Well shit!

[transpao]

I was sent home from work today on a workers comp. I can't go back until at least Tuesday. I apparently have a back strain.


I'm not sure I am going to be able to participate in the Babies walk tomorrow. This totally bites. I'm trying to figure out a way... maybe a wheelchair? but I'm afraid rolling myself is going to put just as much work on my back though maybe not as much on my low back. Can any of ya'll think of anything I can do?

I just hope the Doc says I can go back to work on Tuesday. WC doesn't pay unless you have to be out 14 or more days so I have to use vacation and sick time until then.

Comments

[aummaster.livejournal.com]

crawl? It is a babies walk and all...
:)
What is it for? I mean babies? Is is a walk to prevent child abuse or some other such thing?

Feel better and do not burn up too many sick days.
Have a fun weekend!

[paosparti.livejournal.com]

um... it's to fight prematurity that's what march of times is about. I was gunna walk in memory of my still born twin and as someone who was born more than 3 months premie. the funds also go for helping parents pay the extremely high cost of caring for priemie babies.

[paosparti.livejournal.com]

And I am definitely not TRYing to miss any more days. Iw as trying to talk work into letting me plant but they said it would be against medical advice and forced me to go home.

[aummaster.livejournal.com]

Sound like a defensive answer.
Did I hit a nerve by accident?
I was looking for an eye roll and a smile.

[aummaster.livejournal.com]

I did not know it was march of dimes.
I thought premature babies was something that more or less just happens. Are the causes known and treatable?

Yeah the cost of premature babies (both on their later health and on the parents financially) is pretty rough.

[paosparti.livejournal.com]

It's a sensitive issue. I have a lot of health problems and work keeps trying to bully me about time off to see doctors and what not. They act like I'm sick just to piss them off, and it's very frustrating because obviously I'd love to be able to be healthy enough to work all the time and never miss any time. I mean do they really think i enjoy wasting all my vacation time seeing doctors because I've already run out of sick time? and the answer is mainly that they just don't care. And while I don't necessarily think it's their problem that I'm ill and I understand the perspective that they need me to be in work or they wouldn't have hired me, I can't help the fact that I have poorer than average health, I do a damn good job when I am there to the point that half the time I don't have anything to do because I've done everything, and I need a job just like everyone else, in fact more so because I have to pay for all my bloody doctors bills, but don't qualify for government assistance or even SSI because I'm not a quadruple amputee drooling on myself.

[paosparti.livejournal.com]

http://www.marchforbabies.org/whereyourmoneygoes.aspx?link=42698Title has some of the explanation of what kinds of research they have already done and what the donations now are going towards.

Like a great deal of the reason for my being born early was that my mother had almost complete renal failure. Which first of all prevented her being diagnosed as pregnant until I was already at 4 months gestation and they only found us then because they x-rayed her abdomen looking for gallstones. She kept telling the docs she was preggers but the tests wouldn't come back positive so they told her she was crazy and treated her for other stuff. and her body continued to get poisoned as I'm sure Alex and I did. From what I understand there was some sort of defect in how the umbilical cord split (we were identical twins) that resulted in Alexandria's death. They left me in for 4 days more because the best place for a developing baby is in mom, but as my sisters corpse began to decompose the amniotic fluid became toxic so they had to pull me out. but I was so tiny and under developed I had a lung collapse, brain damage, and couldn't eat. anywho they more they learn about why pregnant women get renal failure and other kidney issues they better they can prevent it. The more research that goes into technology for keeping primeies alive the more babies they can save. The more knowledge they obtain on how and why embryos split the more likely they can prevent defects like our umblical cord issue, or at least detect it early enough to possibly support the undernourished baby. I'll admit they are lofty goals, but I know its got to be worth it, and I know that I received some of the best care available at the time and that lots of other mom and dads that didn't have my parents resources lost babies they really wanted.

Oh I had a donation badge on my journal a few weeks ago I thought you had seen it.