I'm with hsaa, and I work with Alberta precision labs.
Due to a major illness I had to take the majority of August off and July and suffered a loss of income.
I applied for STD as of last week, and I was wondering how long it takes to approve, and whether regular deductions like pension, etc are deducted. From my impression it seems only taxes and mandatory cpp is deducted but I'm not sure.
Thanks!
Im in my 30s and recently got ill with something respiratory, and as a result from hemoglobin fell from around 10 to 8 and 7.6 in a matter of 2 weeks. I've really been feeling the symptoms from this hemoglobin drop as i experienced intense brain fog, then being super tired , and now heart palpitations. I was told by my hematologist that if my hemoglobin drops any lower <7 that i'd need blood transfusions. I've never had blood transfusions in my whole life, maybe out of sheer luck but even when i was ill when i was young it didn't become this severe. Im going to be honest, im very anxious of transfusions and i want to ask how they are like , and if it's painful or not. I dont really want to take transfusions if i dont need to either, since i know it will definitely increase iron levels.
Edit : extra question, how long will it take to recover my hemoglobin back to "normal". My baseline is around 10