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Author Topic: Janitors broke my shoulder! Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 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.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-02-2007 01:24 AM                     Sorry on that happening to you,for that aint a total lot of fun to go through. Speed with you in getting well... (Guess the janitors are out of a job and a insurance claim is in store...) -thx Monte  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-02-2007 01:25 AM                     You - 0 douchebags - 1 Hope you have a quick recovery.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-02-2007 01:46 AM                        A colleague broke her scapula a few years back when the crowded train she was standing in went over a rough set of points, and a very heavy suitcase fell out of the overhead luggage rack and onto her shoulder. Of course it had to be her right shoulder, which made writing very slow and difficult while it healed up. If I remember correctly, it had recovered to the point at which she could do most things within 2-3 weeks, but did take a bit longer to completely heal. Sorry to hear about that - needless to say, these things always happen at the worst possible time. Let's hope the moron with the mop gets taken to a cellar and introduced to The Gimp...  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-02-2007 02:49 AM                        Brad: Get well soon.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 05-02-2007 02:51 AM                        So, do you qualify to workers comp. then??  |  IP: Logged Christos Mitsakis Expert Film Handler Posts: 242 From: Ag.Paraskevi, ATHENS, GREECE Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-02-2007 03:20 AM                     AUUCH.. have patience... C.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-02-2007 03:23 AM                     quote: Allison Parsons So, do you qualify to workers comp. then?? I think he would but in this case the janitorial service would need to pay, imo.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-02-2007 04:54 AM                  Brad, I sincerely wish you a speedy and relatively painless recovery. Breaking a shoulder blade is serious stuff... Speaking from personal experience, the secret is HEAVY drugs! They may slur your speech, but who the hell cares...the mind still works fine! HA! Get well soon, bub!  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-02-2007 06:34 AM                     Hope you are feeling better Brad.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-02-2007 08:39 AM                     Ahhh, I already read this once!!! =) That sucks brad, and the shoulder is such a bad thing to hurt, it really knocks you out so you can't do anything. =( FEEL BETTER!!!  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-02-2007 08:55 AM                     Sorry to hear what happened. Get Well Soon!  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-02-2007 09:02 AM                     Brad, Sorry to hear of your fall. Hope that you are a "quick mender"! In any accident of this type you should overcome the masculine trait of thinking you will be ok. Report the accident to the management immediately and see that it is written up. If you have any idea that you may be injured, have someone else call 911 and get yourself checked out.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-02-2007 09:46 AM                     No "Caution Wet Floor" sign erected = big lawsuit!  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 05-02-2007 03:41 PM                        I hope you get better, Brad.  |  IP: Logged

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