If it were me I would have support if you believe you may need it....
That's just doing things legally and what you're entitled to..... You wrote that they were already behaving in a cold manner.... You don't need that and you don't have to tolerate implied temper by people acting in a cold fashion
Remember you will also have your medical team on your side muji so if necessary you will have any doctors' notes that you need
You have tenure now so you are protected and if you need more time off due to being unwell or if you even need to work less you'll have people on your side to help to voice your needs "legally".... Gentle hug..... xo

That's not very nice of them. They are maybe worried about covering themselves now because they are in the wrong, and projecting because they feel guilty or in trouble. Hopefully they'll have more sensible heads on by Monday. ((Hugs)) you did the right thing.

Then forward a copy of the summary to faculty rep, for their records just in case.

Can't add anything that hasn't been said. But support sent. From my view point your tried to do more and your body said no. Honoring that and standing up for yourself takes heart and courage Good for you Muji. I hope all goes well Good energy sent surrounding you with light and support

Thanks, everybody. Knee, it is like that for me. I tried to do more and my body said no, and what I'm doing is honoring that, it's about honor not shame. Thank you. I appreciate everybody's support so much.

I copied every single post here and pasted it into my offline journal to keep and meditate over and absorb. I'm afraid in this, not just because I'm afraid of them, but because it's like Knee says. It's a moment of embracing my mortality to get past my own fear of it.

It's something we all must do some day as we age--including those administrators younger than me who are being cold to me and judging me now. Yet there's no real shame in what I'm doing. I'm "honoring" something we all must honor some day as we grow older.

My gratitude to you for that.

You seem to be preceding appropriately by scheduling a meeting and following the Goldilock's Rule:) Your requests for no overloads are legally supported and wise for your emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical health. Your higher ups should be legally obligated to meet your requests, and hopefully, will be wanting to do so because it is the "right" thing to do for you and would show character, empathy, and compassion on their parts. Praying the next few days go smoothly for you!

Thanks for your prayers, SuZQ, just one more day until the big meeting with the administrators Monday at 1pm. It shouldn't, I know, but it feels like being called to the headmaster's office. I think that's a little bit intentional on their part. Anyway, hoping it's one of those things where the waiting is the hardest part.


"The Waiting"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4L4Hh0-JmQ

Muji

I'm sorry this is happening to you Muji. Jewels gave great advice.

I really do wish the best outcome for you. Taking care of yourself is important and you're doing it. Good for you! The legalities are there and on your side. You deserve to be treated well.

Thanks, Hope, I like your username right now. I'd like to care for myself and stand on legalities to get good treatment. I hardly slept last night, though, from anxiety over Monday's meeting at 1pm with my supervisors and HR about it.

I was telling someone else here that in 2000 seventeen years ago I lost everything in a perfect storm of a sudden divorce and the elimination of my department at work out of the blue. I had been diagnosed with PTSD for 5 years and had my group, therapy, and meds support together.

But those 2 crises at once knocked all of that down and I ended up in the hospital and lost my house to bankruptcy. I'd like for this crisis to have a softer crash landing this time. I'm too old to withstand it all on my own like in 2000, seventeen years ago. That's why the ADA's there, right? So I'm trying to care enough for myself to take care and call in ADA protection, but I'm being fought by supervisors about it.

What's funny is that I teach death and dying classes to nursing students. When I got going again after my crash in 2000, I became a hospital chaplain. I learned my limits and my own mortality from that 2000 crash, so I tried to be helpful to others who crashed as an ER chaplain. Then when my mortality limited me in 2010 with kidney disease and I had to leave standing hospital work to teach sitting down, I accepted my mortality and adapted to it taking the job teaching death and dying to nurses like I do.

I've processed my own mortality many times teaching these classes, and I've been open to my supervisors at work. But now my time has come and though I thought I'd prepared the way to have better support for a crash now in 2017 than in 2000, I find my supervisors are younger than me and haven't experienced their mortal limits yet, so they don't believe me in mine.

I'm in crisis again, and I have this meeting with them Monday at 1pm where I've got to care enough to insist on my ADA rights even as they fight me. It's tempting not to care and let them roll me over for the sake of their own denial that they're witnessing my mortal limits they'll experience one day, too. I"m in a place of PTSD flashbacks to 2000 with anxiety about facing all of these supervisors who are in denial.