OP – take a breath.
You’re panicking and also you don’t even know what’s going on but! See the physician, ask them detailed questions concerning the harm, what surgical procedure is likely to be wanted if any, what the restoration time is that if any, and the way disabled your husband will likely be afterwards.
It’s alright to be up entrance together with your points with childcare (NOT housekeeping….) and your work hours, and ask the physician truthfully what they assume you have to know now so that you could care to your husband, and maximize his restoration.
Have you ever ever used FMLA earlier than?
This isn’t a persistent medical downside, however an acute medical downside which completely generally is a purpose to make use of FMLA. However it isn’t used for doing housekeeping. It’s for care and medical administration of the one that is sick.
Can you’re taking tomorrow off? Rent some assist ASAP for a babysitter on the weekend and within the evenings for just a few hours (you’ve daycare?) and ask any shut associates/neighbors for some assist for a day or two. And take a day or two off your self if wanted, simply to see the place issues fall. You want a while to assume.
I’ve taken FMLA go away earlier than. It was as a result of I needed to give care on to the member of the family. For instance, taking relative to chemo/managing their rehab/doing all of the physician appointments and many others… and the member of the family couldn’t do these items themselves due to bodily/psychological points. The spirit of FMLA is to be caring for a member of the family – security, medical care, treatment administration, physician coordination and many others..
In case you are saying you want FMLA….. to do extra housekeeping…. that’s actually not proper and a good use of FMLA.
However I’m unsure you might be saying that, proper? Does your husband want you to take him to appointments? To remedy? To assist him dress? Bathe? Deal with his ache?
However he can…. take a taxi. Take a capsule himself. Go to a physician’s appointment himself. Wipe himself with a bedbath material, or skip showers till the weekends. You can even rent a caregiver to assist him for a pair hours a day. Caregivers can do gentle housekeeping, in addition to assist him with dressing/bathing, assist him do his workouts and even change dressings, do issues like laundry and making ready him a meal. You’ll be able to rent childcare.
And your husband has an intact mind, sure? HE can fill out each kind, make each name, even when it takes him extra time to do with one arm.
Bear in mind, to get FMLA you want a physician prepared to signal a kind agreeing that your husband is so disabled that his medical wants require your care. That’s the limiting issue.
I might learn the FMLA guidelines and so long as you might be following them, then I might completely take it if that’s what you want. However you possibly can’t say it’s for doing housekeeping.