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Topic: Janitors broke my shoulder!
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 05-02-2007 01:18 AM
So yesterday I had to do a quick service call to a theater. The stupid janitors were mopping the lobby floor without posting ANY SIGNAGE WHATSOEVER and I was carrying one of those big "platter reels" in one hand and a box of supplies in the other across the lobby. I slipped, with feet flying in front of my face and above me, and landed on my right shoulder/neck.
After suffering all last night with the pain, I decided today that even though I was probably overreacting that I should go to the emergency room and have it checked out just to be safe. (If nothing else I was hoping they could at least prescribe me with some decent pain killers.) Needless to say, after running some X-rays the doctors were shocked that I was able to break my scapula from a fall like that instead of, say, a fall from 20 feet. (It is apparently one of the hardest bones to break, but it was a hell of a fall.)
The only good news of this is that I *probably* won't have to have surgery to correct it. I will see the specialist in the next couple of days to find out for sure. In the meantime my arm is in a sling and it hurts like bloody hell if I move it past certain points. I am told it will probably be 6 weeks before things are normal.
I have been busting my ass (along with the rest of the install crew) this last month'ish to make an IMPOSSIBLE deadline on the new Studio Movie Grill location in Lewisville. As such today marked the first day off I would have had in awhile after such a ridiculous amount of stress and some 20 hour work days to make it. (We had to pre-wire the building to a sort of "plug-and-play" status because the equipment arrived a mere one week prior to it's pre-public opening nights...and it opened complete and on time I might add.) I was looking forward to getting away from the theater work a bit and actually turn on the new camera I bought and do some photography. Right now I can't even lift the camera body on it's own, much less with a lens mounted on it...plus there is this PAIN that just won't go away even with the prescription drugs.
The best part of all...when I fell the two janitors who witnessed (and were the cause of) the accident walked over, picked up my items and said "I'll just leave this stuff here for you". Fucking assholes.
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