I wish I could do that. We worked out a schedule where I would do two days a week from home and three in the office, with the understanding that there would be days that I would be unable to walk and the schedule might have to be flexible (this was after the offer of a 5 day telework schedule).

Shortly after this, I had a bad Tuesday and asked if I could switch one of my telework days. His answer was not to make a habit of it. I honestly have no way to predict which days I'll wake up and feel normal and which days I'll be stiff as a board. If I'm stiff and have to take extra medicine just to move, its difficult to physically get to the office and I'm not willing to put other people on the road at risk to drive there.

I'm really tired of the mixed signals I get from the them. They took six months to give me a parking space, then bent over backward to help me out by finding me a job that was more suited to my disability. Then they changed their mind and left me in the position I was in (which technically requires carrying boxes and has created somewhat of an issue).

After that they denied my FMLA paper saying I had to be completely out of leave before I'm eligible (which I've told isn't true), but I can't be completely out of leave because they're forcing me to take advanced sick and not letting me touch my annual for sick days (which also disqualified me from borrowing sick leave as I had to be out of annual).

They did give me most of the benefits of the FMLA despite not being on file and offered the 5 day telework (which I should have taken), but are now starting to give me a hard time when my disease becomes unpredictable.

I'm sorry this turned into a rant, and maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I get the feeling they are bending the rules to make it hard on me, but then throwing me a bone so I don't consult a lawyer and find out what rights I have.

For example, denying the FMLA and sick leave borrowing program based on criteria that they won't allow me to fulfill, then offering me the five day telework, which was a nice gesture but they knew I wouldn't want.

I'm just not sure what to do. For example, I used a month of advanced sick on my surgery. I know people with months of sick who would donate, but I'm not eligible because I have almost a month of annual accrued that they've decided I can't use on sick days. The way they're working it, I literally have to take a month long vacation in order to accept donated sick leave.

Something just seems wrong with the whole situation--maybe after I finish this week's round of IVIG, I'll take my month long vacation. I think I need it. <sigh>.

EDIT: My timeline is a little screwed up. I should go back through my emails and figure out what happened when and also probably ask HR/a lawyer/someone who knows something about this game their playing with the leave, as it makes no sense to be in the whole on sick leave and have accrued annual making me ineligible for sick leave programs.