Hi, this is my first time seeking for help on a forum. Any advices is appreciated or it's good writing out to reduce my stress.
I had an accident doing farm work almost 6 months ago, that cut off half of my finger’s nail and a bit finger bone. I will skip a very stressful story with a lot of tears with the treatment process here.
I had been paid by Workcover until a week ago my doctor advised me to return to work. The thing is somehow I have been recovering so slowly, it's still an open wound which I think takes 2 more months to be fully healed. I raised my concern to my doctor that I don't think I can work while the wound is still open and could bleed anytime, but he insisted that I can return to work.
I am still living in the farm that I worked for before the accident. With lots of bad things happened recently, I am so vulnerable that I cannot leave my friends here to move anywhere else alone. But obviously, I cannot work there with this open wound, it’s a potato farm, everything I touch there's dirt. My supervisor doesn't think I can work with this situation, my employer thinks it's fine. But eventually it's my finger, not anyone else, I think I'd better to find other job. I got infected and took 4 rounds of antibiotics for 40 days with it, so I don't want to take any risk.
Workcover stopped paying me, so I am looking for jobs in hospitality which I think could be better for my condition than farm work. I have several offers but they all ask to wait until my wound is fully recovered. In the meantime, I watch Youtube videos about the jobs that I think I am capable to do, but I don't think I can do it. The wound is still sore if I carelessly touch something.
I really don't know what to do next. I am here with working holiday visa and cannot go home yet.
