January 10, 2012
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tendinitis on the mendinosis
last night was again brutal on my arm. I had to harass my boss (for the third time) to get me that injury report that he should have taken care of on Friday. he says " come see me after break and we'll write it up". yet another stall tactic, I'm thinking, but as it was, he came and found me right after break, and we got it taken care of. I wasn't about to leave without some kind of documentation saying I got hurt. why it took him ' til the last minute is beyond me? anyway. I get home from work, do us a pooperdog walk, take a 5 hour nap, then call my HR and let them know what happened over the weekend. she patches me thru to the medical dude there, and he let's me know what doc to see and when. I jump in the shower, then head out. after about 12 different drug and alcohol screenings, the doctor finally sees me. the first thing he does is hold my wrist and make my hand go in an up and down motion, then places my hand on my wrist where his was and repeats the motions. "do you feel that? ...it feels like a rusty hinge, right?! you got tendinitis bad!! he fits me a cast that restricts wrist and thumb movement, throws a bottle of Naproxen at me, and tells me to cool it for a good week (I can still work, but use my own judgement as to what I can and can't do without deepening the injury). he then gets down right mad at the increase in injury numbers from the stalag, simply because someone from higher up made the decision to rotate workers on the assembly line stations from 1 hour per station to 3 hours...I agreed. it's something I predicted would happen (as far as injuries going up), but I didn't know I'd be one of them
. anyway, I'm glad to get that out of the way. I don't care so much going to the doctor, but in this case, it feels good knowing I wasn't just being a wuss. the doctor said it would have been a lot faster treatment wise had I went to the med center directly after it happened. bringing me back to my point earlier that it shouldn't have been my bosses call to simply ignore treatment, and put me on something easier to run...I should prob'ly bring this up to my HR. it would suck to have someone seriously life threatening type hurt, and have him make that "you'll be alright, I'll just put you on something easier" call. I prob'ly already got my boss in trouble by letting HR know that it took 3 days to get an injury report out of him, but if he'd do his damn job right...ya know what I mean?!
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