RSD
I was an Asst. Mgr. for CVS pharmacy in Hendersonville until I was injured on the job while taking down a Pepsi promotional sign on May 24, 2004. My life since then is the most painful spiral journey I have ever been on. The Pepsi campaign sale ran for a week for $1.99 a twelve pack, the sale ended on a Saturday but Pepsi didn’t take their sale signs down and they were servicing our store that morning taking the unused products for credits. My manager kept on wondering why customers were still coming in the store wanting the Pepsi 12 packs for $1.99 when a new store ad was now in place. She noticed that there were signs left up in the parking lot and so she went and got them down. Upon finishing the bank deposit and taking it the bank, I had noticed that one more promotional sign was left up near the entrance to the shopping center on a grassy area. When I returned, I mentioned it to my manager and told her that Pepsi should have taken down their own sales promotion signs and I didn’t think it was CVS’s job to take the sign down. She told me, “Well when you’ve finished logging the deposits, take the sign down.” I got a pair of scissors and walked across the parking lot and was about the take the sign down when my ankle got caught in a mole hole and I could not then stand up straight. I tried getting up and even though it was very painful. I continued to take the sign down and walk back the distance of the parking lot to the store. Upon entering the store, I told the clerk “Would you mind taking this sign to the back of the store to go out when we take the rest of the trash out.” Well, as time went on, the ankle became swollen and I was in a terrible amount of pain and beginning to feel sick to my stomach. At that time a pharmacy clerk came up to the office for change and she told me when her mother broke her ankle she also felt nauseated and had terrific pain. I then went and talked to my manager and she told me I needed to go get it x-rayed. I called my husband and he then took me down to the ER and after 4 hours, they told me I had broken it, but I they couldn’t set it then. I had to come back tomorrow!!! The pain was awful all night long. Two months now have passed and the pain is getting to the point were it was the same day I broke it. Now after seeing doctors, head doctors, feet doctor, med. doctor and a pain doctor and specialists it was determined I have Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. The CVS insurance company stopped paying for medications and treatments back in 2005, so everything is out of pocket expenses. Even doctor bills. Workers comp. stopped paying also because the insurance company did, so I am totally on my own for any medications and treatments or help. This also has put a strain on all household expenses and my marriage. There is no money left over for vacations or overnight trips, or any frills. Pain medications and high blood pressure medications are now my source of enjoyment.
Nancy D., North Carolina
December 28th, 2007 at 1:12 am
what meds you on.