Bolton Postie sorry to hear about your illness.BoltonPostie wrote:I collapsed at my delivery frame on Aug13th was out for 15mins and came round in the ambulance just before going into our local Hospital.
Was given morphine and anti sickness pills and then whisked off to have a CT scan on my head,was told by the doctor who had looked in my eyes that I had swelling of the optic nerve and was told that there was a 50/50 chance of having a brain tumour,luckily there was no tumour,my line manager had rung the hospital and spoken to my wife who told him that I was awake and talking,nice to know they care.
Was in hospital for 9days having MRI,Lumbur Punctures,bloods etc,then they booted me out saying you have intercranial pressure but as your only on painkillers now you can go home which to be honest was a relief,in the mean time my nice kind manager had been on the blower saying that I needed to send in a sick note(bit hard when your in hospital and 5 miles away from your gp)so when I was leaving had to mither the drs in the hospital for a sick note.
Next morning I get a taxi to my office as I can`t drive now as I`ve lost some of my eyesight and get dizzy spells,goes into see the DOM and fills him in on my illness,he is shocked when I tell him i`ve only been out since the night before as my line manger told him I was out TWO days after my collapse(twat).
Tells him I`m still shaky and still have the nutache and keep forgetting things and have slurred speech,he then says ATOS will give me a ring in a few days time as he KNOWS I will be off for sometime.
Got the phone call off them today,slapper asks how I`m doing as my DOM wants to know when I can come back to work and is keen that if I can`t manage a delivery to come and work inside,maybe doing the callers office or sign offs!!
Nice to see even after I`d visited him and couldn`t even remember my own fricking phone number he thinks I can deal with members of the public.
I`m not a violent man and quite frankly could do without the hassle but I feel like going in tomorrow and sparking the twat out.
Had a similar case at our office where a guy was on long term sick and as usual the screws hassled him by trying to get him to come in for interviews and to phone once a week etc.
The point is you only have to provide a certificate from your doctor and when the cert runs out you get your doctor to renew it.
Occasionally they may ask you to attend a medical by a company doctor.
If they phone you up on a regular basis treat this as harassment and contact your area union rep who can then deal with the local DOM.
That is what i did in the case of the guy in our office,basically the DOM and the scab rep told him he had to provide a courtesy call once a week,and as the rep was on leave he phoned me instead.
I got onto the area rep who said this was nonsense and sorted the screws out who then left him alone.
Get well soon and don't rush back for any screw.
