People i work closely with are starting to ask questions and My boss is going to start questioning all my appointments.

I want to tell them but when I finally get my surgery date I will tell them.

Any advice?

I just tell them it's doctors appointments. No need to tell them any details. I've also given work when I will have surgery (without mentioning the type of surgery). When anyone asks me, I just say some health issues.

good luck with your work!

What I said was I have to have stomach surgery for some issues that have been bothering me & I will be required to have a lot of pre-op testing before my surgery date. I always made all of my appointments in the AM, so I went right to work after that...

They have no right to ask. Because of Heppa laws. Only if u chose to tell them.

I just told them it had dr appointments. Legally they can't ask you and you don't have to tell them. And I believe when I took my leave my form said abdominal surgery.

Can you try to schedule multiple appts on the same day to minimize? I have to drive 4+ hours, so while I don't have the employer issue, I need to consolidate for logistical reasons.

I am a manager over Human Resources and you do not even have to tell your boss why you need to take off. You just need to put in your request. Good luck with that. I also so went after work, on my lunch, or before work and I didn't have to tell anyone where I was going or what I was doing, until I was ready to do so.

I told them I'm having surgery and try to schedule them as late as possible in the day. That way, I can flex my time and not have to say anything about where I'm going.

I have a very flexible job, where I make my own schedule, but I still have to turn in where I went at the end of the week. With all of my medical appointments, dietitian appointments, and pre-op counseling appointments, it seems like I have appointments at least once a week. So in order to reassure my boss that I actually DO have appointments I went and privately spoke to him. I just told him I was having surgery in April and that there's a lot of pre-op things I have to do before I have have it. He didn't ask me what I was having surgery for (because legally, he can't) he just supported me and told me to take the time I needed to take. I've had a few co-workers ask me why I'm having so many appointments and I just tell them I'm having a private surgery...that usually shuts them up and let's them know that you don't want to talk about it.

It can get overwhelming with all the appointments. I tried to schedule things together (on the same day) as much as possible. Thankfully my primary doctor has weekend and evening hours so that helped out a lot. I also was able to get my endoscopy on a Saturday morning to help with taking a bunch of time off pre-op. For every appointment I asked if they had early morning or evening hours and worked it around my schedule as much as possible. It never hurts to ask. Good luck!