Frustrated Journey

I've been away from my job at the BigBoxStore since the end of April.   I've been trying to get my health back so I can work a full shift again.  Because of policy, I am allowed 5 absences and then I will be terminated.   I used up my earned Protected PTO and today when I logged in, yep. There are 5 absences.   Sigh 

I still have to get my Primary Care Dr to submit my FMLA paperwork.  They gave me the run around to make an appointment.  And now I'm dreading all of it.  I finally got an appt for Tuesday, and am anxious about how that will go.

My Medicare doesn't kick in until July.  And neither will social security.  So the months of June and July will be ... scraping by.  

Sometimes just sharing this out into the interwebs makes me feel a little better.  

I started this Sunday night and was awake at 530am Monday, so I turned on the computer and printed everything, read everything, signed everything.  I made notes of dates, issues, results, and printed my physical therapy receipts.  

Now I just cross my fingers that this goes through and I can keep my job.  My biggest fear? Is that working will reactivate whatever is wrong in my leg/hip and I'll be off work again.  

I dislike this process so very much. So as I sit here, in frustrated worry,  I'm crunching my way through some Good n Plenty, an old timey fav!