Is there a conspiracy against my medical condition simply because two so-called "proven" examinations turned out generally negative?
I mentioned a week or so ago about the MRI and EMG tests on my back turning out negative, ruling out surgery. But worker's compensation continues their charade, basically implying the injury is faked. I would love for them to come by and see me try to walk around this house first thing in the morning, or in the afternoon when I attempt my household chores. Consistent limping can't be faked.
Actually, let me take that back about someone visiting me for that purpose. I received a surprise visit from someone about that at the clinic earlier today, and darn if I nearly melted down to a 2005 level.
Waiting for the doctor to perform my recheck, a woman shows up (actually, barges through the door), and ask if I'm Kevin. Well, with that rapid heartbeat of mine making itself known due to the shock, I basically say "who wants to know?" Turns out she's the case nurse making a visit.
Case nurses making a visit have happened to me once before. This was when she flat-out told the attending doctor that the injury was a total fake job, and I was to return to work at once. We all know what happened next.
This woman was a complete psycho. Asking me stupid, unrelated questions, lecturing me that I wasn't signing forms right and talking down like I was a first-grader, saying I was illiterate for not being able to pronounce my medications (they're 14 letters long, for pete's sake), racing around the office demanding the doctor interrupt his peer conference call because she had to "be somewhere", and when she wasn't talking, staring me right in the face with a stupid look on hers. And what am I supposed to say, "glad to know you?"
This woman is not related to anyone or employed by the clinic I go to. Yet it seemed that she possessed the iron fist in her mind, and the staff would have to scurry around and cater to her every whim. I swear she made those staff members as jumpy as she was making me. I could even tell a sense of aggravation on the doctor's part.
The case nurse was begging for a chance to get me back to work before my time. And boy, did the doctor prove her wrong. Not only did he mention that I had a ways to go and I would likely need those epidural injections, but upon examination of my toe resistance exercise, he noticed the left foot has weakened considerably in just the last two weeks. This does not bode well. And it didn't fit the script of the nurse, who shut her mouth after that. Defeated, I take it.
I go to retrieve my prescriptions and paperwork and go to leave, and she said "you're not going anywhere." Who is she, my trainer? I shot her an acid look and left under my own power regardless. Hey, she complains she has somewhere to be... well, so do I: home!
Whenever I do go off worker's compensation, I will leave a detailed message over there completely trashing them for the lack of care and concern they have provided; not only to me but also co-workers who have been burned by the manager's idiocy. A friend of mine knows a worker's comp. referee and believe me, I may put him to good use.
Maybe surprise parties are out of the question for my future... you tell me.
