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Message: <blockquote data-quote="devexity" data-source="post: 533415" data-attributes="member: 39161">After all of your helpful feedback and a letter on Friday announcing that I'd developed background retinopathy, I went to the GP. He promptly signed me off for two weeks so I could sit at home and take the time to learn how my body works for the first time since I was diagnosed ten years ago.On the one hand, that's a very good thing. My head of department has been lovely. The assistant head in charge of training has been lovely. Everyone keeps saying that my health comes first. On the other hand, they also keep saying things like, 'Consider your priorities really seriously going forward' and 'Do you think you'll be able to be a teacher?' Or they begin sentences with phrases like, 'if you come back in a few weeks or months...'I suppose my question is this: did I just destroy my career? It feels like I may have done.</blockquote>

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