Blog break

Yeah, I took a break. The last 2 weeks have been insane. All I could do and can do is pray for our situation and trust God will unveil his plan to us.
Like I said in my last 'featured music' post, the reason for my stress belonged in its own posting. Well... here you go.

Wednesday, May 18th, Hubby and his partner were at work sitting down at their job site waiting for their third partner to show up with a hose. While they were waiting, their boss and foreman showed up. Without bothering to find out why they were sitting there, they told the guys to come with them to HR, but before they left, the foreman went to the phone to talk to one of the other guys on the crew. Once in HR, they were interrogated (separately). The supervisor and foreman's initial claim was that there was no safe access to the phone. Problem was the foreman used the phone, so if there truly was no safe access to it, then there should have been no way for him to do so. Since he was about to get himself in trouble, he sent the guys home- suspended pending further investigation- and called the house thursday telling hubby to come in friday afternooon for another meeting.

At that meeting, the safety issue was dropped, and out of nowhere they claimed hubby and his partner were sleeping when they arrived on site. Both denied it, since it wasn't true, but were interrogated some more, and told to come back monday afternoon for yet another meeting. On monday they laid a 'contract' in front of hubby that said he was on a 1 year probation, therefore the three-strike-rule no longer applied to him, and if they felt, for any reason in the next year, that his work is 'not up to par' they can fire him on the spot. He had to sign or be terminated immediately. So, reluctantly, he signed.
So they told him to come back to work Wednesday night. Miss monday and tuesday night, but come back on wednesday- the last day of his rotation.... then be off another 4 days.

Well, all day Tuesday and Wednesday I was having pain with nursing, and it was getting worse, so hubby offered to take me to the walk in clinic. We have FMLA paperwork that's supposed to cover anything wrong with me til end of June. So he called off Wednesday night to take me to Billings, with FMLA as his excuse. Thursday morning the HR lady called and told him he was going to be terminated because the FMLA became invalid after I delivered... despite the fact it's dated by the doctor to cover me til the end of June. But the nurse wrote 'after delivery she will need to be assessed by a different doctor' so they're using that statement to say I need ANOTHER set of paperwork from ANOTHER doctor to continue to qualify me for FMLA. And I have to get it in to them before his scheduled work time (MONDAY MORNING) or he'll be fired.
SO I had to get an appt with my regular doctor on the 26th, and HOPE he'd fill the paperwork out for me then.

BUT I have a good hunch that even if I DO get this paperwork filled out and turned in, he'll be lucky to get in a full 4 day rotation before they find some other B.S. reason to can him.
It's like they drew his and his partner's name out of a hat on Wednesday, and said "Let's screw their job all up today". And they've been pretty successful so far.

So, I had my doctor's appointment on the 26th, and my doctor wanted me to get another MRI on my back. And he refused to sign the paperwork until I had the MRI and came back for my follow up appointment.
I was crushed. I was so mad and sad at the same time. I sat at the checkout desk getting my appointment times, and started fighting back tears. My head was reeling and I felt sick. I couldn't dam up the waterworks any longer and I started bawling. I told the receptionist to just forget about the appointments because I couldn't go to them anyway, and excused myself.

I explained to hubby what the doctor said and apologized. I just didn't know what else to do.
So hubby got on the phone when we got home and talked to the head of the HR department for an hour or so. I went straight in and laid down for a nap. I was just physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted.

Somehow hubby managed to convince them not to fire him immediately. They will wait for the FMLA paperwork. And so long as they get it and approve it, then I will be covered again, and they can't use FMLA as a reason to terminate him again..... hopefully.

I had my MRI Saturday the 4th. I go back to the doctor for the follow up on Thursday the 9th. And I'll have to sit there and listen to the doctor preach to me the importance of back surgery and how there's no other options. A fusion will change my life and I'll never have back pain again.
And maybe someday I'll poop rainbows. Who knows.