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Hey Fellow Suffers
Hoping someone can give me some advice. Am having a nightmare trying to get back to working after having to take a couple of years out due to diabetic complications. Now nobody will touch me with a barge pole and have already tapped up my network but keen to try something new and ideally less stressful...I do feel genuine sympathy and empathy for mothers trying to resurrect their careers having taken time out. Wow there really is a stigma and discrimination out there. I used to be a Resourcing Manager for the corporate banks and consultancies in the City so have been living on LinkedIn but not joy.
I had incredibly severe stomach problems for 4 years and even though I went to 5 different GPs everyone missed it. Finally got a referral to the hospital and had a colonoscopy which confirmed IBD / Colitis but nobody at my GPs read the letter from the consultant, for 3 years (20 GP appointments) and I didn't have a clue as at the time I was told everything was clear and fine. It was only on the biopsy , and the hospital "forgot" to copy me in on the letter.......
Had to get referred again to the hospital for them to say there was a confirmed diagnosis on file.....aaaarrrrhhhhh.....but it still took another 6 months, 4 appointments and 3 different GPs to finally get the prescription for steroids.....4 months treatment and all fixed. So now it's urgent to get back to work before I lose my flat (already lost my girlfriend, my job, my career, my social life)....so would be great to find something I can still do and be a productive member of society
Any ideas around jobs, companies, strategies would be great and very much appreciated
Cheers
James
Hoping someone can give me some advice. Am having a nightmare trying to get back to working after having to take a couple of years out due to diabetic complications. Now nobody will touch me with a barge pole and have already tapped up my network but keen to try something new and ideally less stressful...I do feel genuine sympathy and empathy for mothers trying to resurrect their careers having taken time out. Wow there really is a stigma and discrimination out there. I used to be a Resourcing Manager for the corporate banks and consultancies in the City so have been living on LinkedIn but not joy.
I had incredibly severe stomach problems for 4 years and even though I went to 5 different GPs everyone missed it. Finally got a referral to the hospital and had a colonoscopy which confirmed IBD / Colitis but nobody at my GPs read the letter from the consultant, for 3 years (20 GP appointments) and I didn't have a clue as at the time I was told everything was clear and fine. It was only on the biopsy , and the hospital "forgot" to copy me in on the letter.......
Had to get referred again to the hospital for them to say there was a confirmed diagnosis on file.....aaaarrrrhhhhh.....but it still took another 6 months, 4 appointments and 3 different GPs to finally get the prescription for steroids.....4 months treatment and all fixed. So now it's urgent to get back to work before I lose my flat (already lost my girlfriend, my job, my career, my social life)....so would be great to find something I can still do and be a productive member of society
Any ideas around jobs, companies, strategies would be great and very much appreciated
Cheers
James