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Two Months Ago, I Literally Broke My Back For My Company.

Hi guys. I work in the oil and gas industry for an unnamed company. We're contracted to do different kinds of work; sometimes we'll do a rig up/rig down (swing sledge hammers, carry iron pipes etc, sometimes we'll work in pairs doing comparatively easier work at pads that are in production, sometimes Weedeating etc.

Anyways, two months ago (it was either the 17 or 18th) a few of us were doing an out of state rig down at a pad. Halfway through the first day, I'm carrying a ten-foot 2inch pipe as per usual, and the containment (think heavy duty plastic thing) I step in has been frosted over and my right leg goes outwards, and the rest of me goes down. I walk/limp it off. That night at the hotel room, I can barely get to the bathroom. I figured I'd pulled a muscle, and just assume that it would be better after I sleep and wake up. Nope.

My company took me off of the schedule for three weeks. Only after did they mention some kind of 'low earnings ' paperwork that they didn't mail me. Three weeks unpaid, I finally return to work thinking I'm all better and I'm not. It just starts to hurt more every day. I finally get talked into going to the ER. They do a cat scan and the doctor tells me that my L5 is herniated, my vascal lateralis muscles on both thighs are torn and strained. I take some more unpaid time off work. Finally see orthopedic, they scheduled me for physical therapy which was earlier today, and they're mentioning the same L5, thigh muscles and now something about things being out of alignment.

Anyways. My company doesn't care, and they haven't been able to commit to finding me 'light duty's jobs. I've never had an injury that has already lasted two months and more time to go.

What should I do? I'm not trying to get a welfare check in the mail, but I'm also not too prideful to just keep on 'sucking it up'. The last two months, every time I've come back to make up some hours, I always feel like my legs are worse off than before. Just earlier tonight I was using a broom handle as a walking stick to get to the bathroom.

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Two Months Ago, I Literally Broke My Back For My Company.

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