Some people

[MichelleMC]

I am sorry for what many of you are going through regarding your jobs. As I've posted, a few at my workplace know I have epilepsy and one has a child with it and the other two have friends with it. I have not been treated differently at all from when they didn't know to when they did know. They still treat me nice, like they always have.
However, even though I have my husband's money as well and he's the main money maker of our household, I am still going to look for other work that I can make more money in, and that's something I hope you all and me too will find, and that is a legitimate, stress free work from home job. I suggest that you who are having trouble finding a job start from the internet, looking for different work from home jobs. They don't ask anything about medical conditions. However some of them sell juices and things to take to lose weight or energy pills. I always have asked my doctors before taking them. In fact I never have taken any, but I have gotten permission to take energy pills, but because I don't know what will happen regarding maybe changing medications to become pregnant, I'm not taking any of those as they are not for women who are pregnant.
Anyway, I think it would be a good idea to start from the internet looking for work from home. The way you can check if it's a good company is going to the better business bureau website. Click check out businesses and charities, then type in the name of the company and see if it has a satisfactory record or unsatisfactory record.

[MichelleMC]

The juices and energy pills, etc. are the products of some of these companies and that's why I brought that subject up.

[alivenwell]

I am sorry for what many of you are going through regarding your jobs. As I've posted, a few at my workplace know I have epilepsy and one has a child with it and the other two have friends with it. I have not been treated differently at all from when they didn't know to when they did know. They still treat me nice, like they always have.
However, even though I have my husband's money as well and he's the main money maker of our household, I am still going to look for other work that I can make more money in, and that's something I hope you all and me too will find, and that is a legitimate, stress free work from home job. I suggest that you who are having trouble finding a job start from the internet, looking for different work from home jobs. They don't ask anything about medical conditions. However some of them sell juices and things to take to lose weight or energy pills. I always have asked my doctors before taking them. In fact I never have taken any, but I have gotten permission to take energy pills, but because I don't know what will happen regarding maybe changing medications to become pregnant, I'm not taking any of those as they are not for women who are pregnant.
Anyway, I think it would be a good idea to start from the internet looking for work from home. The way you can check if it's a good company is going to the better business bureau website. Click check out businesses and charities, then type in the name of the company and see if it has a satisfactory record or unsatisfactory record.

Some people will buy just about anything. But, with a tight economy, they'll probably scale back on a few things.

As far as pregnancy, I took only phenobarb 'cause it was one of the safest known drugs at that time. Other meds have cleft lip, cleft palate...or better yet, 'unknown' side effects on a fetus.

I occasionally work from home. Sometimes it's so much quieter and easier to concentrate on a complex issue.

In spite of my complaints about my job, I'm better off when I'm busy. If they scale back on my assignments, I create my own or take online courses. I'm pursuing technical certification from online courses.

[darkmarkshark]

Our local ambulance service has a program where a single person can pay $30 a year and get free emergency ambulance rides, and it covers some of the common items the paramedics will use on you. Its slightly more for families/households

They've been trying to get me to sign up since my last ride. I think without any insurance or medicare it would have been just about $1,000.

You shouldn't have had such a runaround at your workplace - is this a typical office setting or something that could be highly dangerous, ie a place with heavy machinery/factory. If there is nothing that could be dangerous to someone who is only a little impaired, ask your neurologist to write a letter stating that medical attention should not be called for unless X, Y, and Z happen.

I tell my friends, they better not call an ambulance unless i've been convulsing for at least 5 minutes straight and am not responding to them. Though I imagine if they actually saw me have a generalized tonic clonic they'd be calling 911 in seconds


I do wonder if this situation was blown a little out of proportion. Could your coworker have been referring to the fact that you were willing and able to work but were given a forced vacation, rather than trying to make fun of your epilepsy?

[seizures4ever]

Lisa,

Ignorant comments can both hurt and make you madder than hell.

I'll never forget the day in college that a couple of girls in my class asked me what I made on my test (I didn't volunteer the info.). But when I told them an "A," they told me, "Well any of us could have made an A too if we got special privilages like you." I didn't even bother to tell them that I didn't use my ADA accommodations on that test. Let them have the seizures, I'll gladly give them up...I think they would realize that disability accommodations aren't about privilage, but rather, equal opportunity.

Regarding work,
I also had a fellow employee tell me she wished she got to "sleep on the job" like I did and how unfair it was. Please note: I was allowed, by my boss, to take a short nap after my seizures. She bragged that she never slept on the job in 14 years and "how times have changed."

There is ignorance and then there is cruelty. The ignorant person can be educated and possibly grow to understand. The cruel person knows the facts and has made the conscious decision to act the way he/she does.

Ignorance vs. arrogance.

Take care. -Julie