I know that I was put on FMLA. It is a thing that
protects your job while you are out sick. You might
check and see if your company has that.

Belinda
--- rivetjen@... wrote:
> Greeting all! I am glad to have found this group. A
> not so short
> synopsis of my ACLT: Occurred on the job while
> working as a slave and
> 20 hrs OT for the week. I work nights in a warehouse
> filling hospital
> orders. HR didn't schedule me to see the Dr. until 2
> days later. I
> worked on it 2 more nights with terrible pain and
> the knee kept
> locking/sticking. Dr. suspected ACLT, MRI scheduled.
> Given SIT ONLY
> instructions which my supervisor had other ideas and
> put me on the
> shipping dock double-checking totes before they were
> loaded on the
> trucks. I sat maybe 5 minutes the entire shift.
> Double-check
> consists of pushing/pulling/shoving a stack of totes
> over 5 feet high
> to a desk area (I'm not exactly tall to begin with),
> inspecting each
> one, one by one, putting into another stack and
> returning this stack
> to it's proper staging location. The final straw was
> an unusually
> heavy stack; it felt as if my leg was on fire and
> ready to explode.
> I, not so gracefully, convinced my supervisor I
> needed to go home.
> MRI 2 days later confirmed a near complete ACLT,
> referral to surgeon
> who confirmed a complete ACLT. I am still working
> though the company
> did finally decide I was a "liability" and put me
> doing light office
> duty. I am scheduled to have surgery February 26.
> As this is a WC
> claim, I was wondering if anyone else has had the
> privilege
> of "jumping through hoops"? Am I required to remain
> in the company's
> employ or can I quit the god-forsaken job and still
> get the
> benefits? I have a work-at-home job I do on the side
> that at this
> point would prefer to devote more time doing VS
> being slave labor.
> Got a call from the insurance company, seems they
> expect to have me
> back in the warehouse 1 week after surgery since the
> company is
> complying with the light duty.
>
> Fed up and burned out,
> JenR ~ Colorado
>
>
>


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