So sorry everyone to have such a lapse in time from the last blog as I've had alot going on. I will do my best to try and stay on top of it better, or at least as best as I can.
Well I returned back into work from my suspension fresh on a Monday morning, however I don't think they were ready for me. No one knew where my ID was so I had to wait for a few different people to come in so they could figure out who actually had it so I could come back in physically. To me it was really kinda of entertaining, one person took the ID so where did they put it or whom did they give it to...really it had only been a 3 day suspension I wasn't gone that long.
OK so now were passed that may lay and we again have to figure out what to do with me, remember this is a warehouse so there are limited jobs for sitting down most of what needs to be done is pretty heavy or requires some sort of lifting and walking and these are things I'm not suppose to do. My supervisor and loss prevention both are hoping they have something for me to do because I'm on the clock still getting paid. I happened to get lucky for a few days a new item launch was getting ready to be happening so they always have a bunch of tedious papers that have to be folded and placed into plastic sleeves, just perfect for someone who has to sit and better to have a person on light duty doing it then pulling someone from their job to do it, so I guess it kinda worked out. I didn't drag my feet (no pun intended) or go slow doing it, I got into a system and just knocked it out. I was a little nervous for what job might be next knowing that most light duty jobs are generally dirty and can heavier which for me was no good for my foot/ankle.
In between work there were also doctors appointments too. I was only seeing the company doctor at this time and he always kept with the ER's diagnosis. I kept telling him the pain just didn't seem to be going away and I thought I would already be feeling some kind of relief and be off the crutches or at least be able to put some sort of weight on it by this point, but I still couldn't. The doctor didn't seem to alarmed at this point ,he just ace wrapped my foot, put me in an air cast and told me to use the crutches. He at this point limited my light duty to sedentary only to keep me off my foot.
Sedentary light duty was almost a joke. No matter what I was going to be doing I knew it wouldn't be sedentary but I had to wait and see, I told the doctor nothing would be sitting and he said if there was a problem to call him and he would call there because he didn't want me on it, it needed to heal. I turned in the paperwork and they just kind of gave the sedentary a look...I knew what the look meant, "like yeah right." They started me with damages, well I got to get the totes from point A to point B, then go threw them and separate the things accordingly. I choose to sit in a rolling chair a drag the totes back and forth...that wasn't walking right, how else were they gonna get there, I didn't have a magic wand. They wanted a group leader to keep bringing them to me, she was busy alot and wasn't always able to tell when I needed more or even right there when I needed them...I was driving her crazy and you could see it was bothering her, just another thing in a list of a million things in a day she already needed to do...and now she had me as a burden to top it off. I stayed with damages for a little while and was eventually moved into the upstairs offices to help with filing and things of that nature which is something I'm very able to do even though I worked in a warehouse. It was a welcome change to my injury as I was able to sit, but move around as my foot/ankle and now lower leg sometimes demanded. I was now under the care of an Orthopedic and in Physical Therapy three times a week, but that will have to wait for next time.
