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I have been thinking over what has caused my back injury and come to the conclusion of what did it. I was thinking over when I first started having an achy back regularly - not the current agonizing pain but the beginning warning pains, and have realized it happened when work redecorated the front of the store. When they lowered all our registers so instead of being able to stand upright when I typed and processed sales and returns I know need to have my back slightly bent all the time. When they moved the returns section so that we had to use lower drawers that or blocked by drawers to put the departments returns in, again requiring a great deal more bending over, especially since they are located behind the checkout registers so you cannot usually open the doors completely and pull out the drawers fully to place things in as that would inconvenience the cashier. Since they made new further inset and lower sections for the hangers to hang so if you want to get one out you need to bend and reach and if you want a pants hanger you have to do so with even more difficulty or almost kneel. While this is less inconvenient for most of the others working at the front at my height it has meant most of the time at work I’ve been partially bent over stressing my back. Which means even when I finish having this current agonizing pain treated, which is requiring me to miss work and pay a great deal for medicine, doctors visits, and the trip to the ER, I will be going back to what hurt me in the first place. This seems …problematic. And before anyone brings up workers comp. you only get that if you were directly injured on the job, as in an accidents or such, not just being slowly injured due to painful working conditions. I’m trying to figure out ways of ameliorating the damage when I go back, not that I;m at that point yet given I can still only walk a few feet at a time by myself, can only sit for a short while in a very straight chair and am spending most of the days lying flat on my back knocked out by the valium, percocet and 600mg ibuprofen.