Seig heil VoerkCova Nazi!

I’ve had a pretty miserable day today.  The Workcover people are arranging for me to go to the Pain Management Clinic at the Wesley,  but they want me to go like next week.  Now I am desperately keen to go do this program and it was me being proactive that got me onto it to start with but it’s damn near impossible for me to get my ducks in a row that quickly.

I am currently unable to drive in the morning due to side effects of the nightly medications – and the pain clinic starts at 07:30.  Additionally, there’s no spaces available at after school are for the Small Child and with the Clinic finishing at 15.30 each day I wouldn’t get there until well after 16.00.  The Workcover Nazi (mka a Case Manager) is treating me like I’m trying to skive out of participating even though it was my idea to go to this clinic in the first place! 

So I found myself beating a path to the GP to try and rework my medications so I could drive in the mornings.  But that was ultimately a bit pointless because i’ve already been trying to mess with the doses to see if I i could diminish the nasty side effects.  Unfortunately the only thing that seems to allow for safe driving in the morning and preferably having some semblance of being compos mentis is to go without the medications all together.  Going without the drugs though means that basically I won’t get any sleep at all and then wake up with  ridiculously severe pain from not taking themuscle relaxants etc.

The Workcover Nazi said I could get taxi vouchers, but that isn’t going to change the fact that I can’t get any one to pick up the Small Child after school and  not even the WorkCover people can pull child care places out of their butts.   I just wish they weren’t so damn heavy handed.  I don’t understand why they’re so adamant that I start immediately, when I could do it in a couple of weeks time when I’ve arranged for a bit more support.  They’re being so pushy and I have no idea why.