Today I had an OB appointment and I flat out asked her if she could write me off a few weeks early for sick leave. I even lied and told her that the stress is causing cramping and bleeding. (I know, but I wanted to drive my point home: I want to be off work and I NEED to be off work.) She told me she couldn’t do anything for me unless they can prove that my problems are a result of my pregnancy. That is utter HORSESHIT, because my coworker’s OB wrote her off on sick leave for her back even though she continued to bowl on a league every week. Also, how are cramping and bleeding not a result of being pregnant? And she didn’t seem at all concerned that I had cramping and bleeding. She didn’t ask me any specifics and didn’t suggest any testing or anything. My OB said, “You can certainly take your mat leave early.” I told her if I do that, I have to give two weeks notice, and after two weeks I might as well stay on for one more week, which is when I planned to go off anyway. She said, “Oh, I didn’t know that. I don’t know the rules.” Yeah right, you deliver babies for a living and you see a gazillion patients a day and you don’t know the government’s maternity leave policies? Nice try. So I came into work today to a desk LOADED with paperwork and the phones ringing off the hook and my adrenaline is pumping and I am angry and snippy and UGH, I want to cry because I don’t want my last few weeks of work to be this stressful.