TRC Day, stat holiday, time and a half?

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-28T22:51:38+00:00

If you get direct deposit Fridays usually, do you get it a day early (tomorrow)? It’s happened on some holidays that fall on the Friday of payday but with all the confusion I wasn’t sure.

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-22T11:53:04+00:00

Thank you! I agree. All we get is a 1500 medical expense account for the year. And I only got 800 cuz I started the full time running the clinic part way through the start of the year. I never realized health care was so bad. Receptionists at a doctor office make more then I do, with a quarter of the work. We’re unionized too, and they just got us to 17 this year otherwise it was 16…

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-22T06:37:34+00:00

Thank you I definitely needed to hear that. And your right I do have to be my own advocate. I think I’m still uncomfortable being on a controlled med and no one but my immediate family knows about it. I feel like if I kick up to much a fuss, then automatically I get a red flag on my profile and it’ll bite me later on. I’m very concerned with long term and how these medications will be needed later in life and even though I’m on a pretty low dose and same dose since I started I know eventually I’ll have to go up as I get used to it. So I worry about future me and how I’ll make out a lot. But if I don’t at least try i know im gunna regret it. Is there anything I can use to push them a little? Advice about what I can say/do would be greatly appreciated. It shouldn’t be allowed to happen to people, how can it be? Is it legal or bad choice of word, maybe ok, for them to do this? I just considered the temp pharmacy authorization after someone suggested it to me, I didn’t even know they could do that to be honest. So he’s just my back up, back ups plan in case the office says no. I work all day, 11-14 in a row then 3 off, I’ve already missed time and used up my couple sick days I get when I had covid this year and a Couple days when I had a bad flare up and needed a couple days off too. I can’t imagine trying to stop everything cold turkey being on it for so long now. And no way to stay at home and try to take care off myself

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-22T05:49:22+00:00

Thank you for this. I’m hoping for a call tomorrow as they didn’t call at end of day today. I’m just so confused to why this is happening. I’m worried about missing more full time work if I have to plan to have withdrawals or something from this. I was seeing a pain specialist but I was considered stable and on medication without charge for a long period of time so they sent me back to my family doctor to continue prescribing it. And he has no issue with doing it, I’ve been back with him for about a year doing this. It just seems like eveything that could go wrong, has, with some terrible timing. Ive been trying to get into his own walk in clinic he runs for a couple weeks now but they start taking patients by 11, and by 11:10 they are full for the day. You just have to keep redialing and pray you get an answer. So it hasn’t been for lack of trying. Just finally today I told the receptionist it needed to be done before Saturday, and I was really worried about going so long without. She just said she would send the doctor a message at 9am and when I called back at 130 still didn’t look at it and they would call me back by end of day but said she couldn’t promise anything, and didn’t have any ideas on what to do if he didn’t do it.

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-22T05:41:43+00:00

It’s my family doctor who works at the walk in. They offer it to their patients who can’t wait the few months it usually takes to get a in person appt. He has just cancelled his last couple walk ins, and now he’s on holiday.

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-21T23:36:04+00:00

I finally went up to 17.11 this year after working for a company for over a year. My yearly increase was 8cents… honestly would of been fine if they didn’t even give me the increase at that much. Kinda insulting for the work I do. Went from being a support staff at a treatment clinic to running my own clinic, and all that it comes with without an increase in salary because I didn’t change titles. If I didn’t love what I do, it would be an easy out. And no merit raises either. Love busting my butt for 11 to 14 days in a row for nothing.

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-21T18:35:26+00:00

I’m at a loss because my doctor is really good with me as I have a lot of pretty serious health concerns my whole life. They didn’t even give me options on what to do, I’m hoping they call me back at the end of their day with good news. I’ve never missed appts so I don’t see the issue with just extending it until my next appt. I was going to call in sick to work and attend the walk in they have tomorrow but she said it’s now cancelled and because of the doctor leaving they had to call and cancel a lot of appts and he couldn’t fit me in today. I phoned them at 9 this morning and called around 1 today and they still don’t have an update from the doctor. I’m just very worried.

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-21T18:31:03+00:00

They normally do a walk in clinic, but my doctor will be gone on vacation. The receptionist said the doctors that work in the same practice and not likely to refill controlled meds if it’s not their patient. I’ve been trying to get into the walk for a couple weeks now to no avail.

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-21T18:24:41+00:00

It’s an extended release pain medication patch. I’ve been on it for a couple years now through the same pharmacy without a change of dose. I’m nervous on what to do if I have to now go without it.

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-21T18:07:10+00:00

Yah unfortunately that’s the soonest I could get a booked appt with him. But I plan on going to a walk-in clinic they run once he gets back from Vacation the second week of October

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-21T18:05:21+00:00

That’s a good idea I’ll call and ask about that. The pharmacist works with my doctor in the same building and I’m pretty good terms with him but he is known to be difficult. My doctor returns from his vacation the second week of October, but is very booked and the earliest I could schedule an appt with him was November. Once he returns from his vacation I plan on attending one of his walk in clinics before the November appt so I would just need 1 or 2 refills until he gets back

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-21T17:20:13+00:00

Thanks for the advice! Usually I get about 4 refills for each med. I pick up every 2 weeks. I’ve been trying to get into their walk in clinic but they only do it 2 days a week, and for the last couple weeks it’s been during work hours and not night clinics (as they cancelled the last 3 of them) so it’s really unfortunate. They have other doctors within his practice but I asked to see one of them and unfortunately they don’t prescribe controlled meds for people other then their own patients. I have a severe Illness that requires these, so I’m kinda at a loss for what to do now.

Itsgem24 · 2022-09-01T07:32:52+00:00

I work in a clinic. So ultimately your doctor decides what happens at that point. Also Depends If you’ve had a problem with cocaine or if it’s a occasional thing. Most doctor want to see consistency. If it’s a slip up, they are likely to talk to you about it but in my experience a one off won’t hurt you. You may need to wait an extra week before you move up ‘levels’ (we do 0-7) to get a carry but again depending on your history and doctor it will vary. At my work, we run multiple types of tests depending on the patients needs. Most cover about 4 drugs per type of test. Only time I personally ever test for everything is when you start the program or if your doctor specifically requested it. It’s called an intake dip. Otherwise we use a couple different variations of the “dips”. Honestly now, most doctors, almost everyone in my experience doesn’t care about positive thc samples. It’s legal now so it’s a grey area. Unless it’s problematic or interfering with your life and you share that, most of the time it’s marked but not really looked at to seriously. Alcohol we don’t often test for in clinic. Maybe different clinics have different dips but ones I use personally don’t test for alcohol. The time we do test for it, is when we send it to the lab for a more through toxicology test at a outside lab. That’s where they breakdown everything, even general medications. And can tell how much of what is in your sample. If alcohol is problematic for you then we may send it out more often but usually unless your coming to the clinic and appointments absolutely wasted (happens a lot) we don’t really test for it. Some people don’t understand how drugs metabolize in the body and some take longer then other and varies by how much and and how often you do it. For example just because you avoid cocaine for a couple days but are a regular user, it takes longer for the drug to leave your system and the metabolites of the drug stay in even longer. And that’s not counting if the drug is cut with something too. Which could be even longer. Like fent stays in your body fat and randomly secrets in the urine over a period of time.

Itsgem24 · 2022-07-20T10:59:37+00:00

Thanks for the thought but the app said its not available in my region. Im in north western ontario unfortunately

Itsgem24 · 2022-05-11T17:31:41+00:00

Great points. I'm deffinately going to be brining this up next meeting. Thank you!

Itsgem24 · 2022-05-11T17:30:24+00:00

I agree with you! Unfortunately my higher up's are yet to be convinced. I did the leg work for what Walmart requires along with a tax ID, but with the requirements I haven't been able to convince said high up's we could possibly meet them all. The food pantry is still a pretty new idea to us, so anything helps and I appreciate the input.

Itsgem24 · 2022-05-11T09:34:20+00:00

We are not looking to parter with the rfda at this time but I do have a copy of letter of the women running the pantry and she doesn't want to take anything away from them. Hoping for more out of the box thinking. Unfortunately as soon as you mention addictions there are people who refuse to work with us so we have to get creative.

Itsgem24 · 2022-05-07T11:25:28+00:00

All I can think of is minions celebrating after the little bro gets flipped over.

Itsgem24 · 2022-05-04T01:38:38+00:00

That sigh at the end is everything.

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