sarah1282 said:
Hi all just looking for some advice. 2 months ago I was diagnosed type 2 a week later told its actually type 1.5 and I will need to start insulin.
My question is my job is very stressful I work in the nhs as an administrator and my office doesn't have the nices thing people there I seem to do all the work I don't have time to eat and when I finally get to eat my sandwich I have to work while eating. Do you think I should ask my dr to sign me of sick so I can get my head round all this new diabetic stuff im learning (finding it difficult to deal with) and if so how long for.
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I also work for the NHS as a Med Sec and it's a very stressful job. There's never a minute to stop and draw breath during the day, typing reports and letters to target times, constant interruptions from other people in the office and with telephone calls mean my headphones are on and off all day long, my back is aching by 2pm and by 5pm sometimes I don't feel I have the energy to walk to my car and drive home. It's relentless, but the attitude of some managers is "If you can't do the job, you're out."
That's the reality of the NHS. And there's almost a stigma against people with medical conditions who work within the NHS - I don't feel there are many allowances made to help keep people with medical conditions in work, not unless your condition or disability is PHYSICAL AND OBVIOUS and you're the 'token disabled employee' for their statistics. Sadly, it's the same story within the NHS as anywhere else - disabilities that are not blatantly visible are deemed unimportant. I hear complaints from people about the unemployed and how they should get back to work, yet at the same time the workplace doesn't welcome and is openly hostile to those very people who, for whatever reason have been unemployed and are trying to get back into work AND cope with medical conditions.
So we have bodies like ATOS telling people they're fit to work even if they're crawling on hands and knees, and then we face employers who then expect 100% fitness to work and who don't really want us slowing their workforce down. Those who are working and in perfect health have absolutely NO idea of the difficulties some of us face every day just getting into work. I'm constantly asked what I did at the weekend, what I did last evening etc and my constant reply is "I crashed out and slept". All my energy goes into my job and I don't have any left over for weekends or evenings.
