurts. Went to urgent care yesterday who put me on light duty this whole week and they also told me to come back today to get X-rays done. The appointment isn’t over yet and it already sounds like these X-rays aren’t going to be favorable based on the techs follow up questions which sucks.
This person who kicked me too is super behavioral. He hates coming home from outings. I tried so hard not to cry when I got kicked because it hurt so bad.
I don’t even work in the houses anymore really, I normally work in a different department but I pick up here because I love my job so much.
I’m terrified of losing my job over another injury caused by an individual. I thankfully have the same WC attorney from my very first injury. But I’m scared.

I don’t even know the point of this post anymore. I feel drained. I reported this all correctly minus the house manager because yesterday was on call only. But when I tried to talk to her this morning, she snapped at me and totally dismissed it. I wanted to cry right then and there.

I live in central NY. The last few weeks it was a constant of 30F one day, 70F for 2 days and plummet back to 40F and rain. Just like today. I left my house at 5am for work, it was 55F. End of my morning bus run (I’m a bus monitor), it was 75F, started our PM run at 1pm, it was 42F and downpouring. To add to it, one of my individuals (I work with persons with I/DD) took a tumble getting on the bus and guess who went down with them? Me. Cool. So my joints were already hurting and I was sleepy because of of the change in pressure and weather.
I also have POTS, and I have iron deficiency anemia (mostly during my period but it’s just bad today), and I’m miserable all the damn time. I’m tired of living this way. It’s been cloudy for weeks and it feels like I can’t get out of bed. I’m missing out on formative time with my one year old because I’m so unwell.

I got a referral for hematology to start getting iron infusions. But because they don’t have enough “concerning” labs they can’t get me in for several weeks despite my PCP stating in my referral that I need an infusion asap (this place has the ability to do them same or next day)

I’m tired of being tired. I’m tired of feeling not dependable at my job because I’m fatigued all the effing time.