In a surprising turn of events, I received my PPR mail this morning. Saw a ghost update on 16th and was waiting at the edge of my seat. Not sure exactly what brought me here to this moment but I would echo everything other PPR receivers have already said; don't give up on following up with IRCC through web forms, calls or even reaching out to your local MP if possible. I live outside of Canada but my partner who lives in Canada followed up with the MP in their area and they still helped! They basically got us updates on where our application was in the process, like nothing on the portal showed my medicals were extended to June 2020. I got this info from the MP's office.
Anyway, if there are people still waiting, it does happen! And also my application very swiftly moved to Ottawa VO as the status updated.
@kzeed12 , thanks for your good wishes man! So grateful to all the peeps here who helped me keep my spirits up!
AOR: July 18 2018, Medicals passed: August 08, 2018 (Extended to June, 2020), RR on employment (did not get any official request for additional docs, though I did proactively upload more docs for employment verification based on the GCMS notes comments)