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1123 Days: How Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Failed a Good Man
My name is Zachary Rasmussen.On May 5, 2023, a cheap plastic sliding door handle on my work van snapped during a normal day on the job. That single second changed my life forever.
Today marks 1,123 days ��� over three full years — that I have been trapped in constant pain, fighting a system that was supposed to help me.I had a failed back surgery.
I endured five epidural shots.
I received a permanent spinal cord stimulator on April 10th, only for the battery to migrate out of its pocket, forcing me to need another revision surgery.I lost my 25-year career as a professional drain cleaner — the only real job I’ve known since I was 15 years old. I was good at it. I helped people. I gave free cleanings and discounts when someone couldn’t afford it. I gave my tips to the homeless and once saved my neighbors from carbon monoxide poisoning. That was who I was. Now I’m mostly stuck at home.
I developed severe agoraphobia and daily panic attacks so bad I can barely walk down the street or drive my wife to work. My depression is crushing. The rage I feel is sometimes uncontrollable. I wake up anxious, I go to bed anxious, and some days I don’t want to be here anymore. Minnesota Workers’ Compensation was supposed to take care of me. Instead, it has been three years of delays, denials, paperwork, Independent Medical Exams, and silence. They pay me $1,000 a week and call it “support,” but they have dragged their feet on every procedure, every surgery, and every request for help. They know how to Deny. Defend. Depose. — and they have done it masterfully on me.I am not the only one.
This state program is failing injured workers every single day. It is slow, bureaucratic, and seems more interested in protecting insurance companies than helping the people it was created to serve. While I sit here broken, in pain, and isolated, the system keeps turning without any real accountability.I am still here.
Still fighting.
Still hoping the next surgery gives me some relief.
But I am exhausted, angry, and heartbroken that a simple work injury has taken so much from me — my career, my body, my mental health, and my future.Minnesota, you are failing good people like me.And I’m not staying quiet about it anymore.— Zachary Rasmussen
@BrokenBackZach
1,123 days and counting, please help.
Hey Sean, morning from Minnesota. I hope your shoulder tear is getting better. I have a severed labrum 14 years ago, shit sucked. But now I got bigger problems. If you could read and share it would be much appreciated.
I been on work comp for 1125 days, over 3 years.
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1123 Days: How Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Failed a Good Man
My name is Zachary Rasmussen.On May 5, 2023, a cheap plastic sliding door handle on my work van snapped during a normal day on the job. That single second changed my life forever.
Today marks 1,123 days — over three full years — that I have been trapped in constant pain, fighting a system that was supposed to help me.I had a failed back surgery.
I endured five epidural shots.
I received a permanent spinal cord stimulator on April 10th, only for the battery to migrate out of its pocket, forcing me to need another revision surgery.I lost my 25-year career as a professional drain cleaner — the only real job I’ve known since I was 15 years old. I was good at it. I helped people. I gave free cleanings and discounts when someone couldn’t afford it. I gave my tips to the homeless and once saved my neighbors from carbon monoxide poisoning. That was who I was. Now I’m mostly stuck at home.
I developed severe agoraphobia and daily panic attacks so bad I can barely walk down the street or drive my wife to work. My depression is crushing. The rage I feel is sometimes uncontrollable. I wake up anxious, I go to bed anxious, and some days I don’t want to be here anymore. Minnesota Workers’ Compensation was supposed to take care of me. Instead, it has been three years of delays, denials, paperwork, Independent Medical Exams, and silence. They pay me $1,000 a week and call it “support,” but they have dragged their feet on every procedure, every surgery, and every request for help. They know how to Deny. Defend. Depose. — and they have done it masterfully on me.I am not the only one.
This state program is failing injured workers every single day. It is slow, bureaucratic, and seems more interested in protecting insurance companies than helping the people it was created to serve. While I sit here broken, in pain, and isolated, the system keeps turning without any real accountability.I am still here.
Still fighting.
Still hoping the next surgery gives me some relief.
But I am exhausted, angry, and heartbroken that a simple work injury has taken so much from me — my career, my body, my mental health, and my future.Minnesota, you are failing good people like me.And I’m not staying quiet about it anymore.— Zachary Rasmussen
@BrokenBackZach
1,123 days and counting, please help.
@Keir_Starmer I hope you get caught by these ceremonial knifes. Fucking ridiculous. Women cant have pepper spray and you allow these scum to carry knives? Maybe the United States should send the British men and women guns and ammo to protect themselves against your police officers.
@elonmusk There should be a law to prevent news outlets from lying to their audience. Massive fines. And start labeling those NEWS outlets as racists towards whites.
The News stations need to start being held accountable, or someone buy them to stop it. idk its disgusting.
How many more young British men and women are going to die? Bleeding in the street, alone and terrified. Cuffed, in a pool of their own blood. Begging for help.
How many more parents are going to stand there, and say that they couldn’t help their children in their dying moments? Apologising to their dead children because they couldn’t stop it from happening?
How many more?
This is going to happen again, and again, and again.
It’s happening right now, in every city across the country.
Rape. Sexual torture. Even worse. Mass industrial abuse of British children.
Henry Nowak is one of thousands and thousands and thousands.
Innocent young men and women put through the most unimaginable pain, because our country has failed to do what needs to be done.
Because children have been sacrificed to death in order to appease foreign cultures that have no place in our country.
I have had enough - of all of it.
I am going to look back in anger.
I urge you all to do the same.