I plan once I get benefits through a gig I last longer than 3 months are that I get my right leg checked out to see if any future complications come about. Back in 96 when I worked for UBS I was hired as a loader/unloader. The officials saw that I was slower than the others and due to the union I was with they couldn’t get rid of me easily. They tried to put me on other shifts but they couldn’t use me either when all so they put me on crusty jobs like sweeping for small sort, stacking totes and working the garbage compactor.
Anyway, on my job as a Garbage compactor monitor I got the totes ready as well for some of the loaders to take away and use. This particular day this nut comes through with an 8 car caddy having a ball. He comes in and takes the totes away. He’s successful but then in a small corridor he tries to back up and turn around after 20 minutes he does but at my expense. The last car of his caddy ricochets off a metal pillar and hits me in the shin area of my leg. I grab my leg and lower to my knees the pain was kinda heavy to stand on it. The idiot hears me and get out his caddy and approaches me. “Did I hit you dude?”
“Hell yeah you hit me!”
“heh, uhh…Sorry man!”
Then he gets back in the caddy and drives off.
Five minutes later I try to continue to work on it thinking I have a high threshold for pain; but the throbbing & slight swelling sets in and that was that. I went to my manager at the time and the first sentence that comes out his mouth is “Can you still work?” whatever. I went home and for a good 5 days the swelling lingered. I didnt file a workers injury or anything which I know was my fault. I could walk but with a limp for a good 2 weeks. I even bought a cane to help myself. I did all that but see a doctor. By now I realize it was probably broken. Because I let it heal on its own without support, I hope it doesn’t make things bad for me as I get older.