How long off work with broken toe?

[turkishly]

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.

I work in orthopaedics can you tell me what kind of fracture it is?

I really can not see why you are taking 6 weeks off for a broken toe. Unless it is a possible dislocation or your big toe we don't even X-ray it as there is no point - treatment is just neighbour strapping and getting on with it. How did you injure your toe?

I think you may have some underlying issues (munchausen), you seriously can not be in that much pain. I bet your colleagues are like WTF. I'm also not sure why your GP signed you off for that long .

People like you give the public sector a bad name.

Thanks merde. Very useful.
Im.not disillusioned by my job at all. Perhaps im in the minority (on herw, absolutely) that work is work. Just that. I like my job
Its interested and varied. I work hard when im there. I have an exemplary record at work. And im.quite senior in my role I guess. However, I would much prefer not to have to work if I had the choice.
Its seems many on here feel they some major duty to their employers. I dont feel valued in the same way.
Its great if you are very career minded and perhaps some posters work within a different environment to me.
As I said work is work, I will back.soon enough and it will back to normal. As it is, I have had an injury that doesnt.make me feel fit enough to do my job. So.why on earth should I be dragging myself in?
Its a temporary Thing. Maybe I do have a different 'work ethic'to you lot. At the end of the day work is fine when im there but its not as important as my health or my family. I have no loyalty to my employers. Sorry.

bumwad
You have got to be kidding me? MUNCHHAUSENS?
Do you even know what it is? Di you work in mental health as well as orthopaedics?
Please someone who is actually sane tell me this is ludicrous.
If you read properly you will see that ive been employed for nearly thirty yrs and this is my only episode of long term sick in MY LIFE! !

I think asking someone how long someone should take off work is a bit silly really.
You say this yet you started this thread. Why??? I am totally perplexed.

And then...
Im.not disillusioned by my job at all.
You make a damn good job of hiding that fact! Your bosses don't care, you don't like the people you work with, your colleagues are bullies, you cry at work as it is so bad, it's a long journey to get there, it's stressful, you work with lazy people, you work with crafty people who swing time off work, it's bedlam.

Yet you like your job?

Oh ... and you don't feel valued at work at all. I am beginning to think someone has hacked into your MN and posted because this is all so contradictory.

I like the actual work, the nursing. Environment is stressful yes. Not valued.by management. Sure many nhs staff would say that. And I bet many have cried too. With sheer workload. How is that.contradictory.
Stop trying to trip me up.
I like my job (the work) as much as you can like work. I dont love going to work.no. I love doing stuff woth family. Work is a job.

For my own (sedentary desk job) I wouldn't be off work for more than a couple of days unless I had to be on painkillers so strong I couldn't think straight.

As the OP doesn't have a desk job I can see that you would need longer. I would be looking into hiring a wheelchair and saying to my employers you either have me back now with duties that allow me to be seated either in a wheelchair or other chair at all times, or I stay off until I can manage a normal day without pain. If the employer isn't going to cut any slack then it's not wrong for the OP to stay off until fully healed.

Joining everyone else in asking why you started this thread given that everyone who gave you an answer is a "martyr" or worse.

I work considerably longer than 12 hours most days but not on my feet so it's probably not relevant how long I would have off. But the point is that if I thought I could contribute anything at work (even if not normal duties) then I would. Yes I get sick pay but that's for when I can't work. I don't think there's much of a grey area- not for me anyway. You can go in or you can't (or are infectious blah blah).

Yep, I would say that to your face if you had asked the same question you did here.

Your attitude to work is typical of a small but vocal minority of people I worked with in the public sector. Four weeks off sick with a broken toe? That's taking the absolute piss. I'm sure you'd struggle in if you weren't on full pay.

I broke my toe this time last year. I was in Ibiza at the time and I was in agony - I could barely walk for two days and my whole foot was red, swollen and disgusting. But I was determined it wouldn't ruin my holiday, so I just strapped it up and limped around for the next week - including going on some very long and rocky walks by the sea.

Yes, it will be painful, but I think you just have to get on with it. Once you take some painkillers and walk around on it for a bit, the pain will start to subside.

Six weeks off work is just ridiculously excessive. If that six weeks had been unpaid or if, like me, you'd been on a foreign holiday at the time, would you have just sat around for that long, or would you have forced yourself to get up and get on with it?

How many more times!
The doctor gave me a note for a month! I did not ask. He obviously thought that it was warranted! Yes I could have got myself as fit before that but I did not feel fit. Im not milking anything.
It was a huge mistake to.ask some strangers what they thought. Huge mistake.
What I should have done it asked fellow colleagues who know what the work situation is like and how a foot injury isnt practical.
All this talk about gritting teeth.and getting on with it. Why should I have to?
Im gritting teeth.and.doing things I have to-ie shops etc.take children school.

Sorry. None of you jobsworths have convinced me.

And im still waiting for someone to support me or slate the munchausen comment.

All the stick ive had and ni one mentions shit like that being said!

Sorry. None of you jobsworths have convinced me

Not a surprise, conscientious people can't teach a shirker how not to shirk.

Anyway why do you need convincing? Either your toe hurts too much for you to contemplate going back to work. Or it doesn't.

This is what shocked me when I worked in the NHS. depending on length of service you can have up to six months off with full pay and you'd be surprised just how many are off sick with such and such which normally clears up just befor the six months are up. No wonder the service is on its knees with the work ethic which is ingrained and backed up by the unions.

My friend did attack and combat next to me this morning and broke her toe 3 weeks ago.

Im a shirker. How many posters have 30 odd yrs service behind em? Im s physical job?

And I dont need convincing. Ive gp appt in an hour. I will see what a professional says.

And I would dearly love to hear some of your professions. Your sick record. And anyone. Who has had more than a week off work before. (Must be someone).

I'd be really suprised if you need more than 4 weeks off for a broken toe. Which one is it. Can you not just strap it and take painkillers?

I'm a nurse and know how busy shifts are but if they're 12 hours then presumably you're only doing 3 or 4 a week so plenty of time to rest in between. Or as others have said talk to occ health and get a phased return or do paperwork. There must be a project or audit that you can do for a couple of weeks.

When a friend at work had shoulder surgery and had to wear a sling for six weeks they let her come back after two weeks and do an audit and some teaching/preceptorship.