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[Mickyj]

Your employer is dodgy as ****.

I feel they will get their right whack with your lawyer and union

Gotta say in this state if you get injured at a work Xmas function it's work cover
I went to a work awards function according to work I wasn't getting an award no need for me to be there .
This year first time in my 21 years there no invitations sent out a worker in the office walked around the 51 employees of my section . 11 of us said yes .
To me that's me getting invited not so says work .
And the insurer didn't want to answer yes or no I was getting calls from work every week come back on light duties .
Now when I got that call from the insurer and I was directed to the unions lawyer . He called them Xmas week they complained but assured him they would contact me with a letter saying yes or no by Xmas day 2015 .
I contacted the lawyer Jan 4 told him no letter .
Funny enough work called me oh the insurer needs more time to consider I blurted out oh so they lied to my lawyer ,
What you have a lawyer that went over badly . Cause I added in they kept saying go on sickness benefits I can't until the insurer says no .
So I got one of two emails from the insurer that said roughly we see your returning to work we've helped you please fill in the survey .
Once I saw it called up the lawyer he said don't fill it in .
That's when he told me they had sent him a letter and he had called them it's a no to work cover and they have sent me a no letter .
The following week same email
And the lawyer sent me papers to sign
Also had help from a social worker to fill in papers for Centrelink my GP gave me a month off until Feb1 ,
Rehab therapists said no way got me in earlier to see rehab doc filled in Centrelink papers and a sick cert for work until April 25 .
But still work causes a hassle social worker needs a letter saying I have a job to go back to of course that person is on leave funny that .

[Mickyj]

Oh the no letter was two weeks ago guess what hasn't come to me still

[Mickyj]

I havent received my pay slip emailed to me this week yet i do wonder if it will come

[Mickyj]

Ok I'm a little confused here social worker had to contact my work they were under the impression I wasn't returning to work.
The people who said no workcover come back on light duties now .
Ok so my social worker had to talk to them over a letter saying I'd have a job to return to .
Oh no work needs to know the exact time and date I'm returning . Social worker said that's a bit hard to say just yet . He suggested she talk to two of the therapists as the doctor says when .
Now the person from work is supposed to call me after I spoke to the social worker on the phone I had to give him some paper work . Had she called me it was an hour after he called me nope not yet .
There biggest argument they don't think I can work were I was going to send me somewhere else but need to know now am I full time part time .
My god hey you get traumatic brain injury at a work function and it's oh he won't work his job of 21 years .
Funny when I've asked to move no no no

[Mickyj]

Perhaps I posted that to early .
Ok work just called
They still need to know the exact date and time I'm coming back to work
And what I can do
Even after she was told by social worker they can't tell yet .
Cause they need to know if I can do my job or be moved
Geez lucky I had a traumatic brain injury and not something serious lol
My life hey

[Mickyj]

Now I have recovered from yesterdays phone call those that dont know me in real life . yes i got stressed and so much more head pain from the stress.
Couple of things Firstly
1work told by a social worker who works for the therapy rehab place theres no set date time or what i can do when i return
2 So they pushed me for the same information i told them same ,
Still they need to know the date time and when im returning
3 They didnt like my certificate saying I had a traumatic brain injury . Me i did say its the truth i was hurt sober at a work function . didnt go over that i said i was sober as i dont drink
4 While they kept telling me from phone call one to get sickness benefits which i couldnt until the insurer said no to workcover im still awaiting the letter theyve sent my lawyer . But they are now going on i need to talk to someone if i have to i will but only if its private and not reported to work . Which like being married its like a wife finding something out lol

And while they know i have a lawyer they havent said they know whats going on i aint saying

[Mickyj]

Got my third CT scan thursday and Friday my first eye appointment (second one is on a six month waiting list )
Therapists are trying to get me ready for work its a slow process . Eye appointments are needed hopefully they'll be good i get my license back.

Not sure about my employer still needing to know when im returning exact date time what i can do, Work keeps saying i maybe moved to a different job . Ive asked social worker has asked therapists have asked they will not say what this other job is .
This from work makes it hard for the therapists to get me ready for work

I should add hopefully this CT scan will say yes or no to a fractured cheek bone one area of pain daily

[Wedgie]

Good luck mate, I hope everything sorts itself out and is back to normal soon, sounds like you've been through hell!

[Mickyj]

Good luck mate, I hope everything sorts itself out and is back to normal soon, sounds like you've been through hell!

Thanks Wedgie
I have no clue about my hospital stay except kids were told I may pass .
So I've come along it just takes time it's a head injury until it happens you never know .
I feel ok do something like a therapy session and I'm exhausted
Just takes time

[MW]

My missus had viral meningitis over Jan (2 weeks in hospital) and she's still a bit spacey in the head even now so can't imagine what you're going through. Hope for a speedy recovery.

[Mickyj]

My missus had viral meningitis over Jan (2 weeks in hospital) and she's still a bit spacey in the head even now so can't imagine what you're going through. Hope for a speedy recovery.

I'm getting there slowly gotta remember things like walk slow .
If I need to turn my head at a supermarket walk to a shelf stop and look . I didn't Sunday fierce pain attack .
One of my biggest issues fatigue I get so tired my CT scan 10 min walk there and back to the parked car I was knackered .
Still get light headed pain is non stop basically. Kids have said I've stopped repeating myself over and over lol .
Memory isn't the best still
As my main therapist said I look normal talk normal after 10 mins talking I look like I'm going to collapse in sleep .

I know it all sounds good but it's a slow process for me and I'd say your wife .
I detest laying down eye spins corners in cars or buses aren't good
I'll get there I do wish my employer would understand brain injuries and perhaps my mum she has no idea I basically almost fall over in house each visit on the weekend

[Mickyj]

I should say I'm still confused by the employer but if I say what I think even I think I'm paranoid lol .
I think I've said I still lost my car license tomorrow I see the first eye doctor second one takes 6 months to get in .
Not much I can do there .
Work didn't sound impressed lol .
They kept saying we have a new job for you but didn't like me saying I've lost my license thanks to the brain injury .
Still I have issues
But three people including me asking what's the new job all I could hear was crickets .
So there u go I do think it's get me back then sack me they can't do it until I return cause right now it would be wrongful dismissal .
Who think they'd go like this after a brain injury at their work function

[Mickyj]

Ok had to see a specialist for my lawyer
I found it strange he couldnt understand why i wasnt driving the govt and Docs took my license away ive seen one eye doctor who says im ok to drive but another eye professor to see takes 6 mnths to get in
Why arent you working your work cover wasnt accepted i have a cert until april 25
Honestly you cant work if your not cleared well that what im told he cant get over me not working cause im not getting paid .
I did say am i still employed then if im not paid he had no idea
He did see my injury on the CT scan and what the Docs report said
My memory issues my loss of smell and taste

While i was there my eldest heard the same insurer had told one other patient no to work cover

[Mickyj]

Ok just a quick post yesterdays lawyers specialist meeting was better than last week.
Last week it was you should be at work and why aren't you driving .
This time it was ill get your lawyer to fight very hard for you to be on work cover and it will be awhile before your able to return to work.
While i wasn't totally bad in the tests i wasn't totally good either.
And he explained my changes and words i had issues saying
So there you go ill stop rambling in this post lol

[Mickyj]

Ok I'm confused now work saying I've got what they said wrong . She's emailed my therapist told them my info is wrong and they will check out my work place 1 st of March ,
I swear they said come back on light duties or get sickness benefits or if I can't do my old job a new job ,
And this person will call me weekly
I swear that's what she said

[mighty_tiger_79]

That's what she said

Just backpedaling at a rate of knots

[Mickyj]

That's what she said

Just backpedaling at a rate of knots

I am or they are
They both spoke to me on the phone day two out of rehab on the same call .
Saying come back on light duties when I said I can't with out seeing the rehab doctor in three months the boss said get sickness benefits.
Then their insurer called me saying they tell me when to go back to work I needed to take money from the
Until they decide yes or no if no had to pay it back so I didn't
I called the union put me onto the lawyer
Honestly I heard what they said in a nicey nicey way
Every week except for the last three weeks
Get sickness benefits
Light duties
New job
Now they are saying I'm wrong

[mighty_tiger_79]

They are backpedaling

[Mickyj]

They are backpedaling

Ahh yeah I calm now
You maybe correct
I do wonder if the insurer had told them my lawyer is fighting them

[Mickyj]

A very quick update doctor wrote permanent injury on my certificate I didn't notice .
So Centrelink no to sickness benefits
But Newstart incapacitated benefits

I have no clue
But life's like a box of chocolates