Just an update

I'm starting to get my head wrapped around this whole thing and finding some silver linings :)  And I even felt like going out this past week so a friend and I went out to celebrate her new job.

Jen, I know the odds are definitely in my favour, but hearing  the word "cancer" in a sentence with your name in it, puts a whole different spin on it.

Anyway, I got the paperwork at work for my time off all done.  Initially I was facing 6 weeks unpaid leave because when I moved to my new job at the end of November last year, I lost all of my accumulated sick leave from my other job.

However, Human Resources and PayRoll sat down with me and they are going to play around with the coding so that I actually will get 1 extra full time pay cheque and will only have 4 weeks unpaid leave.

The last week of my medical leave is supposed to be a week that I'm on vacation.  Instead of trying to reschedule it by the end of April next year (which is pretty much impossible where I work because of the number of clinic nurses), they are going to code that I'm on vacation the first week after I start my medical leave, then I'll use my sick days and then be off on unpaid medical leave.

I could have opted to have the vacation time paid out to me, but employment insurance would have taken that lump sum into account and it would have affected any benefits that I'm entitled through them.

So the fact that I'll only be missing 2 pay cheques is a huge burden off of my mind.
 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi