I had a meeting yesterday with my company and my rehabilitation specialist and we've agreed on a return to work schedule. I will be starting November 14th at 2 days/week, working up to full time over a 7 week period. Best part about the schedule is that I have managed to work around my Vegas trip, so I'll be spending US Thanksgiving with my family. My parents are coming from WA, my brother and his wife from Hawaii, it's going to be wonderful. I can't wait to be surrounded by family that love me; that feeling of unconditional love is so therapeutic.
As far as my job goes, I will keep my position as a Business Systems Analyst, however for the first few months I will be working in QA to help them out while I learn our new software and get myself back up to speed. My position requires me to be an expert in our software products and after a 17 month absence I'll be coming in as a beginner. I couldn't be happier with this plan, I like doing QA and it's a hands-on way of learning, instead of just reading a bunch of documents. (I will still have a pile of documents to go through but at least that's not all I'll be doing.)
Having a return schedule and an idea of what I'm coming back to has eliminated my stress regarding my return to work. I've waited for this response since October 3rd and I've been worrying the whole time. I tried to tell myself not to worry but actually listening to myself and controlling the worrying was pretty much impossible. So now that my stress levels are way down I am just going to try to enjoy the next week and a half of lazy days and use this time to work on preparing myself mentally for my return.
Today is a happy day. :)
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