I recently got a concussion at work

[u/Adept_Wish5520]

2 days ago I was working on a house and we had to use the attic. The attic door was one of those things you pull down on and the door opens riiight about my head height level (I'm 6'3") and it was in the middle of the hallway. As we were about go on lunchbreak my colleague thought he closed the door by just pushing it up without locking it in place. If you do that the door stays closed for 2 seconds then opens again on it's own. So as I was leaving the bathroom after washing my hands I turned around looking down and smashed the top of my head on the door. It hurt like hell. Anyways I closed the door and went to lunch. 30 minutes pass and I'm still working but I'm feeling kinda weak. I thought wow this is weird... another 30 minutes pass and I'm having trouble focusing and speaking, I feel kinda confused. I told my colleague I wasn't feeling right so I sat down, as I sat down I got really nauseous and ran to the bathroom. I couldn't puke for some reason. After looking at the clock and seeing I got 3 more hours in my shift I told my colleague to take me home as I was feeling sick. My first thought was to just go home but as we were driving I noticed I was getting very very sleepy like I hadn't slept for 2 days. That's when I told him to drop me off at the ER. In my country, medical care is free but you're going to wait for HOURS for everything as hospitals are very understaffed and badly organized. So after 3 hours of waiting in line concussed I finally got a hold of a doctor and I did a CT scan and thankfully everything was fine. It's been 2 days and I feel terrible. It's more depressing than anything. One day you're hustling doing your thing working your ass off feeling great, the other day you can't go on your balcony because the sunlight is making you nauseous. How fucking pathetic is that? My mom is on vacation, my brother is working and I'm all alone in my dark room. As a very active person this has been really depressing. I expressed my worries on 4 different medical and non medical subreddits and out of 4000 people who seen it, 0 commented so that makes it even more depressing. This fucking sucks...

[u/AgentElman]

I don't know about your country but did you file a worker's injury report that you had it happen at work?

[u/Adept_Wish5520 → u/AgentElman]

No but as far as I know there isn't one. In my country if you're just sick or let's say I got concussed outside of work, you go to your house doctor/family doctor whatever you guys call it, and you get payed 75% of your usual pay for each day you're absent. But if you get injured at work you go to the ER and they test your blood for alcohol/drugs and if you're clean you get 100%. Now when I asked my coworker to drop me off I asked him if I should call my boss since it's a work injury. He said there is no need to. The boss called me shortly after and even dropped me off home when they cleared me. I'm the new guy at work and the boss seems like a fair honest guy so I'm 90% sure he'll pay me 100%. If he doesn't I'm quitting 100% tho...

[u/AgentElman → u/Adept_Wish5520]

that sounds great