2003-04-01 - 12:10 a.m.
Big desition
Ok .. i have been thinking about this for a little while now and i have finally come to the conclution that i need to go back to work!! Im going to phone access to work this week and start the ball rolling.
I am not going to do more than 10 hours a week (that means i can earn extra money with out loosing my benefits) mainly cos im just not awake enough yet.
I would really like to do some work with a charity for disabled people, not sure what i could do, but im NOT going to work in Tesco or anything like that!!
Its kinda scary going back to work, but im determained to do it .. im going to need a lot more help than i have done in the past, my dyslexia effects me a lot more now with the chronic fatuige, my pain levels will be a factor & my consentration.
Realisticly im going to need a PA with me to start off with .. just to make sure im reading things ok & to help me with my spelling and so on .. but im hoping in the end i wont need any one at all.
Access to work are really good too, they supply you with anything you need to enable a disabled person to go back to work. My mum's Ex got �25,000 .. he is a sienctist and started getting floaters in his eyes .. he could no longer see samples properly though a microscope so they brought him this new fangled thing that made it come up on a telly screen!! Im hoping that they will help me out with a car so i can get too and from work independently .. we shall see!
If any of you have any experance of working very part time or going back to work after a long time off sick ... would you like to get in touch?? Also, any ideas of good jobs i could do that wouldne kill me would be nice too!! Mail me!
I sooo cant wait to get back to work .. people dont realize what a social life work brings to you .. when people ask how i know so many people now, its all though work. You meet like minded people most of who you get on well with. It gives you a good sence of achevment too .. not every one will agree with this, but when you have been told all your life that your never going to make much of your self, or that your too thick to go to work at all .. you get a buzz every day knowing that your proving them wrong.
The good thing about this is that if i cant cope after 3 months i can just stop again, there isnt any 'need' as such for me to work .. other than my mental health!!
So, i will keep you up to date on whats going on with work .. wish me luck!!
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