Will this work?

[PoolDoc]

sounds good.

[HOF-City]

I got to reading in some other threads and noticed that it's recommended to keep your pool at shock level until you can keep from losing 1ppm chlorine from evening until morning. Considering my chlorine went from 3 to 1 overnight, and now (6:15pm) its at .4, should I be doing this?

[PoolDoc]

If you dose with cal hypo, as instructed above, that will take care of it. Just make sure your chlorine doesn't get below 2.0 ppm

[HOF-City]

Added the cal hypo and borax. Waited a couple hours then tested. My FC is under 1 and CC is 3. You said to make sure Chlorine stays above 2. Should I keep adding? Pool is looking the same. Steps have remained clean thus far after scrubbing, basically just green-blue color and cloudy.

[PoolDoc]

Yeah. You probably don't want FC + CC > 10 ppm. But, until you reach that, yeah, keep adding chlorine.

[HOF-City]

So its been a few days of adding borax and chlorine through the skimmer. I also would add extra chlorine when the FC was below 2. This morning I tested, and for the first time the FC was higher than the CC. Here is what I had:
-FC=5.2
-CC=1
-PH=7.0
-Alkalinity=130
The pool is slowly becoming less cloudy, but the color seems the same. Still has a sea foam blue-green color, but I can see the entire shallow end for the first time today. I can also see deeper into the deep end, but not to the floor yet. The orange-rusty color keeps coming back on my steps. Usually after a day or 2. Should I continue with the routine I have been doing, or do you suggest anything different? Thanks for your help.

[Watermom]

Stay the course. Sounds like you're making progress. That pH is a little low. Bump it up a bit with some Borax.