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How long off work with broken toe?

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turkishly · 21/09/2015 14:37

Hi there.
I broke my toe just over four weeks ago. Hospital signed me off sick for a month. It is still hurting quite a bit and swollen (though healing normally). I can only weqr ine specific pair of shoes for ut to feel ok.
I work in a busy a and e dept and I dont think im fit to go back and walk on it for hours.
Any thoughts? Or am I being a wimp. Im thinking should be a least 6weeks before feels ok. Though hospital said may take few months to feel normal.

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turkishly · 23/09/2015 13:02

Sorry posted similar twice.

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Roussette · 23/09/2015 13:05

I can never understand why people post asking for an opinion or some facts then strongly disagree with anyone who posts offering asked for opinions. It's weird. Why post in the first place?

OP did you ask the Doctor and lay it on thick to be signed off for a month or did he sign you off just like that? It sounds excessive. A friend of mine had a bunion operation on both her feet. (not cosmetic, it was necessary). She's in a stressful full on long hours job. Not so much on her feet as you but immense pressure all the same. The average time off for this op is 6 weeks. Because of the pride in her job, and not wanting to let people down she went back after 2 weeks.

And BTW I am one of the people who pays your wages.

Whatthefreakinwhatnow · 23/09/2015 13:06

I'm sorry, but you really, really cannot compare extended time off with work related stress and a poxy broken toe! I'm Shock that you could even think this!!

You sneering at your colleagues for taking time off for stress is apalling!

Roussette · 23/09/2015 13:08

You say in your post "I've injured my toe". That sums it up. You have just injured a toe. Life can carry on with a toe injury.

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turkishly · 23/09/2015 13:08

Thank badidea. And spot on.
Everyone else, stop getting so upset about someone you dont know.
And yes, I get the irony on paying my wages. Well please dont put the nhs crisis on me. As im bloody small fry to the amount of money going down the pan. But thats another story.

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MaudGonneMad · 23/09/2015 13:09

You want to take 6 weeks off work for a broken toe? Seriously?

If you hate your job that much (and if you deal with people in anything like the way you've behaved on here - calling posters a prat and sneering at cushy office jobs - then I suspect you don't have a good manner with people) then maybe it's time you think about changing career.

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turkishly · 23/09/2015 13:11

Im not sneering at stress! Who said that?
Im saying can we measure stress any more than you can measure whether im in pain ir not?
I have been to work following a loss. Some people go to work following a break. Who is the laziest?
You're talking shit!

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TheFairyCaravan · 23/09/2015 13:12

I'm not upset. I'm gobsmacked that someone can think it's ok to take a month off with a broken toe and now want more time off.

DS2 has just started out on his nursing degree, I hope he doesn't end up working with a freeloader like you, tbh.

DS1 and DH are in the forces, they regularly work longer than 12 hour days and are often up all night. Last week DS1 had 3 hours sleep in 3 days. He would never ask for 4 days off with a broken toe, let alone 6 weeks!

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turkishly · 23/09/2015 13:13

Yes maud , just like posters sneering and saying I cant string a sentence together. Wonder what their job is? Hopefully not working with the public eh?

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turkishly · 23/09/2015 13:15

Fairy caravan, bore off. Gobsmacked? Really. Is four weeks off with a break that takes six weeks to heal actually. That absurd? !

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TheFairyCaravan · 23/09/2015 13:22

It's a toe! Most people would go to work with a broken toe. You said you would go back if you weren't being paid full pay! So, yes I am gobsmacked!

Whatthefreakinwhatnow · 23/09/2015 13:22

Yes OP, it really is!!

AyeAmarok · 23/09/2015 13:27

You are being a wimp.

And you're also rude and defensive.

HTH.

Another broken toe and metatarsal bone surviver who went back to work the following day, traipsing round London. Yes, it hurt. No, it didn't kill me.

Roussette · 23/09/2015 13:28

An injured toe is tangible. It is annoying but it doesn't affect your mental state, you may have to hobble around a bit but it honestly is manageable. I haven't broken a toe but I have had an ankle injury when I was working in retail. I went to work and did what I could as I was working in an indie shop and didn't want to let down my work colleagues. I couldnt stand on my feet all day as normal, but I managed.

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turkishly · 23/09/2015 13:29

Im done.
None of you know me, my job or anything really to be able to comment. It was silly of me to ask a bunch of strangers a question like this.
And typical mumsnet as usual

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Roussette · 23/09/2015 13:32

I am at a loss to understand why people post asking for opinions then get the hump when no one agrees with them. Strange strange strange.

TheFairyCaravan · 23/09/2015 13:35

It's not "typical mumsnet" or typical anything.

You asked a question and you got responses that you don't like.

rollonthesummer · 23/09/2015 15:54

I am at a loss to understand why people post asking for opinions then get the hump when no one agrees with them. Strange strange strange.

Yep! Typical rude user of the internet to post a question and then have a strop when people tell them they're being pathetic!

Hissy · 23/09/2015 16:14

I'm staggered by the attitude on this thread! Where's a bit of sympathy? Op has done nothing wrong here, some breaks are walkable, others aren't ...

Agreed I've not taken time off for either broken toe, but I certainly could not walk too far with the first one. Current one is completely different, I carried on with my city tour straight after doing it.

If you can't say anything nice... dfod Smile

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 23/09/2015 16:22

Why should we say anything nice when we don't think the op is due it? She's coming across terribly.

Hissy why don't yfod Smile

Hissy · 23/09/2015 16:29

What a monumental lack of class...

Snoopadoop · 23/09/2015 16:36

Crikey. I broke three toes, including the big one. I had a cast and crutches and went back to work the next working day, so after the weekend. I also work for the NHS. No one offered to sign me off work and I didn't ask. It was fine though, I had nice colleagues who carried stuff for me. :)
I have a colleague who after an accident had to have three toes amputated (not including the big one). She had about 4 weeks off and came back and then had to go off again for a skin graft and had another 4 weeks.

Are you sure it's really that bad, have you been reassessed, is there a problem with healing?

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 23/09/2015 16:39

What a monumental lack of class... Confused. What a weird thing to say.

TheFairyCaravan · 23/09/2015 16:39

If you can't say anything nice... dfod

Why? OP asked for opinions and she got them. If she didn't want answers she shouldn't have asked the question!

shouldnthavesaid · 23/09/2015 19:19

I work in the NHS and it's a literal pain in the arse (sciatic nerve from too much hauling) when people are always off sick. I ended up going in on my night off as we had five staff off sick. I suggest you aren't enjoying your job that much if you're so desperate to have time off? I know that when I'm desperate to be off that work's really shit. I'm surprised your manager's allowing you to take the time off, mine isn't happy for any time off at all.

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