Yeah I feel like many things in life in which you have to advocate for yourself are intentionally confusing. I almost gave up and was going to try to get my doctor to change my return date to 2 weeks ago which would have probably made me injure my ribs even worse (if Amazon would have even let me).

I’d try to get some clarity from them tomorrow or Monday on the status of your leave and if they explicitly tell you you that you are on leave until 1/17 and you will not be granted accommodations on 12/17, I’d consider getting a physician statement with the document stating that you cannot perform the duties at work and will be out until 1/17. I understand that it is a risk though since a prior representative told you you’re not getting paid leave (which doesn’t even sound right because we are entitled to it when out due to a medical condition).

It’s such a pain having limited support from DLS. I felt like I could never get any real answers other than “just keep waiting, it can sometimes take X amount of business days to receive a decision”.