very frustrated re: time off work for surgery

As I am getting closer to surgery, no date yet but meeting the surgeon on March 3, so thinking surgery might be in May with any luck.  I have to testify at a trial for a week in May for my job  and I mentioned it might conflict with surgery but was told that I have to schedule my surgery date around the trial :(

As you all know, this is a very long slow process and its just so frustrating that I might have to turn down a surgery date because of work :( 

Ah geez, that is rotten!  Who knows, maybe the trial will be short or get bumped, hopefully so.  Or maybe you will get surgery sooner than you think.  I really hope it works out for you, as I know the waiting is very hard.  Good luck!

contact a lawyer, ask her/him if they can ask you to reschedule surgery. I'm thinking that they may have to work around your schedule, instead of vice versa.

They can't make you change your surgery, you tell them when it is and how long you will be off.  If it helps, I went back to work full time 10 days after my surgery with no problems.

If you do have to schedule around your work obligations remember that in the grand scheme of things a few week delay in surgery really isn't as big a thing as it might seem right now.