can't drive...now STILL CAN'T WORK!

[JeepcoMJ]

if you've ever had somethin happen to ya that took away your ability to drive for a period of time...let's hear it.

 

 

i rolled my lead foot today at work, dislocated, and sprained it. i may have burst a blood vessel...we'll see about that.

 

but the most important thing is that i can't even push the gas pedal! ahhhhhhh. where's an auto mj when i need it? damned stick shift.

 

 

and my bro's got epilepsy. now i know how he feels.

[Mitch]

Today was my first day back to work after over 20 days off, and only the 3rd time I drove in a month.

 

It all started with little stomach pains that turned into bigger ones, and then a few trips to the emergancy room and several doctors visits and a few surgerys and lots and lots of drugs and now I am still not 100% but I am good enough to work and drive.

 

I am diagnosed with colitus/crohn's disease. :mad:

 

That said, my TJ is now for sale because it's too bumpy for me to drive an hour one way to work. Hurts too much. And I will be buying a Cadillac CTS to replace it. Weeeee! Worst part is I don't want to sell the TJ.

[feerocknok]

Someone rigged up a sweet hand throttle on hear for when their leg was broken. Was a like 3 pieces off wood that hinge off of each other to push the gas pedal.

Nothing's happened to me yet *crosses fingers*

[Twisty]

but you're keeping the mj...right?

[Mitch]

Yes I am keeping the MJ, I have a lot of work to do with it, but hopefully I start feeling good enough to work on it soon.

 

I know this is wrong, but the pioneer DVD/NAVI unit must get purchased for the Caddy before I do much to the MJ. Priorities.

[JeepcoMJ]

haha, i thought you were asking me if i was keeping the mj. nope, it's for sale. JUST KIDDING i'll have that truck when my kids start driving. i may not have my other ones, but i'll have that one.

[JeepcoMJ]

Today was my first day back to work after over 20 days off, and only the 3rd time I drove in a month.

 

It all started with little stomach pains that turned into bigger ones, and then a few trips to the emergancy room and several doctors visits and a few surgerys and lots and lots of drugs and now I am still not 100% but I am good enough to work and drive.

 

I am diagnosed with colitus/crohn's disease. :mad:

 

That said, my TJ is now for sale because it's too bumpy for me to drive an hour one way to work. Hurts too much. And I will be buying a Cadillac CTS to replace it. Weeeee! Worst part is I don't want to sell the TJ.

 

geez and i was mad about a week?!

[Mitch]

You can be mad over a week, I was, I had no idea it would take as long as it did. But get healthy! thats important.

[hemi_comanche]

I once Busted open my left foot at work, and drove home with the most extreme pain in my foot. I drove it with just a sock on since my foot would not really fit into my shoe with out re-opening the wound. Not a big deal if it is an auto, but this was in my stick shift truck with the HD pressure plate. I hope never to relive that.

[jackel18]

about 2 yrs ago i fractured my(right) hip playing paintball :roll:

 

(i thought i just had a dead leg)

 

i tried to drive myself home, but pushing the gas brought tears to my eyes. i used my left foot to put on the brakes and had my buddy drive me home.

 

 

that was about ten in the morning, and i finally decided to go tho the hospital at ten that night.

 

couldn't drive for like two or three weeks

[JOMJ87]

Well in high school right before i got my liciense I'm talking a week before I broke my leg and exploded my axle at wrestling practice. My MJ is stick and the only thing i had to drive but i had a boot thing on my left leg for 9 months :eek: Luckily my Dad was nice enough to let me drive the Extera for my test and then around when i needed to go do something but once i got to be able to move i drove the MJ with the boot and all. Only a few times did i get stuck under the dash pushing the clutch down :oops: But then i learned to use my Crutch to push it in and out and also how to shift with out a clutch so it got easier. Kinda sounds dangerous but I never had any other probs.

 

Cole

[bigd44889]

as far as not being able to work

i had a small stroke and i drive truck so no work for 10 munths

as far as driving my vehicals i had the stroke in tn. and drove myself back to northern oh.

[Pete M]

My broken foot and then my broken ankle were both before I could drive so my stories will be a bit different.

I stopped driving the 88 (back when it was 2wd) for like a day or 2 after I shook hands with the table saw. That was fun driving a 3 hour round trip with only my right hand. :roll: But the left was pinned and wrapped and strapped to my chest so I couldn't even steer with it for that first couple weeks.

Then in '02 after my 6 month fight with mono left me so insanely tired all the time, I took myself off the road for a few months (unless it was an emergency). I simply couldn't pay attention to everything on the road and my reflexes were, let's say, substandard. :( I liken it to being up for 36 hours, but I was like that all the time, even after 8 hours of sleep.

[JeepcoMJ]

i need to stuff something in my mouth. i jinxed myself. the doctor called today and said a specialist called and has decided i fractured my weight bearing bone on the right side of my right ankle. so they want to give me a boot cast thing...meaning there won't be enough room for my foot to step on the gas. either that or a walking cast. basically, i have to go to the orthopedist and get it checked out even more now. this sucks cause i didn't have any scheduled hours at menards yet and idk if workmans comp. will cover that or the 37 hours i lost this week at my other job.

 

does anyone know how workman's comp works?

 

thanks.

[Mitch]

I was just on UNUM's Short term disablility but that is provided to me through my employer (though I think I pay for it bi-weekly).

 

Honestly, you probably don't have HR to go to, but my HR was a ton of help to me.

 

and that weight bearing bone thingy..... you don't need it - give your doctor a crazy look and smash a beer can on your forehead. :D

[JeepcoMJ]

does anyone know if workman's comp. is legally required to pay me for ALL loss of hourse, a.k.a. i cannot work at menards for awhile, and also I cannot work at the aquatic center for awhile. I lost 36 hours in 1 go from this injury. problem is, that's at another job.

 

the injury occurred at menards, but shouldn't workman's comp. cover me for the loss of ability to do work at all? i would presume so, as it's gonna affect my life pretty badly if i can't work and can't even walk (doc. said no weight on my foot at ALL)

 

i really don't get it. do you?

[JeepcoMJ]

another 4 weeks i fractured the talus bone and bruiesed the lower extreme of my tibia apparently. soooo i'm not happy

[feerocknok]

another 4 weeks i fractured the talus bone and bruiesed the lower extreme of my tibia apparently. soooo i'm not happy

Did you get workman's comp figured out?

[JeepcoMJ]

nope

[ifixit8]

sorry to read the trouble. i doubt the workman's comp will cover the pay from both jobs. usually it's from just the one, and that's if you even get it. at least you should be able to get it. most big retail jobs or companies have it. I wasn't as lucky with my injury when i was 19. I tore my acl in my right leg. I went to the ER just to have them tell me it's a sprain. I walked on it for a year! then i decieded to see a specialist. turns out in that time the acl disintegrated. I had to have surgry my first year of college during x-mas break. I couldnn't walk or drive for at least a month!! and it wasn't work related, i was donating my time for the local junior football team. i was lifting a homebuilt consession stand with my dad to put it on the back of the van. it was alittle stuck so we rocked it back and fourth. well I had my leg to close and freaked. so i spun to the left but my foot stayed straight. then i heard a snap and fell to the ground. Most painfull thing i have ever had happen. that made the hernia repair a breeze. which was about a year and a half ago. but that was even a few weeks of no driving or work.

[carnuck]

Only twice that I can recall (besides too many tickets when I was young and dumb) Had a car fall on my head Jan 95 (Duvall, WA quake knocked the civic off axle stands) that pushed my right eye out of it's socket (doc shoved it back in and I had double vision for over a year) and I lost several pints of blood from the rupturing of my left ear (basal skull fracture from the eye socket across the top to the back. Doctors figured I was going to die for sure. I even overheard them) Took 8 months to gt surgery on my left ear to restore hearing and coincidentally balance. In Sept, I drove my 40 foot bus/home to Seattle when I moved here (I had to wear an eye patch so I could tell where I was and not be messed up with double images but it was hell on my depth perception!)

June 29 '79 I accidentally stepped into nothingness from the top of a 3 story building with an armload of bricks (I was learning to be a bricklayer) and landed with a brick under my back, which vertically cracked and the one above it broke a corner off, then lodged into the cracked one, cutting off the use of my legs.

It was friday, payday and everyone took off early for a long weekend (July 1st is Canada's version of Independence day) and I was there alone. After laying about for a few hours, I realized no-one was coming, so I crawled to my car ('66 Grande Parisienne with stock Chev 396, dual quad, powerglide holeshot and 5 point harness with rollcage) and opened the door with a 2x4, crawled in, and drove myself to the hospital, using the board to operate gas and brakes till I got there.

Just as I pulled into the driveway, someone cut me off and I dropped the board, catching it across the gas as I headed straight for the emergency entrance. (luckily no-one was in the way) I slapped the car into reverse, stalling it into a slide, then I slapped it into park and shut the motor off.

"like a glove!" I was parked sideways across the entrance, about 2 feet from the door and 2 inches from the walls front and back. The attendants came out, saw no-one in the back and assumed I was drunk. Took 16 or so minutes to convince them I really was hurt (idiots!) and while I was in Xrays, it took 2 tow trucks to remove my car without gouging the walls (cost me $400 for the towing)

My now ex-wife (and mother of my children) came by later, found out I probably wouldn't walk again and sat on the bed while she was explaining why she was leaving me and the bed collapsed as I tried to pull myself up. I also found out the company I worked for didn't pay for worker's comp or my taxes and they took off. I spent 6 weeks in the hospital (pretty much feeling sorry for myself), then by fluke I tried to signal the nurse for a bedpan, dropped the call button. Somehow the way I was twisted pulled the spine open enough to snap the bones back in place.

I let out a whoop (first time I hadn't hurt in 6 weeks and I could feel my legs again!) and the nurses came running and freaked when I wasn't in bed. I was on the can, having the first of many enjoyable "normal" bowel movements since then and I got there under my own power!

[JeepcoMJ]

wow...and i thought i had reason to be mad. ifixit, what kind of hernia did you have? i have one on either side of my groin, with one being bigger than the other. been thinkin bout gettin them fixed, and now seems as good a time as ever.

[Drahcir495]

Had a car fall on my head Jan 95 (Duvall, WA quake knocked the civic off axle stands) that pushed my right eye out of it's socket (doc shoved it back in and I had double vision for over a year) and I lost several pints of blood from the rupturing of my left ear (basal skull fracture from the eye socket across the top to the back. Doctors figured I was going to die for sure. I even overheard them)

June 29 '79 I accidentally stepped into nothingness from the top of a 3 story building with an armload of bricks cutting off the use of my legs.

Somehow the way I was twisted pulled the spine open enough to snap the bones back in place.

:eek: :eek: How can so much happen to one guy? Nice time for the wife to tell you it's over. Wow what a story, glad you are ok!

[carnuck]

Had a car fall on my head Jan 95 (Duvall, WA quake knocked the civic off axle stands) that pushed my right eye out of it's socket (doc shoved it back in and I had double vision for over a year) and I lost several pints of blood from the rupturing of my left ear (basal skull fracture from the eye socket across the top to the back. Doctors figured I was going to die for sure. I even overheard them)

June 29 '79 I accidentally stepped into nothingness from the top of a 3 story building with an armload of bricks cutting off the use of my legs.

Somehow the way I was twisted pulled the spine open enough to snap the bones back in place.

:eek: :eek: How can so much happen to one guy? Nice time for the wife to tell you it's over. Wow what a story, glad you are ok!

 

There is a LOT more craziness to my life story (I grew up on a farm, did the rodeo circuit, skydiving and spent some time in the military). Those were just the interrupts to my driving! LOL!

[JeepcoMJ]

eesh...carnuck that's really bad...

 

 

OK so i went to the doctor again today for a follow-up appointment on my ankle thinking i would be cleared to work (already scheduled for the next 2 weeks) and i WASN'T!

 

so i fractured it most definitely on march 15th. and now i have loose bone fragments. hell of it is, i don't feel any pain in my ankle. i can walk run, drive, stomp on it twist, turn, whatever. but because it's a worker's comp. issue, i can't be cleared until it's healed. so 6 more weeks...shista. now i have to get all my shifts covered, and keep on pushin the worker's comp. for my checks (i have only recieved 2 weeks worth in the past month) because i haven't any other money to spend due to paying a lawyer to fix a entirely different issue for me (completely necessary).

 

so i thought i sprained my ankle at one job, and was worried that it will be a problem with the other job, so i went to the doc. explicitly to get a doctor's note so i could take a week off. turned into THIS. i feel great...and would not hesitate to work if the doc. said i could.

 

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