A cautionary tale about injuries

[Humptulips]

Just got back from the doctor yesterday with some bad news about my foot. Doctor says it looks like you must have broken this foot at some time. Ring a bell? I remember it well, happened about 18 years ago. I can stll remember what the log looks like that I was walking down when it happened. Trouble is I can't work on it and it is going to take a plie of money to fix and a lot of time layed up. Heck I been running a spread cat lately and even that is about more then I can stand for a whole day.

Now for the cautionary part. I didn't go to the doctor at the time and didn't get it put on L&I. Hey I'm tough and I can limp around, grit my teeth and work through it. Besides I didn't think they could get by without me at the time. Eventually figured out I wasn't indespensible. Logging seemed to go on without me after I couldn't do it anymore so I finally figured that one out.

Now I can't claim it as a logging accident and can't get insurance to pay for it.

Moral of the story is always no matter how tough you think you are, if you hurt yourself get it looked at and get it documented.

 

[GASoline71]

Back injury for me... eons ago. But now it's bad enuff that I'm OOC for most anything I really like or want to do. 2 Herniated discs. When I aggrivate them and they swell... one pinches my sciatic nerve and my toes go numb and tingle in my right foot. I really should check on havin' an operation to get them "fixed".

Sucks about the L&I dude... I think everybody I know has grit their teeth and worked through injuries that are more serious than they really realize. Me included.

Keep your chin up mang... not much more I can add...

Gary

 

[Jacob J.]

Gritting your teeth and working through injuries was necessary 100 years ago, but it's a fool's game now. A good friend of my dad's (they fell timber together in the 60's and 70's) died two years ago because he got hit by a tree and didn't go in to the doctor. He got a massive bruise on his hip and two blood clots worked loose from it and went up into his heart and lungs and killed him in his sleep.

 

[Cletuspsc]

Yea i know where your commin from. . . . Im just on the other side of a hernia right now. . . .

I got wacked a few years ago by a snag and ended up gettin a nerve pinched in my butt/hip along with a dislocated sholder and some broken ribs .. . . but i never did any thing about the nerve because it just dident bother me at the time, now i cant sit on it more than about an hour with out my whole leg down to my toes goin numb, and limbin pine out sucks if i turn just "worng."

Just grin an bare it is about what i do

-steve