Actually my husband is the main applicant and he called IRCC on Dec 30th to aks about the VO and the process status. The agent said he could not disclosure the VO, which is crazy since so many people got it from calling.tbh every case is different, therefore the processing time would be different! mine took 2.5 months and still no reply, but I've seen instances where people got updates within few days to a week after submitting a response for PFL. But you're absolutely right, this whole process is affecting us mentally and emotionally, and there's no way that we hit the pause button in our brain to stop thinking about this, it is just impossible.
btw I'm PNP inland applicant with AOR 7th of August just FYI.. do you know your VO @Elaine_B ?
My husband needs to call IRCC again and try to get the information from another agent. I recently found out that we can also send an e-mail requesting the vo info. So, we'll try that too.