Would someone please be so kind as to direct me to where I need to go next?
As it is (for at least the next 10 minutes), I am slated to return to work tomorrow. Guess who was the last to find out about it? Me, of course. Work already knew and expected me to come in. Where was the phone call from work, or corporate, or the clinic itself telling me? It's obviously a good thing that I do follow-up work and make calls. If I were a total deadbeat, my work call would come and go without me knowing it.
In a span of two hours roughly, I was told I was on my own for the situation, and promptly was ready to call a lawyer to help dispute the rejection from Saturday. Then it turns out I come in tomorrow... then I was told to report for duty in "20 minutes" (meaning today)... then oops, we looked at the wrong shift slot, tomorrow is still good... then, why are you plotting to come back to work so soon? We need fingerprints... and scheduled them for tomorrow without informing me.
Goodbye lawyer idea, and goodbye apparently to the validity of the dispute. It wouldn't be worth its weight in gold. Being that I'll be at work tomorrow, doesn't that deflate the case by itself?
I've noticed in recent weeks that gray hair on me is not an afterthought. Granted, I wear my hair longer these days, so the streaks are more apparent. But that's the point: they are. Not just a few hairs, but a couple strands on my right side. I can't argue the fact they've been earned in the last several years.
But today I played the ping-pong ball, as my situation did so many 180s in a 2-hour span that I exasperated Mike, and probably confused poor Jenni beyond belief. And that's been part of the physical problems this injury has provided: if I need to do a 180 degree turn, it has to be in stages: head & neck, feet, then the hip area.
Okay, so they say that I'm 110 percent and ready to go. Everyone I know disputes that; nevertheless it looks like I've run out of ammo to boost my case, which I swear is LEGITIMATE.
The only thing I can say now is that it could possibly be arthritis. But isn't arthritis more persistent and steady, rather than coming or going in various degrees?
Just let me call the entire scenario this year a severe case of arthritis until I find out more. Fred Sanford would have been proud, believe me.
