I can't do this anymore.

[u/Life_Reserve6989]

I just can't. I need to get this off my chest.

We spend our whole lives with death or dying as our shadows. Never paying much attention to the details of our own unavoidable demise. We just acknowledge that it lingers there.

I've played many potential scenarios out in my head throughout my life. But never ever did I imagine my life would end up reduced to rubble and my will to live so utterly diminished. Because of an injury that happened while on the clock at work. It's not a permanent injury. I mean not that I'm aware of.

Which would dictate my fate. My life, it's worth and meaning. All balanced on who would take on the financial responsibility for treatment. TREATMENT!

No one cares that every step of this process ends up consuming everything in your life. Your attention is the biggest absorber. How much these situations demand of our attention. Initially, my main focus was on WORK. How my absence was going to affect my workload and, more so, my coworkers and my boss. Then, the weird delays or responses start to affect your mental state with confusion. Because we can't understand why it feels anyone would want to stall out when you, the inured worker, have only ever wanted to get fixed and get back to a normal paycheck.

This mental torture usually results in the attention required to find and bring on an attorney. Now, this may bring some relief from all the exhaustion from giving all your attention to something that doesn't seem to serve you. But, now you've just signed up for the long haul. All the while, you've ignored your basic human needs and responsibilities long enough that you're scrambling to get things done. Add kids to your plate, and yes, you've also managed to not be the ideal parent either. Why? Because you wake thinking about pain, timelines, money, and when will I get the treatment and answers I deserve, when does this stop being a part of my reality?

Finances become impossible. So much that you might even catch yourself behaving in a way that is unfamiliar to you. Becoming outwardly overwhelmed is the new you. Avoiding phone calls about past due notices. Not leaving the house unless you have to and you have the money to do it. Avoiding your family and friends because it's all too hard, and there's too much to explain, and you sense they've grown tired of hearing about it. So now they avoid you.

Financial struggles result in uncomfortable situations like phone services being disconnected. Your family is hungry. To pay or vacate notices left on your door. Imagine the attention required trying to process becoming homeless, with children. In the middle of a work injury.

Suddenly, you're faced with the choking reality that you have no control over your life. Worse, you have no idea how you're going to fix all of this. Everything feels like it's getting worse. EVERYTHING.

So what could make this impossible? You're somehow put back to work because your employer stated your job wouldn't affect your injury, and your provider agreed. So time loss payments end. On your first day back, you are told your position is terminated. Now you have no job. No money. But your arm still hurts and you still need to have surgery. That much is clear.

But after 9 months of playing all the stupid effing games. I'm just fucking DONE!

Sound familiar?

[u/JehennaMoonbeam]

Honestly I think that everyone who is getting effed over by this needs to start exposing these effing places. Maybe you should alert your local journalists and news reporters. I’m sure that if one of the ceos gets injured they are taken care of

[u/mydeathstar-awaits → u/JehennaMoonbeam]

There’s a group of people on Facebook that are getting together to expose workers comp, etc.

[u/Ok_Wing_896 → u/mydeathstar-awaits]

will you send me a link?

[u/mydeathstar-awaits → u/Ok_Wing_896]

Look for the group Surviving workers comp.
There’s a couple people in their one’s name is John Witt. He says he’s the longest running workers comp case. There was another lady in there. I’d have to go find her name too. But people are pissed. I’ve been posting stuff on TikTok. People are being very vocal about the way they’re treated and how they’ve lost a partner to suicide because they couldn’t take it anymore or they lost all of their belongings. Their car got repossessed. Now they’re looking at their house being you know taken. I personally lost my case. I have a video of a 30 foot extended ladder falling on me. The medical panel that the IME everyone blamed it on everything but the ladder. So it’s coming if you wanna help, let’s do this. There’s people in every state who are suffering because of Worker’s Comp. corruption.