I hope and pray that your surgery is successful and you will be pain free. I was the same way about my last job. I retired 2/22/02 and thought I was doing everything I could to train the new girls but was very disappointed by my boss and the letter he wrote me the day I left. Your health and family are more important than a job. Good luck.
Lynn
>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!
-- A new friend