Re: To work or not to work

[Guest guest]

I would love to be able to work and bring in a paycheck again..

I have never been one to just sit on my rear watching it get bigger and bigger..

I tried going back to work.. I ended up using my pay check to pay for all the stuff I broke.. Beer Mug's are not cheap.. I broke more than what I was making..

I canot work more than two hours at a time who in the heck is going to hire me to work 2 hours a day. and I couldn't wor every day either.. It upset's me so much that I cannot work.. Know wounder I am so depressed all the time.. I have pain constantly on a scale of 1-10 my pain is a 7 every day.24/7 and if I try and do house work.laundry,vaccuming or any thing like that. I will hurt like mad for two to three day's. and that beniffits knowbody cause when I hurt. I am a ROYAL B****..

I do clean my house I can't do it like I used to or like I would like to but it get's cleaned. it's livable..It just takes me a lot longer..Dad and Jake both help me out with out them I do not know what I would do..

oops rambling again sorry folk's.

Hug's Marie

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[Guest guest]

Alenna,

I agree with you 100%. I want to work, mostly because there are things that I want and we can no longer afford. I would love to buy name brands for my kids, go on trips etc. but it just can't happen at this point. Once in a while on a really good day, I will help my hubby on a project and then be in bed for 2 days because I thought I was up to it.

2 days in a row are out of the question!!

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I definately understand the pain problem from working. I never go into

or out of a flare. Since the fibro came on full blown in 2001 I have

hurt 24/7. Most of the time it stays around a level 5 with meds. I

will admit I am one of the lucky ones. I don't have any really bad

back/disk problems, no artritis, no diabetes or other really serious

health problems, etc... I've just got fibro, asthma and clinical

depression and I'm sure that is one of the reasons I have been able to

continue to work. And I am lucky, I work in an office and can set my

schedule to where I can work at my desk, then get up every hour and

move around to another part of the dealership to dealer paperwork,

check on computer problems, etc.

N.

> I agree with Penny here. I would like nothing more than to be able

to work more and help support my family better. Problem is I can't. I

can't " suck it up " and keep working. The pain and fatigue are too

much. Like Penny, I can't stand long, can't sit long, can't work 2

days in a row without putting myself into a bad flare. I feel terrible

guilt as it is for not being able to help support myself, my children

and my hubby more, then to have people tell me that I could handle it

if I had to or if I pushed the pain aside.... I would if I could!

Before I did move to part-time work it had gotten so bad that I was

calling in 3 out of 5 days a week. Who is going to hire someone that

is sick that often? Someone again who can't stand, can't sit, can't

lift, can't concentrate, can't seem to stay awake, can't work an 8

hour shift........

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> Those of us that don't work are not staying home by choice, we are

staying home by necessity because we can't handle it. We can't

tolerate the health risks for a paycheck. There are a ton of us that

are unable to continue working full-time. I'm pretty sure that there

are more of us that can't work than can.

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> Alenna

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> I just can't agree that people have no choice rather than to keep

on working. I was rendered so incapable of work that I just had to

give up.. I can't stand or sit for more than a minute (standing) or

half an hour (sitting). I can't concentrate or remember what I am

meant to be doing. I can't sleep at night and cat nap in the day. No

employer would keep me on!

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I agree totaly.!! Plus if an employer knew what meds I was on he'd

be insane to hire me. Try taking 200 mg of Zoloft, 80 mg oxyicontin

three times a day along with 2 endocet, lasix, lipitor, zeita,

aggrenox, welbutrin 300 mg and 100 mg of doxipan at hs. not to

mention meds for my respiratory symptoms. I was fortunate to have

worked long enuf to have my 'points' or hours in so I could apply

for disability or I don't know where we'd have ended up. My check

makes the house payment and thats it. I've maxed out 5 credit cards

I'll never pay off. And the medical bills keep coming.

Just Me... K

> I agree with Penny here. I would like nothing more than to be able

to work more and help support my family better. Problem is I can't.

[Guest guest]

Alenna, I do wish that I could sit down and relax at times, but my

finances just will not let me. I get so tired sometimes I just want

to cry. But I feel if I quit working, what would my family do? I

speak for myself, I do not hold it against anyone who cannot work, I

wonder at times how I continue. But I am such a chronic worrier and

the biggest worry is finances. I think I would probably worry myself

into a stroke, or heart attack or who knows what else if I did just

stop because of the pain. So it is six of one and half a dozen of

the other, know what I mean?

Donna B

> I agree with Penny here. I would like nothing more than to be able

to work more and help support my family better. Problem is I can't. I

can't " suck it up " and keep working. The pain and fatigue are too

much. Like Penny, I can't stand long, can't sit long, can't work 2

days in a row without putting myself into a bad flare. I feel

terrible guilt as it is for not being able to help support myself, my

children and my hubby more, then to have people tell me that I could

handle it if I had to or if I pushed the pain aside.... I would if I

could! Before I did move to part-time work it had gotten so bad that

I was calling in 3 out of 5 days a week. Who is going to hire someone

that is sick that often? Someone again who can't stand, can't sit,

can't lift, can't concentrate, can't seem to stay awake, can't work

an 8 hour shift........

>

> Those of us that don't work are not staying home by choice, we are

staying home by necessity because we can't handle it. We can't

tolerate the health risks for a paycheck. There are a ton of us that

are unable to continue working full-time. I'm pretty sure that there

are more of us that can't work than can.

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> Alenna

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> Site Moderator for: fibromyalgia_support_group

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> Site Moderator and Co/Owner for: ncm_wisdom

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> " When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we

look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has

opened for us. "

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> Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

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> I just can't agree that people have no choice rather than to keep

on working. I was rendered so incapable of work that I just had to

give up.. I can't stand or sit for more than a minute (standing) or

half an hour (sitting). I can't concentrate or remember what I am

meant to be doing. I can't sleep at night and cat nap in the day.

No employer would keep me on!