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Waiting can be torture - but you have had the patience for all the other parts of the process so you got this. It is nice once you get a date and you can do more planning, but until then there's nothing you can do about it. When you get a date, it goes really fast! So there's that to look forward to.
Hi,
I just told my supervisor and gave her a note from my doctor that said I would be off of work for up to six weeks as Certified sick leave, which I had, if you have no sick leave you can request sick leave to been advanced to you.
I told my supervisor nothing about why I was off just that I would be off for that time as they are not required to know or ask.
I am out on the road and do have to lift up to 40 lbs so I took the full six weeks, but if I was at a desk I would have been fine in 2 weeks but I would have probably not been able to do full days as I slept a lot the first month after surgery.
I never notified HR or Sun Life.
Hi Everyone,
I'm at the point where I'm waiting for the call for a surgery date. I've met with the surgeon already and am good to go...almost.
My question is for anyone working in the federal government, what do you have to do prior to your surgery? I'm assuming I'll be off for 2 to 3 weeks (hopefully not longer as it's only a desk job), but do I need to notify HR, contact Sun Life, what is the process on that regard before surgery?
Obviously I'll let my director know I will be having surgery on XX date and will likely be off for 3 weeks, but what else might I have to do?
Thanks everyone, and I'm very much looking forward to this and will probably be much more active on this in the coming weeks.
I'm so ready to finish this part of the process!
My file was sent to the coordinator to schedule my consent appointment about a month ago and I'm still waiting to hear when I'll see the surgeon.
It's so frustrating sometimes feeling like your life is just in limbo waiting to plan things around surgery. I know it'll be sometime in the next few months but I can't even let my work know roughly when I'm going to need to book time off until I have a surgery date.
Its still way faster than in other areas of the country, I know (I was referred last Nov) but I really just want to get done with this part of the process!
Do you get to skip having to take iron if you take prenatal vitamins? My nutritionist suggests centrum select 50+ for me but I'm interested in hearing about what others are taking.
My referral was in July and had a call earlier this week inviting me to attend orientation on Tuesday October 1st, just looking to see if anyone else from here will be there as well?
that's absolutely right - we all take them - men and women. All it means is there are larger doses and more vitamins than regular multivitamins and as we are all experiencing malabsorption you need heavier vitamin doses. There is nothing inherently "feminine" about them. Nothing that will affect tetesterone etc - just larger doses of what we need.
Can anyone recommend a good physiotherapist, chiropractor or a massage therapist that would help. I'm in the west GTA.
You are correct,,, that is what our team told us to take. I buy the Costco prenatal vitamins and my blood work has been good ever since surgery 10 months ago. Meg is right that they just have a few extra nutrients over a regular multi vitamin so I'd follow the instructions they gave you.
That's what I take -- it has more iron per pill than regular multivitamins. Some people choose to take regular multis and an extra iron but you should definitely check with the clinic if you want to do something different. It also really depends on your blood work and how your levels track over time. Recently my iron has dropped so I've also added Feramax iron.
