I got sick with COVID-19 at work and it got worse. It's painful.
Hello.
My feelings haven't subsided, and I'm at a loss.
I would like you to teach me ways of thinking that will make you feel comfortable.
I was working at a hospital.
In spring, the coronavirus cluster occurred due to a mistake on the hospital side, and I was also affected.
Unfortunately, after that, I had strong sequelae, and I have been on leave of absence since spring.
Not only are physical symptoms, but symptoms that make my head feel dazed remain, and I spend almost all my time sleeping except going to the hospital.
When it was reported that the first patient who was infected had COVID-19, I already felt unwell, and I told my workplace, “There is a possibility that I was infected too. I want it tested.” I offered, but I was told to “do it yourself,” so when I did a self-test, it was negative.
However, I was unwell, so I went to an internal medicine doctor, told the circumstances, and received medicine.
I had a fever of up to 40 degrees that night. I tested myself again and it was positive.
When I reported it to my workplace, I was told that attendance would be suspended for a while due to pay.
The fever went down in about 1 week, but various other symptoms appeared, and the hospital was thrown around. There were many doctors who didn't get along, but after 2 weeks had passed since the onset of the disease, I was able to go to the sequelae outpatient clinic, and I was finally able to get a proper examination there, and now I am being treated there.
I will summarize the points that I feel are struggling with right now.
・I'm genuinely unwell. I was bedridden because I couldn't do any mental work. I'm worried about getting better.
・I wasn't allowed to apply for an industrial accident. The main thing is that the workplace was uncooperative, and the first doctor I went to didn't write a medical certificate saying “it's troublesome.” (Even though it's a workers' accident designated hospital...) I went to various consultations, such as labor consultations with the labor base and the prefecture, but “I don't know where it is,” “resolve it through discussions between both parties,” and “proof that you're not lying?” I was told things like that, and in the end, there was nothing to be done.
・I wasn't able to apply for an industrial accident, so when I applied for Injury and Sickness Allowance, they said, “If you don't go play and pretend you're sick, you won't get any money. I was told, “Please also have the doctor's medical certificate rewritten.”
・There was no apology from work, and there was no consideration, and they decided to be fired “because I've been taking a long time off for private reasons.”
・I have financial concerns, but there is no assistance from my husband. Living expenses are completely cut in half even while I'm resting. I'm impatient, but my physical condition is bad, I can't work, and my feelings are getting more and more depressed.
I gave up on my illness, my workers' compensation claim, my job, and my husband.
I gave up rationally, but I can't stop feeling hurt.
Even though I know there's nothing I can do about it.
It's painful.