I am Now Officially a Lab Rat

I wish you only the best with your new trial, keep us posted.

As far as your wife goes, I too worked in healthcare and was "forced out" after many years of dedication, high performance appraisals, etc.  My situation was a bit different in that I didn't qualify for FMLA because my terminally ill family member was an uncle.  I dropped my status to part-time for over a year with absolutely no problems.  Then suddenly my manager said I could no longer have a set schedule of tuesdays & thursdays which allowed me to take my uncle for his weekly infusions.  I basically begged her to work with me, he literally had weeks left.  The response was quite heartless and forced me to take a Leave of Absence.....but they could not gaurantee my job would be mine when I was to return.  They quickly replaced me within 2 weeks.  My uncle passed 8 weeks after my Leave began.  Eleven days after his passing I turned 62 and decided to take an early retirement.   Although it's been a year now, I am still left with bitterness over the unbelievable heartlessness of it all.  Just thinking about it brings me to tears.  People would literally say to me, he's your uncle......as if it didn't matter.  He was always like a 2nd father to me, and I was the only one here to care for him, I'd never turn my back on him.  I can only hope a big dose of KARMA is headed their way at that hospital.  And if that's not bad enough, I feel guilty for thinking like that.    So, you and your wife are not alone and I suspect it's a trend.  Sad.

Donna~

Footstomper said:

Bosses

The Principal of my school did everything she could to help me keep my job. Employing a sub full time even when I was officially working part-time. She knew that there would be days, due to weakness or side effects, when I wouldnt be able to make it in. Eventually we decided that it was best for me, and best for my students, that I take earlier retirement. Donna, I can only hope that a big dose of karma goes their way. Especially when I discovered that middle management, for whom I was just an inefficient number on the payroll, wanted me fired pretty much on day 1.

There are good people out there.

.....I have learned since that I'm not the only one this has happened to.  Apparently there is a move afoot to eliminate those long-term employees for those with less experience due to costs.  Genius!  I'm guessing they hadn't considered there are also risks involved in that kind of move?  I hear patient care is suffering now and that breaks my heart.  (I worked with kids, pretty exclusively)

Donna~

I have just been told I will be in the stage three Keytruda Epacadostat/Plecibo trial... Feeling lucky