January 2010

Saturday the 9th



Well here I am sitting on the couch wondering what to do with myself. Still out on stress leave - yet it cannot be REAL Stress Leave until one has dotted all of the Is and crossed all of the Ts.

I'm more stressed out now than I was two weeks ago and that is because I have no idea whether my claim for Workers Compensation will go through - I need to see an Investigator and a Psychiatrist, on top of the Clinical Psychologist whom I meet with each week. So the question is: am I going to end up off work, perhaps with no job and consequently out of money?



In the meantime I have some vacation leave, very few sick days left and some weeks left of my Long Service Leave. If my claim isn't accepted and I run out of the above leave, what will happen?



Do I quit now and try to find someone who will hire on a 58 year old woman? Do I just bite the bullet and go back to school at the beginning of the year, and probably be in the same position as I am in now before the end of first term? Do I sit back doing nothing but visit with my clinpsych, the department's investigator and an independent psychiatrist and wait the two to three months that it will take to find out whether my claim has been recognised and then duly go through the processes of going back to a school of the department's choosing?



SHIT - it's all too bloody hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!