health descrimination

No you are treated like any other person who is on Medicare , seeing a specialist it takes an 8 month wait , then he orders a MRI scan which takes another 2 weeks , then he operates which can take 6 to 18 months . Blame the government or Medicare and not the over worked hospitals . After all the government funds it .

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i thought i had problems

ill keep my mouth shut from now on

Keep your voice Matt. Comparisons fall by the way side post-stroke.

Focus on your needs, as a priority.

Losing one’s bodily functional attributes is hard, very hard. Couple that with work loss, or limited opportunities at work, is a further blow. Combined they knock one’s identity.

Do you have to continue working as an engineer? Are you dependent on that income? Or can you consider doing something else? What would you like to do, or believe you could do, given your post stroke state of being, with bouts of fatigue?

Post -stroke fatigue is an unwelcome guest. An indicator rest is necessary. Rest to allow the brain and body to recover further. Lighter hours may be what you’d benefit from in the immediate future.

Stroke surviving isn’t pleasant, each day needs to be taken afresh.That you got yourself back to work is a huge achievement.

Dear fellow stroke survivors, return to work... yes, I tried and was pushed out... took it hard initially, but now I'm happy. I worked for an organisation that claims to be helping the Australian community...

My lawyer asked me one simple Q back then: 'Michael, would you be happy for me to get you back to work'? I thought for a moment about the environment, people, lack of support - and answered NO! Financially it is a challenge and everyone is different, so I'm not saying that you should follow my lead. I turned to my GP/Specialist and they helped me make a claim through my Super. Yes, one has to turn to own savings. Also, not sure if NDIS is an option (exploring it now). Take care!

Following comment is not against any stroke survivor, rather a snapshot of an employer's mind (maybe):

- if I take a stroke survivor back, how is the rest of the team going to behave (performance, results);

- if I take him/her back, will I need to spend more time managing them?

- are the customers going to accept him/her (in a customer facing role), or will they gradually walk away (loss of revenue)?

My manager asked me and find new customers/sales/leads - during Melbourne's COVID lock-down while working from home!!!

Bottom line, from my experience, return to work can be daunting - for me (short-term memory loss) it meant that I was constantly dauting myself if I was doing things right. By way of background, after my stroke I returned to a new organisation, so everything was new and confusing for me, especially the systems (what/where/how) and they didn't provide any meaningful training.