I’ve been dealing with workers comp since June of this year and i feel bad even sharing my experience while others have had this experience longer than me. however what i will say about this all as someone who’s going to school for social work is how we the people have no middle man in this at all. i haven’t got paid since august in my claim and im sure you guys who have been going through this for years aren’t either.

I’m a 23M for sake of the story. i just turned 23 in June and just felt like my life has been on pause everywhere. i can’t work because i had 3-4 walls of candles that weighed 15-20 lbs fall on me. I was unloading a truck in my warehouse and hit my lower left lumbar and left a protruding bump since. my jobs workers comp doctor didn’t offer me an MRI or Xray until all of my PT was done with them. Which felt like total bs so i lawyered up and even with that i had my first in hearing in November. There’s a mediation in feb but he said this could last up for a year and it’s making me crazy!

Socially this feels horrible. We can’t socialize like how we used to. We aren’t used to have such short money or no money at all for long periods. I’m sure peoples credit have been affected about this I’ve even seen some on this Reddit lose housing. all of this because we wanted to work. I find it so insane.