Me too. I'm completely out of time. Dh brought home the flu in early Feb and coughed all over the place. He has no concept of germ control by hand washing. Ugh! He did test positive for the flu so 2 days later, they didn't bother testing me. The Tamiflu did help mine go away faster but still it eventually became a sinus infection which for me requires a trip to the ENT, antibiotics & steroids. I found the Tamiflu not so bad by taking it with meals.
My immune system is so run down. I had mono in Dec that caused Reactive Arthritis + fatigue from Hell-o! I could hardly walk for weeks and even once I could, something simple like taking ds to a dr appt would wipe me out the rest of the day and the next day too. I've been out of work since Dec 6. It's been getting better but I really didn't need the flu & sinusitis on top of all that.
At my follow up appt with the rheumatologist she called it Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and signed me out of work til next January but if they won't hold my job all that time. I have to return by next Wed when my FMLA ends. We are on our feet and on the go, fast-paced, all day so I don't know how I'm going to do it. I have to at least try. If I collapse at work at least I know I didn't just sit home saying I can't work.
I already hired ds17 as a biweekly cleaning service. If I'm going to pay someone, it might as well be him. He does a good job but doesn't do it all at once which is a pain but hopefully with more experience, he gets quicker with it & develops a system to be more efficient. It's been record-high warm here in NJ so I let him skate (I know he's itching to get outside.) but with lots of rain coming he will get it done.
I didn't really feel like talking about it before but now that you mentioned PTO got me thinking how depleted my bank is now and even though I have several days scheduled off in March, I will have to give them back because I don't have time in the bank to cover them.
I'm sick & tired of being sick & tired.
After looking at disability options & very high possibility of it being denied has really made me sit down and look at our big financial picture & while I'm so relieved to have 99% of our debt gone, we still have a mortgage and can't get by on one income. All the more reason it is best to hunker down and pay everything off. This all started abruptly out of nowhere.