Hi everyone! I hope this message finds you having a wonderful pain-free
day. Not so for me, but I'm trying to be positive. I haven't posted
here in a while. Probably mostly because of my Laporoscopy that's next
thursday to look for adhesions and endometriosis and I'm very nervous.
I'm worried they won't find anything wrong, or they take out the
adhesions and then the pain still won't go away, or that I might die,
and of course the post-op pain. The recovery room is the pitts! I find
that it's easier for me to deal with all of this by trying to distract
myself with work and such. So, needless to say, I'm a nervous wreck.
Oh, and to add to my stress, my boss reprimanded me last week because of
all the doctor appts and medical tests I've been going to and missing
work because of it. Apparantly, it doesn't matter that I work weekends,
work late and miss lunches to make up this time and also that my
department is meeting it's goals and deadlines. Here I thought I was
doing a damn fine job considering the chronic excrutiating pain! I think
in the last 6 months, I've left work early maybe 3 times because I
couldn't function any longer. I think I'm protected under ADA right
now, but Illinois is an at-will state, which means, I think, that they
can fire you without any real reason. I'll post another update after
surgery. Talk to you soon! God Bless!