Happy Birthday (belated) - Vickie Sue
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Ladies, Vickie Sue hasnt been on the board in awhile, though I was able to find out via Yahoo that her birthday was this week.
Vickie Happy Birthday! We miss you here, let me know if you need me to call you and walk you through navigating the new board.
Missing you,
Tessa
I was manager of a small tobacco shop. There were two other employees. When my RA treatment started in the summer of 07 I thought how lucky I was to have a job that allowed me the freedom to meet Dr appts and the like. A much younger co-worker helped me out a lot. My boss, who was in my store once or twice a week for a few hours, came in on my b/d, sat me down in the office, and had a chat with me. Evidently I was needing too much assistance with my duties due to my health problems. When someone else had to cover my hours due to an infusion or appt, I was not doing my job. And in the last year he could tell I had been having more physical problems. So the solution was going to be to demote me to working a few evenings, give me a cut in pay. It was like I was being punished for being sick. I was devastated. I loved my job. and my customers. I left a lot of blood sweat and tears in that little shop. I walked out the backdoor that nite in tears and haven't been back in there since. The depression I'd already been having just got worse. I mourned that chapter of my life for about a month.
I promised the short version so I'll just stop there.
Looking forward to getting reacquainted with everyone again. I'm off. It's MTX nite. I've read how many of you take oral MTX-and after hearing of your experiences I'm glad I've never had to do oral!
Happy Birthday!!!
I'm glad you're, back, although that is terrible about your job- I'm so sorry to hear that! Is that legal under the American's with Disabilities Act? I thought they were required to give you reasonable accomodations...
Thanks Kate. My b/d was back in Feb, and I just found Tess's post yesterday referring to it. As far as my job goes, after that first month away I realized I was actually relieved. It HAD been getting harder and harder to do my job correctly. I completed my SSD the week end after I left my job. Since I wasn't actually fired I never pursued whether it was legal under the disibilities act. At that point I felt uneeded and unwanted. I'm still really struggling to know what to do with all my free time now. I do nap every afternoon now!
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