Hi everyone, as many of you know monday was a holiday and i was off. I went back to work tuesday and was having a pretty good day considering it was the day after a holiday. The day after a holiday is always a heavy day we always have three days of mail to get out in that day. It was a typical day and i was having my normal daily pain as i always do,but things were going well. I was making pretty good time and was almost finished with my route.I was in my last subdivision when i got out of my truck to deliver a pkg. Well this customer had reguested all her pkgs. be placed up on her front porch,so i was putting the pkg on the porch. Her porch has 6 steps up to a landing the two more up on to the porch. It also had been raining off and on for several days. So as i trunned around i came down the first two steps to the landing.I was thinking to myself becareful i see water beaded up all over the steps and looks like it could be slippery.Well no sooner than i had thought that i took the next step and it was as if i had stepped on a sheet of ice.My feet came out from under me and down i went hitting all 5 or 6 steps on the way down. It happened in a split second and i found myself laying at the bottom of the stairs. I began to cry as i was in pain instantly and i layed there looking around to see if anyone was around to help me. I was all alone hurting wet and in shock so i layed there for 5 mins or more and decided i would have to get up and call for help. So i slowly began to move to see if i could even get up off the ground i made it to my knees then worked my way up to my feet. I got back in my truck and called the office my supervisor came out and she took pictures of the porch i had fallen from. She asked me did i want to see their drs. or what did i want to do. Well just in a matter of 15 to 20 mins the pain level had rose off the charts and i could tell my hip and lower back was swelling, so i told her to take me to the er. I went to the er and they xrayed me but the swelling was so bad i couldn't lay flat and not sure they got a good xray of the area. My swelling had gotten the size of a babys head and my left cheek and lower back is solid purple . So now i'm waiting on the red tape to clear so i can make workers comp cover me seeing my own dr. I want to make sure nothings broke or that i didn't cause more injury to my buldging disc. Oh and the er dr. only wrote me out of work for three days and sent me home on crutches. This is day two and i can tell you i really doubt that i can go back to work on monday. So now i'm wading thru a sea of paperwork and policys trying to get approval of further medical care. Wish me luck and i pray you all are having a lpd
Kay