u/oopsandpoops

I'm not a new mom but my doctor and his wife just had a baby. Wonderful people but...
I don't want to fill his wife's life with more noise, don't want to give her more laundry to do, and the lil boy just hatched so toys seem like maybe it would just be clutter to clean up

What is something you guys would ACTUALLY really appreciate as a post-birth-one-month-old-baby new mom?

I'm thinking an item (unsure of what) and a gift card for their favorite taco place.

They've sat in for all but one appointment and have interfered with care every time. They don't want to file a lost time claim so they drive me. I want to drive myself. Do I have that right during the workday or am I required to let them drive me?

Edit: I won the battle, they've agreed not to drive me to my appointments or attend the appointments anymore... and they scheduled me for an IME so my C-9s are all being denied until then

I got injured almost 3 months ago, my employers took me to urgent care. The urgent care woman misdiagnosed and ignored me but I begged through three follow ups to be seen by a specialist. Finally, I got in with the specialist however he does not take on cases like mine where he would be my primary treating physician. I have requested to see a more qualified doctor on several occasions and was told no because "we're in too deep with this lady" (the urgent care person).

I will need to do my own research to be able to exercise my right to see another treating physician for my medco-14's in particular. What kind of doctor would I go see for a back injury who would be able to take my case on?

Sorry, guys more of a homework question than an IBEW question but I assume we're all using the electrical training alliance program so I was hoping yall would know the "right" answer

In the field, our dykes and side cuts are the same thing.

But in the Electrical Job 1 section, the tools of the trade lesson it separates them into two categories

also... what in the hell are new england pliers?? They look like linemen's.

Edit: It took me four hours but I got the first one done. There was one other boy in my class who was just as behind as I was. We're powering through it. Thank you guys so much for telling me to be stick with it and for the person who didn't downplay my injury, thank you. I have some of the worst brother fuckers on my site, they have definitely skewed my perception of the ibew as a whole but class is my breath of fresh air every two weeks- I think that's why I take my shortcomings in class so hard, it's like it's the only time I get to be an equal. I get to look forward to working alongside people like the ones I'm learning with and I am in a better headspace now than I was when I first posted this. Realistically, I am not going to get this 3-4-3-GFCI-duplex-light thing done today BUT.... I'm going to get further than last time and that's all I can hope for. Shit, I had to teach a CE3 how to tie in a box not too long ago so I think there's hope for me. Thank you guys.

I know apprentices are supposed to be stupid but I am so far behind my classmates. The last two classes we have done have been simple switches and switched outlets, etc.

I do not get it. It makes sense on paper but I am struggling so badly while executing it.

I got hurt at work two months ago, I can't walk normally, I can't stand properly, I feel like I can't do anything anymore and it's messing with my head so bad. It feels like I got flash banged, after too long in one position my ears start ringing and my head starts pounding. I feel weak. I feel stupid. I can't focus. I did just fine doing all of this on the jobsite but it's been two months of light duty, excruciating pain, and dealing with workers comp appointments. The best experience I get since basically crippling myself is in the classroom and I feel like I can't even learn anything because I'm so caught up in how physically uncomfortable I am.

I only got one of three exercises done last week, everyone else finished them all. Today I have been trying to do a simple switched receptacle. I am just not getting it. Everything sounds like gibberish, everything looks like rainbow spaghetti, and I feel so, so stupid.

I don't want to quit, I don't want to give up, and I really don't want to have to take painkillers to get through my days but I am in agony and I am too embarrassed to ask for any sort of accommodation or anything.

Does it get any better? I'm trying so hard but it feels like it's not paying off, I just get weaker and dumber as the days go on. Did any certified imbeciles make it through their apprenticeship? Was anyone else the dumbest person in the class? It doesn't help that I'm a female, I already feel like I don't deserve to be here. Now it feels like I'm just proving to myself that I'm not worthy of a career in this.

Work made me wait 9 days to go to the doctor, they took me to urgent care. Urgent care said "she needs to go to the emergency room, you can bring any imaging back here for light duty documentation and a follow up"

The ER doctor said I likely herniated a disk, the urgent care doctor is treating it like a pulled muscle. I hurt myself pretty bad, I can't walk or sit, the only thing that brings me any relief is laying flat on my back or stomach but I have to alternate. The pain starts on either side of my tailbone, it feels like someone stuck an ice pick on either side of it, the pain shoots up into both of my shoulder blades and down into one leg. My tailbone is constantly asleep, like it's numb and tingling. I got a CT scan at the ER that showed nothing out of the ordinary.

I want to see a specialist and get an MRI. Urgent care has already given me a differing opinion from the ER doctor, she was rude about it, and I don't have a follow up until Friday but I can't even sit in my car for more than five minutes.

Am I allowed to schedule an appointment with a specialist without the urgent care doctor doing so for me? I don't have access to my claim number or anything, they won't give it to me but I am afraid if I see a doctor for a second opinion before my follow up, they'll say it's not covered since the company didn't choose the doctor for me.

I know the specialist I want to see is BWC certified.