Have you gotten hurt on the job and can't work?

Sorry to hear about your back injury. Did you get workers compensation for that. I can understand you feeling about not being able to help your hubby as perhaps initially planned. If he understands your injury, don't be too hard on yourself, because what can you do. Re-injuring the area can be too dangerous. I hope all works out for you.

Luckily i was never hurt in line of my job, i do a lot of traveling and there are risks involve in it while traveling but fortunately i have not yet encountered being hurt and i hope i will never get hurt or else i do not know how to provide for my family..my kids are too small. But if you ask me emotionally? there are times that i get hurt emotionally but i can still carry on lol. I hope you are doing fine and gets sickness compensation or something that will help you with your condition and that you will hopefully recover soon. What are the symptoms by the way of those you have mentioned??? do you get that by being in the office too long like sitting too long? or do i also need to fall in order for me to find out about it?

Well, due to being Diabetic I have some problems with wounds not wanting to heal like they should which have turned into Chronic wounds. Most of it stems back to when I scraped my leg on a container and put a little gash in it at the job I was working for at the time, and never reported it. But when you are hurt and cannot work it can be depressing. I know for myself the time I was off work I had to look for ways to earn some extra $$ besides what I was getting and things to do to keep me from being bored. I hope you start feeling better soon.

I've had a bad back since I damaged it badly while moving apartments in France, back in the '90s. It's played up again two or three times here in the UK and I've had to stop work every time... and spend weeks in agony, learn to walk again, start (again) building up strength and so on. Mine has FINALLY started on the road to a proper recovery thanks to a smart physiotherapist who realised that my legs were relatively weak. Everyone else had focussed on the belt of core muscles (which helped a bit) but hadn't seen the wider view. Since he helped me figure out exercises to do, I haven't had a single day of inactivity. As you noticed, one of the hardest things is not the pain or physical trouble: it's the feeling of being useless. You were earning and contributing and now you're not. That's why I started looking for online possibilities back in November 2008 - the latest bout of back pain was going on and on. Didn't look like it was ever going to stop. So I thought I'd look for alternatives I could do from home, on my own schedule, that would let me stop and lie down or get up and walk away whenever I needed to. My lady understood the feeling, even though she didn't want me to worry about it. She wouldn't have minded if I kept going through the cycle of work-pain-work-pain with periods where there was no income (well, she minded me suffering, of course, but you know what I mean!). Working online, I felt like I was contributing again - Even if it was just pennies. Heck, I felt so much better when I sold a single article (after 2 weeks of starting, woohoo!). I wasn't contributing much but at least I was active. I was doing something, not just being a drain (which of course I wasn't, but I saw it like that). The rest, as they say, is history: three years later I could be earning a full-time income from freelancing. I'm not, due to other commitments, but I could be. The back problem isn't your fault. Remember that. No one can blame you for it - so you shouldn't, either!