An Update
(from this post)
Due to unforeseen complications, my surgery has been rescheduled for September 1st, 2005.
The unforeseen complications have to do with work, and work policy, and blah, blah, blah.
To give a background, there is a program at my work that allows people to donate or share their annual and/or sick leave. This shared time goes to someone who is needing to be out of work for a serious problem and won't have enough leave time to cover the time needed off. I talked to someone in the Personnel department here at work today, and he said that the hysterectomy (and the reasons I need one) would be sufficient to approve me for shared leave. The only problem:
I've not been in my current job for 6 months or more.
That little snipit of information had never before been mentioned, and now it seems that I have yet another goddam thing to be stressed out about. If I have to be off of work for 6 weeks to recover from the surgery, off of work 6 weeks without pay, there's no way it could work out. I wouldn't even be eligible for short-term disability because I've not worked here a year.
GODDAMMIT!! GODDAMMIT!! GODDAMMIT!!
Okay, now that that's out of my system, I'll continue. When I got back up to my lab from talking with the Personnel guy, I got on the horn to my Cooterologist's office. I was able to get through to the lady who does scheduling for my doctor, and she understood the predicament. She pulled my file and said that we'd be able to move it back, but not by a long time.
My first day of work here was February 28; that means 6 months would be over on August 28.
"Anything after the 28th of August would be best, if we could make it that late," I told her.
She put me on hold while spoke to my doctor. After a few minutes went by, she said, "We can get you in on September 1st, which is the first Thursday after the 28th of August." (My doctor only does surgeries on Thursdays unless it's a baby being delivered by cesarean.) "The doctor didn't want to go much past that, so is that going to be okay?" she asked.
"Yes, I think that will work," I replied, hoping that I wasn't jumping off the ship before I knew the depth of the water.
So, I went back down to talk to the fellow in Personnel, and he told me that September 1st would be fine. He said that I would be turning in the paperwork before my 6 months had technically passed, but that he would make sure everyone knew that I would have my time in by the date I needed off. He also let me know that if all of my hours were covered by shared time, there would be no repercussions for missing that amount of time because it would have all been paid.
That eases my mind a little. But, to be honest, it's now 3 entire months that I have to be stressing and freaking out. I'm trying not to, and I don't want to think about anything bad happening, financially or medically. As a matter of fact, four separate women I've talked to have said that I'm going to be so glad if I go through with it. Two of them said that it's the best thing that's ever happened to them (medically speaking, I assume).
Oh, well for that. I guess only time will tell now, but I still feel like I'm going FUCKING CRAZY!!
Due to unforeseen complications, my surgery has been rescheduled for September 1st, 2005.
The unforeseen complications have to do with work, and work policy, and blah, blah, blah.
To give a background, there is a program at my work that allows people to donate or share their annual and/or sick leave. This shared time goes to someone who is needing to be out of work for a serious problem and won't have enough leave time to cover the time needed off. I talked to someone in the Personnel department here at work today, and he said that the hysterectomy (and the reasons I need one) would be sufficient to approve me for shared leave. The only problem:
I've not been in my current job for 6 months or more.
That little snipit of information had never before been mentioned, and now it seems that I have yet another goddam thing to be stressed out about. If I have to be off of work for 6 weeks to recover from the surgery, off of work 6 weeks without pay, there's no way it could work out. I wouldn't even be eligible for short-term disability because I've not worked here a year.
GODDAMMIT!! GODDAMMIT!! GODDAMMIT!!
Okay, now that that's out of my system, I'll continue. When I got back up to my lab from talking with the Personnel guy, I got on the horn to my Cooterologist's office. I was able to get through to the lady who does scheduling for my doctor, and she understood the predicament. She pulled my file and said that we'd be able to move it back, but not by a long time.
My first day of work here was February 28; that means 6 months would be over on August 28.
"Anything after the 28th of August would be best, if we could make it that late," I told her.
She put me on hold while spoke to my doctor. After a few minutes went by, she said, "We can get you in on September 1st, which is the first Thursday after the 28th of August." (My doctor only does surgeries on Thursdays unless it's a baby being delivered by cesarean.) "The doctor didn't want to go much past that, so is that going to be okay?" she asked.
"Yes, I think that will work," I replied, hoping that I wasn't jumping off the ship before I knew the depth of the water.
So, I went back down to talk to the fellow in Personnel, and he told me that September 1st would be fine. He said that I would be turning in the paperwork before my 6 months had technically passed, but that he would make sure everyone knew that I would have my time in by the date I needed off. He also let me know that if all of my hours were covered by shared time, there would be no repercussions for missing that amount of time because it would have all been paid.
That eases my mind a little. But, to be honest, it's now 3 entire months that I have to be stressing and freaking out. I'm trying not to, and I don't want to think about anything bad happening, financially or medically. As a matter of fact, four separate women I've talked to have said that I'm going to be so glad if I go through with it. Two of them said that it's the best thing that's ever happened to them (medically speaking, I assume).
Oh, well for that. I guess only time will tell now, but I still feel like I'm going FUCKING CRAZY!!
posted by Dora Maar at 1:31 PM
1 Comments:
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Nothing good ever came from worrying. (You know, don't worry, be happy and all that shit).
Everything'll be fine.
To think otherwise is just pointless. POINTLESS.
*hugs*
john
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