Rant About My Flu Shot

 K here goes my little rant!!

 

Got a call from work on Monday nite. 'We've had a resident diagnosed with Influenza A and because you have not received your flu shot you will not be allowed to return to work on Wednesday unless you have your dr. give you a prescription for Amantadine'.

 

O.k., alright, so I call the dr. the next morning; get lucky enough to hit a cancellation and we get in for 1 that same day, Tuesday. Dr. says 'I don't like the drug, I won't give it to you, I wouldn't even want you to go home and look after your young daughter while on this drug' 'What I will do is give you and Hannah a flu shot right now'.

 

So I ask 'what will I tell work'? 'Tell them your dr. wouldn't give it to you and they may still make you stay home for two weeks till the needle takes effect' he says.

 

I call work and am booked off for Wednesday as I have not started taking Amantadine and am instructed to call the local health unit to see if perhaps the drug epiflu will be a reasonable substitute and be acceptable as an option for thier requirements of my predicament of being allowed to return to work. The health unit tells me they do not recognize that drug as a substitute that has been proven to work and that my company finds it acceptable and I will need to call them and see just how long I need to be on that drug before I am allowed to return.

 

OK>HOLD ON>did you catch that?? Work led me to believe that it was the health unit that would not let me return and the health unit led me to believe that it was my company that would not let me return.

 

I have spent all day on the phone to no avail because everyone, work included keeps giving me the run around. I have already worked through the scenario of me being off the two weeks and we can afford it because of all the stat holidays in that period, so that I am prepared to tell my employer that they better go ahead and fill my shifts because I will not be back for two weeks.

 

WAIT!! That is UNTIL I talk to my union rep who informs me that I will not be paid for those stats because one must work the scheduled day before and the scheduled day after the holiday in order to receive the holiday pay unless there is a verified personal illness. 

 

Man, oh man, it's just on principal alone now that I want to tell them they will have to find someone else willing to work during the Christmas break because I have had enough of their bullsh!t and runaround!!!!

 

I still do not know what I will be doing and you may suggest that it's all my fault in the first place, because why didn't I just get the flu shot, RIGHT??? But the thing is not one administrator had approached me yet at work to come in to their office and get the flu shot (which is the common routine every fall) and when I normally refuse (which I have for all 10 other years I have been there) I am asked to sign a paper and told that in the case of an influenza outbreak, that I may be asked to stay at home until it is over (again normal protocol)

 

But I am refusing the flu shot under the pretense that there will need to be an outbreak of influenze, not a single case!! I was under the assumption that outbreak meant that there was an increase in the disease and there were many people breaking out with it. Guess I was wrong!!!!!!!

 

They have advised me that I could go and get the prescription from a dr. in a clinic or emergency, but again the principal of the thing is that my dr. advised me against it!!

 

Or am I just being stubborn??lol

That could very well be

 

Thanx for listening!! Any and all comments would be greatly appreciated in the hope that I can take the words out of your mouth and along with mine, use them all in my rant against the administrator, LMAO!!