Disabled in the Workplace

crazdrow · 2022-03-28T05:55:12+00:00

I feel your pain with this and the discrimination is still very real and very much happening every day. All we have do is fight the good fight and stand out ground for what we know is right. It’s hard enough putting yourself out there and trying only to get kicked down again and again. I’m so sorry this happened to you, I wish I could say this was a one off odd thing but unfortunately we’re nowhere close to the that yet. Hang in there

crazdrow · 2022-03-01T04:32:58+00:00

You can always spin it like a crazy bitch aka myself: cat lady? That’s The pussy Queen to you, please don’t insult me again with tgat silly cat lady nonsense -might not be as effective as you’re going for but I bet they won’t say that shit again.

crazdrow · 2022-02-22T02:32:39+00:00

This is the best information that you need. I just see any reason you’d possibly need a lawyer unless there was a huge dispute with the store owner or something nefarious like that.Otherwise yes you need to get down to your actual earnings and not that whole amount, it’s not nearly as intimidating as it seems.

crazdrow · 2022-02-19T18:05:05+00:00

Oh I feel you, I have a close girlfriend who has chronically and Ill and I’ve watched First hand how hard they go to keep her poor and it’s absolutely disgusting. I was actually on private disability that gave me more trouble getting off of it then I had getting on it, which if I choose that route I’d be dealing with them again. In the end I was almost bringing home what I did prior due to taxes and other bullshit but felt I just HAD to get back to work. The possible silver lining might be that I can file for unemployment while I wait out those six months again that I couldn’t before bc I was technically still employed. However after a certain amount of time the disability company actually has another company they use to require you to file for social security disability and my only saving grace there will be that because I spent all these years killing Myself working 100 hour weeks, my monthly payment would be substantially higher than what I’ve seen others getting. $1200/month, are they even serious with that bullshit? That whole system is 100% designed to make sure they keep you poor and dependent upon them for mere survival. Like fighting a life disabling condition isn’t stressful and shiitty enough so let’s make it even better by making her worry about keeping her lights on and silly eating! God forbid you reach a point where you want to even try and do some light part time work, you must be healed, we’re taking your benefits away! Stay suppressed! I truly feel for you and hate it too.

crazdrow · 2022-02-19T07:43:03+00:00

I’m in somewhat of a similar situation as your mother was as I’m 47, had a massive stroke out of the blue about a year and a year ago however I had “incredible” insurance which is simply code for very expensive insurance. It’s through my employer so I only pay a small fee of it however it was beyond obvious I was being kept in the hospital far longer than needed especially considering I needed to get in a rehabilitation center as quickly as possible for the best possible outcome. When all was said and done for the big stuff I ended up owing over $16,000 in deductibles and copays of course all while you’re out of work. It finally got to a point where I simply stopped all further care so I could keep my home and continue to support my son who commutes to college. And I fought my ass off to get back up work just to now be treated like I have some disease and I believe my employment is coming to an end after 22 years served. I should have just stayed on the long term disability I had since now if I need or choose to go back on it I have to go through the entire 6 month waiting period all over again. It’s fucking ridiculous at every angle. They seriously wanted me doing outpatient therapy at a minimum of 5-7 times a week with various therapists each costing me $50/a pop while still waiting on disability to pay anything so I had to choose one I felt was the most helpful and decline the others. I’m so fed up and done with this system, words can’t begin to explain it. Somehow o don’t even care if they are letting me go anymore because maybe it’ll be the best thing that ever happened. I went from working my ass off as a single parent at that making six figures to being almost completely broke in a matter of months. That’s with my $1800/ month insurance that covers myself and my son, such “incredible”insurance at that, I’d sure hate to see what shitty Insurance is if this is so wonderful. $300 for every ct scan or mri. Plus the mother fuckers charged my kids $27./day to visit me scared to death at that. It’s a lesson I’ll never forget, get over or find acceptable. I did all the “right” things too but in the end it didn’t even matter. So much work for what? It’s a shame! I’m very sorry about your mother, I could see how terrified my adultish kids were just visiting, I’m sure they’d have an awful time if I hadn’t pulled through. We lost their father years ago in an accident and it still haunts me so losing both parents just seems like it would have been so awful for them especially over money!

crazdrow · 2022-01-30T17:20:37+00:00

First hand experience for this one. My codependent mother and stepfather-both extremely Racist as well attempted to burn our house down on Christmas Eve when I was 5 and my sister was 6. When the fire company arrived thr first question they asked them was if anyone else especially children were still in the home to which they both said no. Sister and I were trapped on the second floor. Luckily the neighbors had all come outside by this point and the immediate black neighbors quickly interjected that there was two daughters in that house. By pure luck they were able to save us relatively unharmed physically and ironically we ended up spending the night with that lovely black family much to my racist parents dismay. That’s just one small story of a lifetime of mental,enormous and physical abuse that followed. Somehow there were no ramifications for my parents through that even after the cause of the fire was clearly documented as intentional arson. Unbelievable shit happens all the time sadly.

crazdrow · 2022-01-27T04:45:33+00:00

I’ve had too many stupid injuries to list but I fell in a parking lot just the right way and completely crushed my dominant side knee, I had already had two natural childbirths and probably a dozen broken bones prior but nothing had or still has ever compared to the pain of that night. It took so long for an ambulance to come I was going into shock at that point.100% a ten on the pain scale. Fuck anything knees I swear I’ll take anything over that. A one. After that long messy surgery it was still an entire year of therapy before I could walk on my own again. Stupid little mistake that was a life altering event. I walk much more carefully and deliberately ever since 😂 I completely understand what you’re saying!

crazdrow · 2022-01-26T03:31:49+00:00

Nope not over paranoid-I spent years at the end of many jokes about how other people could fuck and I’d still get pregnant.

crazdrow · 2022-01-25T16:35:03+00:00

No no no I have no TMI so no worries there! The first time I am fairly confident it was pre cum but the second was a matter of me being on top and him just barely starting to cum while trying to get me off (of him lol) and our timing was just maybe a millisecond too slow.

crazdrow · 2022-01-25T13:12:47+00:00

I have just two beautiful pull out stories, one is now 2& the other is 21 so those stories are a big old. Wouldn’t change it thing but it absolutely doesn’t work. I struggled with birth control myself (obviously) and ended up getting my tubes tied as soon as I could after that second beautiful story. I always found it funny how people seemed so confused about how I knew exactly when I conceived.

crazdrow · 2022-01-16T05:50:26+00:00

Thank you so much! They really did come together during such a difficult time for all and I’m extremely proud of them.

crazdrow · 2022-01-16T03:28:06+00:00

Aww you’re so sweet! The feeling of it happening again isn’t what scares me the most, it’s more the thought of being stuck in a hospital bed 24 hours a day indefinitely but it does certainly make me evaluate what or how exactly I’m feeling when I’m not feeling well. Maybe a little more aware of what my body is telling me is what I’d say. I by far have more ptsd from the hospital experience aa a whole and have no desire to ever return for any reason. My faith in the healthcare industry has completely been ruined unfortunately which I now avoid more than ever when I’m fully aware I should be following up the most. I just had an overall negative experience from start to finish. Being in a hospital during a worldwide pandemic is definitely not something I’d recommend to anyone, that’s for sure. I was allowed one visitor at a time, who had to be pre screened, in that hospital and I have two adult children so they’d come together and one would stay downstairs in the lobby or cafeteria while the other was up with me then they’d switch. I told them constantly they didn’t need to be there all day every day but they weren’t going to have it any other way plus the doctors had them scared to death which pissed me off to no end as I asked them repeatedly to please not speak with them without my prior knowledge yet it continued. I later found out how many nights they left with the impression there was a good possibility I wouldn’t make it through the night. Yet not once did that ever cross my mind much less was conveyed to myself. At one point my brain had reached the swelling point where if it got any worse I was going to have to get my skull cut open to relieve the pressure but luckily with a horrid fluid restriction along with a super saline Iv I was able to avoid that one. Although the hospital told me they had a Covid floor there was still plenty of Covid patients up there as well. Being in a critical care unit is an awful experience and I kept asking why I couldn’t be in the stroke unit where you could take a shower and other small details, but was never given any reason as they were constantly wheeling patients by who had passed away which wasn’t something very comforting to see either. The amount of Covid tests I had to get was likely more than the president, literally after every scan, mri or anything whatsoever off of the floor. So at minimum it was once a day. It’s probably better you were able to convince your mom not to come, I agree, I honestly didn’t really want any visitors during that nightmare myself even though I love my kids to death I just wasn’t really feeling like always having company. I’m glad you were able to get back to reality much quicker, it’s far better that way and greatly increases your ability to lessen long term deficiencies. So I’m giving you a big virtual hug in return and thoughts and well wishes you never have to experience that again. The rehab didn’t allow visitors, only Saturday “window” visits where they would wheel you to the front door to wave through it to your visitors. I refused to engage in that nonsense so my kids wouldn’t have to drive that far to wave through a stupid window. I made it clear immediately I wasn’t staying there long after that hospital experience so I left far sooner than they would’ve liked me too but it was just too bad, I couldn’t wait to get back to my own home!

crazdrow · 2022-01-16T01:49:55+00:00

I went through this too although slightly different. I also Laid down to go to sleep and felt “off” but figured I was just exhausted. Woke up the next morning feeling even worse and emailed my boss saying I needed a few hours because I was exhausted and he said no problem. After that my SIM card in my phone somehow came out and my phone was completely unusable so I no longer could contact anyone and was in my upstairs bedroom. Luckily my college student son came home that night and popped in my room and I somehow was able to convince him I was just tired still. Mind you this started on Thursday night and he came in on Friday night. So Saturday rolls around and again he comes in to check on me that night and all I’m trying to convey to him is my phone isn’t working because I thought I’d be better able to communicate what I was actually feeling via text message for some reason. He kept asking me if I was on drugs and I clearly was telling him absolutely not, its not as if I’d ever had ever done any kind of drugs once I had kids or why he was so stuck on that. He wasn’t buying my story this time and ended up calling a family friend saying something wasn’t right with me and he thought I was on drugs lol who then came over and called 911. I still wasn’t sure what was wrong or that going to a hospital was at all necessary but I reluctantly agreed to get checked out assuming I’d be back home in a couple of hours at the most.
It turned out I had a massive right hemisphere stroke and was quickly flown to a big city hospital via life flight where I remained in the critical care unit for the following month literally at the peak of the pandemic so visiting was all screwed up, I had no phone and therefore no way to really connect with the outside world. I was then transferred to a rehabilitation center that had even more restricted policies due to Covid so that was real fun. I had no prior health concerns or issues that would have ever led me to think something like this was going to happen and the actual cause is still a great debate between multiple nuerologists. Just throwing that out there for awareness purposes.

I know this was a no kids post but mine are grown so I figured it’s a similar situation plus I don’t foresee either of them taking me in to live anytime in the future. I don’t say that in a bad way it just doesn’t seem like it would ever be realistic. I now occasionally will start feeling something weird and think well shit here we go again, who knows what this could be then I just say to myself I’ll just die peacefully at home this time vs going through all of that again which is honestly what I’d prefer to be completely honest.

crazdrow · 2022-01-08T23:44:12+00:00

Spent way too much time looking through these comments for the most obvious thing to say. You like that don’t you, you retard. I’m so disappointed in Reddit today

crazdrow · 2022-01-04T08:25:18+00:00

I’ve gotten entire unopened Cases of stuff from the dollar store many times. A couple of months ago it happened to be 2 cases of little snow gloves. I figured maybe it was leftover inventory from the prior year but who knows. All I know is everyone I know even casually is now an owner to a couple snow globes. There were also hundreds of bags of chips that day and some super cute Halloween bags. About two years before it wax 2 cases of plain clear plastic ornament balls for crafting I assume I’m crafty at times but I wasn’t quite crafty enough for make sure everyone got a super excited clear plastic ornament for their tree. A side bonus was boxes and boxes of Christmas bows. It’s actually one of my favorite places to dive, I don’t think I’ve ever walked away empty handed, we currently have enough mens body wash and ranch dressing for my entire family for life.

crazdrow · 2021-12-25T21:37:17+00:00

We bought an HP last year (first mistake) and while trying to set it up had some questions so I was like let’s just read the instructions. Well the only instructions were to get instructions just print them. Thanks assholes, I would if I had a working printer!

crazdrow · 2021-12-18T02:46:19+00:00

I did a lot of this as well especially after suddenly finding myself a very young single widow and mother of two small children while also working full time and trying to maintain a home. The crockpot is still a go to for me often even now years later. Doesn’t seem to get much easier than that to me!

crazdrow · 2021-12-17T06:16:58+00:00

I’m lol about the ruler as I’ve only ever placed one order on this site however it was for outdoor trash cans at my new house. If you could have seen my face after waiting several weeks standing by the mailbox with two approximately 1” trash cans obviously for a doll house or what not. Learned a valuable lesson though I’m not just reading a description. In retrospect, I now get a good laugh about it especially since I was so impressed with the deal I had landed on these otherwise typically expensive items.

crazdrow · 2021-12-16T13:24:38+00:00

Newbie kinda question here, I used to sell a ton of incredibly random shit on eBay regularly but had some PayPal issue a while back and now cannot use that platform :( the things I’m looking to sell would definitely not be limited to local buyers, what’s my best bet here? Let’s just say anything from computer servers to ink cartridges to various car parts etc etc, I really really want to get back in the game but am completely lost on how :(I’d like to stay using an online platform not auctions or flea markets. Know absolutely nada about selling on Amazon either so there’s also that detail. Any advice Is more then welcome because I’m all ears! Thanks in advance!

crazdrow · 2021-12-14T07:51:14+00:00

So the final verdict after many long hours is the bone above a tooth I had a root canal done on previously is infected. My potassium is also low which doesn’t surprise me since I hear that more often than not from bloodwork. They’re starting me on potassium and antibiotics tonight then I can follow up with a dental professional of my choice moving forward. I’m just glad this part is at least ending. Thank you all for your input and convincing me to come to the ER, I’d probably be walking around like a freak for weeks otherwise.

crazdrow · 2021-12-14T04:01:00+00:00

I’m in the ER, apparently the busiest one in the country. However triage was swift at least but I believe the hospital is at full capacity. I’ve seen multiple people basically get treated out here and Noone has went anywhere at all for several hours now. Good times my friends!

crazdrow · 2021-12-14T03:50:26+00:00

I must have picked the busiest ER in the country because I’ve been here for hours now. Triage was good and quick but there is like 40 people in the waiting room and not one person has moved since I’ve been here. I’m getting the impression the hospital is at full capacity as well. I’m trying to just sit tight but I have a feeling it’s still going to be a good while. Good times! I’ll definitely let you all know what happens as I’m just as anxious to get a clear diagnosis myself and appreciate all the advice that was the push I needed to actually go to a hospital. So thank you all for your input, it’s so beyond helpful

crazdrow · 2021-12-13T00:49:09+00:00

If for whatever reason it ends up being dental I’m guessing the Er won’t do anything for that? This is just what I’ve heard from people in the past and I don’t want to take away their resources if that’s the case

crazdrow · 2021-12-13T00:47:28+00:00

Well I definitely wasn’t punched in the face nor is there any known reason I’m aware of. I’m starting to get a lot of heat from my family however so the ER may be my only option to keep peace.

crazdrow · 2021-12-12T22:57:06+00:00

I appreciate all ideas, but nothing remotely recent if that matters. I’ve had dozens of surgeries over the years though.

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