Liability..Going after the Big Bad Wolf

I wonder if, because back pain is such a commonality among the population, that it is looked upon as a scapegoat. To inform your supervisors that you’re experiencing back pain and might want to take it easy, you are looked at as though you were just making up excuses for being unproductive for a day or so. I do believe that back pain is the medical reason for 90% of the liability suits out there against major companies. Customer, slips and falls, employee, lifted too much weight. It’s an issue for employer and the back pain sufferer.I am no stranger to back pain. I’ve experienced some form of it from time to time since I was a teenager. I was told that the sports I participated in would cause the pain and I’d probably be dealing with it my whole life. (And they wonder why the teen suicide rates are high when they tell you things like this at such a young age.) I’ve worked through the pain most times when it flares up. Go a little slower, don’t lift so much of anything for a couple of days. Yadda Yadda.  For some reason, this time, I can’t even tie my shoes and we’re going on a week here.My manager keeps looking at me like I am a big baby. I have a very high tolerance for pain, so the fact that this has me almost in tears when I am sitting still, scares me a little. I haven’t stopped doing my job. I haven’t filed a suit against my work either. I know that is part of why my manager acts like there’s nothing really wrong, he thinks I am going to go after the company. I keep telling him no way, it’s not something that I did on the job. It’s an old injury that is flaring up. However, I will tell him if I don’t take it easy, working will make it worse or do some permanent damage, in which case, the company would be liable. He doesn’t like that answer.Today I have a zero radius at the waist. I cannot move in any direction more than an inch without causing some serious discomfort. Tie shoes? Shoot. I can’t even get dressed, let alone tie a shoe. It started getting this bad last night after work. I am going to have to take a Percocet or two today before work, I hate doing that, but I can’t move here! I certainly can’t call in sick either. I just hope there’s some good carry outs there today whom I can use to do all the lifting and heaving labor today. I am afraid of what would happen if I tried.Guess we’ll be putting a call in to the Doctor tomorrow......like I have nothing better to do!

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I wonder if, because back pain is such a commonality among the population, that it is looked upon as a scapegoat. To inform your supervisors that you’re experiencing back pain and might want to take it easy, you are looked at as though you were just making up excuses for being unproductive for a day or so. I do believe that back pain is the medical reason for 90% of the liability suits out there against major companies. Customer, slips and falls, employee, lifted too much weight. It’s an issue for employer and the back pain sufferer.I am no stranger to back pain. I’ve experienced some form of it from time to time since I was a teenager. I was told that the sports I participated in would cause the pain and I’d probably be dealing with it my whole life. (And they wonder why the teen suicide rates are high when they tell you things like this at such a young age.) I’ve worked through the pain most times when it flares up. Go a little slower, don’t lift so much of anything for a couple of days. Yadda Yadda.  For some reason, this time, I can’t even tie my shoes and we’re going on a week here.My manager keeps looking at me like I am a big baby. I have a very high tolerance for pain, so the fact that this has me almost in tears when I am sitting still, scares me a little. I haven’t stopped doing my job. I haven’t filed a suit against my work either. I know that is part of why my manager acts like there’s nothing really wrong, he thinks I am going to go after the company. I keep telling him no way, it’s not something that I did on the job. It’s an old injury that is flaring up. However, I will tell him if I don’t take it easy, working will make it worse or do some permanent damage, in which case, the company would be liable. He doesn’t like that answer.Today I have a zero radius at the waist. I cannot move in any direction more than an inch without causing some serious discomfort. Tie shoes? Shoot. I can’t even get dressed, let alone tie a shoe. It started getting this bad last night after work. I am going to have to take a Percocet or two today before work, I hate doing that, but I can’t move here! I certainly can’t call in sick either. I just hope there’s some good carry outs there today whom I can use to do all the lifting and heaving labor today. I am afraid of what would happen if I tried.Guess we’ll be putting a call in to the Doctor tomorrow......like I have nothing better to do!

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