So here's a bit of a rant but Tl;Dr : Wife had a hernia, doctors didn't fix it, went to work with it at a grocery store, told her bosses she couldn't be picking up heavy shit because it will make her hernia worse, bosses didn't care, now wife is in the emergency room and I think this won't be covered by workman's comp and her insurance doesn't cover a lot for emergencies.
My wife works at a grocery store chain that has a lot of problems. She's an assistant manager at a deli that most of the workers have seen the writing on the wall and left. So now they're understaffed and underpaid because America. Now my wife got a hernia a few years ago that the doctors would not fix because they were afraid that if she continued to work it would open up again anyway and all we could do was just live with it.
Now with this I've told her multiple times to take it easy, don't work so hard, and to look for a better paying job she can work without irritating her hernia. But she's stubborn and kept feeling guilty because “her other workers would have to do it without her”. Even though she's been called in multiple times on her days off to work extra hours because the manager didn't want to.
Today was the day that basically broke her because last night her hernia pain was nearly unbearable and we had to get her to the hospital. She texted her boss who just kept asking “when can you be back?” But she couldn't, because she had to have an emergency surgery today. And finally, after all this pain and suffering, I convinced her to quit.
Now because she can't prove the hernia happened at work, most likely she doesn't have a workman's comp case. And this company is well known for fighting these cases that it may not even be worth it. On top of this, her insurance has paid exactly jack and shit for pretty much all of our previous procedures, save for a check up or two, so this is going to cost us so much to pay for. But at the very least I can finally convince her to find a job that doesn't require injuring yourself and being grateful for it. Well that's everything, here's hoping that job actually does pay for workman's comp for this.