I was a PICC nurse for a little over a year. I worked with 3 teriffic women, one of whom was my supervisor. One was a very, very close friend. So I thought. We went to school together, we had get-togethers at her house, we worked for 9 hours a day together and as women, we TALKED.
I made the mistake of mentioning that I occasionally took vicodin for back pain. Never took it at work and my rx's were for 24 tablets that lasted me over a month. In fact, when I first started working there I was in physical therapy for a weird shoulder blade/trapezious pain. They knew this when I started. I NEVER called in sick, ever. On a friday while at work I became suddenly very ill, abdominal cramping like you wouldn't believe and diarrhea. I thought it was my appendix or a stone, so they nicely let me go get checked out. It seemed to resolve then returned over the weekend increasing again on monday and now I also had hematuria. So I asked to leave work -they were all concerned and understanding-I went to an er where they did a ct-negative, just a bad UTI. I called in sick the next day due to my pain and still having diarrhea. My boss texts me that I'm a vicodin addict, etc. Totally out of the blue and unprofessional. She made me come in to "talk" even though I was still ill and I BEGGED her for a private meeting. But when I came into work, my boss and 2 co-workers decided I needed an "intervention" and went into how I had changed, etc. Now I had also told these so called friends of mine that I thought something was wrong and that I might have depression that both my physician and counselor told me I did. These RN's went into how my stomach pain was similiar to withdrawl symptoms and I retorted with "they are also signs of depression". Anyways, it was awful. These friends completely turned on me. I even offered to take a drug screen then and there, my supervisor "poo-poo'd" it, saying there was no need. I ended up quitting due to that and other allegations that were totally false. I was worried about my license being at risk. It's a small company, there's not really an HR and my supervisor and one of the co-workers laughed and joked often about how they smoke weed-daily. Should I have stayed? Should I sue? LOL. I still have nightmares about the whole situation. what's your opinion?
