SD Adventures What just Happened?!?

The world is always throwing us curve balls! Dougal has been accompanying me to work for almost 2 months. Great experience, with no problems, and alerted to me several dozen times so just the perfect companion to keep me on level, even my co-workers on my hall have stated. I was called into the facility boss's office this afternoon and was told that she had screwed up as she didn't understand the policy behind reasonable accommodations and was informed that the original reasonable accommodation was never fully "certified" (for lack of a better word). So Dougal is no longer allowed on the property until we start from square one with a new reasonable accommodation request. By the way, this boss is awesome, I love honesty and her leadership style, it would have been easier for her to put in an email and let my fume over the situation than sitting down with me and explaining the entire situation.

So, here we go again, and my cyclic PTSD symptoms are about a month away. So that you know the worst of my symptoms start around October and continue through till about April. This corresponds with the main time frame where I was in my combat zone. I think this is going to be a rough path this time. Thankfully I am a paperwork hoarder and still have all the documentation I had the last time I went through this process, and have added email threads and letters from co-workers to add to everything. Bad news I am going to have to deal with the "Don't have a relapse" lady. If you don't know about that story you can read it at Oh, The Phone Rang!. Also, on the plus side this boss handed me the actual department policy on reasonable accommodations, nothing truly surprising there except timelines, such as once I put the request in they have 15 days to answer it and everything has to be in writing. Something that the "Don't have a relapse" lady seemed to have a very hard time doing the first time through. Happily, I have the email chains...

I plan to submit the new request tomorrow along with all of the attachments (and a few new ones). The 15-day countdown will start once I hit the "Submit" button. Ill keep you posted here.

I am hoping that this will not take as long as the last running about 3 months before the facility boss approved Dougal coming in last time. I have also included my supervisors from the start this time hopefully cutting the time down by keeping them in the primary loop. Just for information I don't actually work for the facility boss, I work for a separate department with a different set of bosses. So I am trying to decide to make this its own new series of blogs or tie this one to the original series.