| illfarmr - 2/23/2021 18:16
My best friend used to own a fair size (75-100 employees) machine shop, building a lot of stuff for caterpillar. One day, an older employee with a great work history started to really screw up and dropping things. My buddy’s wife did the HR and drug testing program. Kicking and screaming, she took him to the local clinic for a pee test. Turned out he was having a heart attack, and taking him in for a drug test likely saved his life.
2 years after mine, my son in laws father, had similar symptoms at work, he told his boss he was sick and was going to go home and take a nap. His boss, a good friend of mine, remembered my story, and made him gat in the truck, and took him to the hospital. Doc later old him - "if you had went home and taken a nap, you would have never woken up."
That's why I share my story, I think I'm pretty tough and can take a lot of pain/sickness and still work a full day, BUT, you (we) also need to know the symptoms of some major things that WILL kill us. DON'T be too proud, or stubborn, to know when to seek help. |
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