I am currently off sick with what started off as a knee injury, but has 'dominoed' into a lower back, Achilles tendon and plantar fasciitis problem.
OH and HR are at odds with each other about going back to my original job - both my boss and I have said this isn't possible, due to the nature and the timing of the job.
I'm not incapable of all work, but until HR and OH have realised that 'light duties' in a place where we routinely knock about with radiation shielding aren't possible, we can't start the redeployment process.
I'd love to see how reducing my individual load would work.
Maybe forgo the shielding and be taken off active duty when my individual radiation dose went up?
Aaaaanyway, I am finally 'under' a hands on, honest to goodness, seeing me in person, physiotherapist, who has given me effective exercises and my left heel pain is improving.
I've joined a gym and everything. I was so grateful to be finally back on track to walking normally.
However.
5 years ago, I went to see a private podiatry surgeon who treated me for right foot morton's neuromas, complicated by fat pad atrophy.
I couldn't just have a steroid injection into my right foot, as there was no tissue, it had to be ultrasound guided.
It has started to play up again and now, I'm in no position to go private.
I am in such a huge amount of pain, I can't walk very far.
Just as I was starting to see an improvement in one foot, the other foot has become so painful, I was crying with the effort of walking yesterday.
I have the clumpy, Cosyfeet shoes.
I have the custom made orthotics.
What else can I do while I'm on yet another fucking waiting list for yet another problem with my feet?
I am so fed up and depressed.