Does anyone have any advice please? DH works shifts in a v manual job. He has some heart related issues but now also has what I think is a rheum condition. He is in loads of pain, fatigue, poor sleep and really cannot do his v manual job atm due to pain etc. He is not one to moan so I know it is not good.
We have exhausted the GP (not hugely helpful) and have sorted a private consult in a few weeks. We don't have private insurance but at least a heads up what is going on hopefully.
The issue is his work. He has spoken to his boss who is just unhelpful and won't commit to letting him do later shifts (he cannot do early shifts as he cannot even put his shoes on let alone do heavy lifting). It's up to his boss whether he gets paid if off sick. If he cannot do only late shifts until things improve at least then he cannot work. But, I worry that if he takes multiple days off (not consecutively) then this is worse than a period off work as more incidents. He's been off for two random days already since Jan and that is so unlike him.
Sorry this is long, Any thoughts? Neither of us are take time off people at all but this is not great at all (short term at least).