MouseWedger
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Hi all.
My doctor cleared me to go back to work yesterday, I get to bring my note in today. I'm really excited about getting to go back, but at the same time really worried. I got hurt at work in December last year, and things weren't nearly as bad in the facility as they were when I went in for a meeting in August...
I'm jumping ahead of myself. I work in a juvenile detention facility as direct care staff. My job is, on most days, to be a glorified babysitter while these kids do their time. On a bad day, it's my job to jump in and take control by physical means - to restrain these kids, to physically move them from place to place when they don't want to. I'm not a petite woman, but I'm not the hulk either, and in reality I'm only about the same size as any one of the average kids in my building, which houses only males. They have nothing to do with their time other than to work out in the gym that they have access to, and to play ball in the gym when they can use the weight room, something I don't have the luxury of doing like they do. This is why I got hurt last year. We had a riot and I had to step in to help regain control of the situation. The kid I had to restrain and pull away from the others was the same size as me height wise, and much stronger than me. When he realized who was pulling him away he pulled back, and I tried to hang on which caused my shoulder to jar and the bones to move in my shoulder. Now they're too close and they pinch nerves when I move my arm. I went back for a while for light duty and things were so much worse than they were when I first got hurt. After my light duty was up I had to return to staying home until August when we had a rightsizing and I had to go in to see if I was losing my job or not. When I went in for the rightsizing, things in the facility had gotten so bad that at one point state police were called with riot gear and staff were airlifted to hospitals. Last I knew the facility was so short on staff everyone was working doubles four nights a week.
So, after the state officially gives me the OK to be on shift again, my facility needs to find a place to plug me in and I'm going back. Could be as early as next Wednesday. I'm excited because it means I can get out of my in-laws house soon, they're making me so crazy, but I'm terrified of getting hurt again. I'm so all over the place, my hands are shaking and I can't sleep. I feel almost manic and I can't stand it. I think since I got released I'm going to go apply for a gym membership today and see if I can blow some of this nervous energy off...
My doctor cleared me to go back to work yesterday, I get to bring my note in today. I'm really excited about getting to go back, but at the same time really worried. I got hurt at work in December last year, and things weren't nearly as bad in the facility as they were when I went in for a meeting in August...
I'm jumping ahead of myself. I work in a juvenile detention facility as direct care staff. My job is, on most days, to be a glorified babysitter while these kids do their time. On a bad day, it's my job to jump in and take control by physical means - to restrain these kids, to physically move them from place to place when they don't want to. I'm not a petite woman, but I'm not the hulk either, and in reality I'm only about the same size as any one of the average kids in my building, which houses only males. They have nothing to do with their time other than to work out in the gym that they have access to, and to play ball in the gym when they can use the weight room, something I don't have the luxury of doing like they do. This is why I got hurt last year. We had a riot and I had to step in to help regain control of the situation. The kid I had to restrain and pull away from the others was the same size as me height wise, and much stronger than me. When he realized who was pulling him away he pulled back, and I tried to hang on which caused my shoulder to jar and the bones to move in my shoulder. Now they're too close and they pinch nerves when I move my arm. I went back for a while for light duty and things were so much worse than they were when I first got hurt. After my light duty was up I had to return to staying home until August when we had a rightsizing and I had to go in to see if I was losing my job or not. When I went in for the rightsizing, things in the facility had gotten so bad that at one point state police were called with riot gear and staff were airlifted to hospitals. Last I knew the facility was so short on staff everyone was working doubles four nights a week.
So, after the state officially gives me the OK to be on shift again, my facility needs to find a place to plug me in and I'm going back. Could be as early as next Wednesday. I'm excited because it means I can get out of my in-laws house soon, they're making me so crazy, but I'm terrified of getting hurt again. I'm so all over the place, my hands are shaking and I can't sleep. I feel almost manic and I can't stand it. I think since I got released I'm going to go apply for a gym membership today and see if I can blow some of this nervous energy off...
