Aug 29th I had a non-displaced distial radial fracture. A week later it was casted by my primary doc. It kept swelling at the bottom of the cast, pushing my cast up and causing severe pain. 5 weeks later the cast came off (1.5 weeks ago), break healed nicely. Been to physical therapy 4 times, and done my home exercises now as well and wear a simple splint when not doing pt.
But I am still in horrible amounts of pain, can barely move my wrist in any direction. When I do anything with it (sometimes nothing with it as im still off work) it swell horrible, up to double in size from my elbow to my fingertips.
My PT doesn’t seem concerned, but after 10 days out of my cast, 7 weeks after the break, this is starting to worry me. Should I be pushing to see an orthopedist? Should I be pushing for an MRI, or is this all normal?
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I have worked at my current employer for 4 years. Very good attendence, very good performance, top notch employer. Two months ago I was the victim of an auto accident. In that time I have missed about 100 hours from work. Missed work was due to doctors appt., physical therapy appts., psychologist appts., all of which I had a doctors note each time. The other times I was out was from not being able to get outta the bed from my lower back pain. All this they are aware of and they haven’t said anything to me other than I hope you get to feeling better. Then they had a meeting with me today & wanted to know what’s going on & what can be done to help my production. They commented that I have always been a great employee but now it’s going down hill and they claim they understand because of the tragic accident I was in but the way they sounded is I better shape up or they’ll ship me out. They said I need to get with HR & show them all my medical notes. I am scared. Can they fire me?