too sick to work

[Guest guest]

Hello everyone,

I have been off work since Tues. Went to my PCP yesterday for severe headache &

she prescribed maxalt-MLT for migraine & phenergan 25mg. for nausea. The Maxalt

seemed to work initially & the phenergan knocked me out for 24 hours!!!! No

joke. I can still feal the effects of it. Any way, my gallbladder surgery is

coming up in a little over a week & I mentioned to her going off on disability

until a few weeks after the surgery & she said & I quote " You will feal better

if you go to work " . NOT!!!! Now, I have been working & putting up with pain,

even tried to go off of pain med. unsuccesfully. When I went to work on Monday

the office manager was being a total B word to me. She is very moody & very two

faced & plays alot of mind games with the staff. She usually leaves me alone

but I was the only one there to pick on that day. When I left the office I

thought to myself " I wouldn't put up with this if I were well, let alone when I

feal like crap " . Well needless to say I called

in sick on Tues. & the rest of the week. To tell you the truth, I don't ever

want to go back. Looking back now I am wondering what ever made me think I

could work under such stressful conditions again. I tend to be very hard headed

& sometimes have to learn things the hard way. I would rather scrub toilets

than go back to that place! The thing that bothers me is my boss (the owner),

is a sweetheart of a man & like a Father to me. The office manager tends to

manipulate him so he doesn't see what goes on. Don't get me wrong, he is not

stupid but she hides alot of the childishness from him. I would really like to

go in next week & when & if she starts in on me, really let her have it then

walk out. The other side of me wants to never go back & just tell them I am too

sick & have to go back on disability. I think my G.I. doc would agree & fill

out the forms for me.

Any feed back any of you have would be greatly appreciated.

Take care,

K.

[Guest guest]

I could be wrong, but your surgeon will most likely not give you a

release to go back to work until 4-8 weeks after the surgery.

Most of the people that I know who had galbladder surgery by

laparoscope were out a minimum of 4 weeks and one person

was even out close to 12 weeks I think. It all depends on your

recovery and the philosophy of the surgeon but most will not

release you until you do your first follow-up visit and that is

usually 2 weeks after the surgery (some have you come in the

first week - especially if the procedure was done as an

out-patient one).

So I would think you can have a short break before you have to

make up your mind about your job. My understanding is that

getting disability from the government or your workplace is pretty

darn hard and takes a long time. However, you may want to

consider applying for family medical leave...this would give you

more days off without hassles (but may not be paid depending

on your earned time off bank). This is much, much easier to get

than disability but there is a limit to how many hours you can use

in a calendar year I think.

laurie