Carlacee
My Scheduling Dilemma
Dec 30, 2016
I live in Hamilton on the list for weighloss surgery but I'm in limbo. I lost my job back in June. I haven't been able to find one as yet. I've had 5 interviews so far but no luck. I have no idea when I will have the surgery. In October when I met the nurse for the first time, she said the surgery would be in six months. That would be April 2017 more or less. Now the problem. I am on EI which will run out in June 2017. If I find a job in Jan, Feb or March, I will be within the three month probabtion period before I become permanent. How would that be if I have to take six weeks off? If I have the operation in April, then by the time I recover, it will be close to the time my EI runs out. I will be in big, big trouble financially. I can barely keep up now financially.
I had my orientation last year Dec 2015. On December 28, 2016 I finally met with the dietician. I have to go back on March 20th to see her to show that I can follow a plan. I've been eating my last supper for the past year. After I prove that I can follow a healthy eating plan, then I will meet with the surgeon.
Early in 2016, I finished all my testing. The clinic still has not received all of the tests from the doctor and I've told the doctor's office three times to send the docs. They said they've sent them. Since there is obviously some kind of miscommunication, I will go to the doctor and physically get the results and hand deliver them to the clinic.
The dietician also sent me for more blood tests because she said the ones they have for me are not the correct ones. She also said that because my hemoglobin is low and I am waiting on my doctor's office to tell get an appointment for my to see the hematologist, they may not be able to operate on me until they know why it is low. All I know is that it's not due to low iron.
This is getting so frustrating. When I left the dietician a couple days ago I was so upset because this process is taking so long and I feel it is hindering me from going full force and looking for a job. I have been looking at the timeline of other people who live in Ontario and have had the surgery and it looks like many have had it within a year from the first orientation. Why is mine taking so long? It would have been perfect if I had the operation a year from the date of orientation. I would have had enough time to recover and still find a job without being in a desperate rush.
I don't see how I will have an operation in April when I have to see the dietician in March and then see the surgeon after that and only then will I have a surgery date.
I can't wait to see when this surgery will really occur and not try what I can do to find a job. I will kick myself if I sit around and let my EI run out and still not have had the operation. If it happens that I find a job before the operation, I will have to take it and then worry about the surgery and the time off I will need at the time.
I've mentioned my dilemma to the workers I've met with so far but they are following a process and can't bump me up for appointments or anything.