Back to work

[chris-e]

Well i am back to work Monday after 3 weeks off due to my diagnosis of type 2.I'm not sure if i'll be ok or not. I am having to use my reading glasses to see normally and i can not actually see to read books or even this screen as i'm typing cos my vision is so blurred, thankfully ive read threads on here and learnt that this will settle as my sugars stabilize.If my visions too bad i'll just have to come home again.3 weeks off seems a long time to me and i was wondering how long others had off work when they were 1st diagnosed.

 

[trophywench]

I'm T1, but near enough 2 months ! Terribly bored, couldn't even watch the 1972 Olympics on the telly - the only one I haven't been glued to since I was about 10 !

 

[Blythespirit]

I was diagnosed in November 2003 with levels similar to yours and didn't have any time off at all. It wasn't easy but as I'm self employed I couldn't afford to have time off so close to Christmas. I've never had a single day off work due to my diabetes. I guess I've been quite lucky.....or daft! XXXXX

 

[Mark T]

Zero days! But I picked mine up fairly early it seems and before any form of hospital trip was needed.

 

[Copepod]

Good luck with your return to work. Do try changing brightness of screen, as this might make it easier to use, and take breaks from screen / reading work to look out window.

 

[lucy123]

I didn't have time off either - GP didn't even suggest it - but we are all different.🙂

 

[chris-e]

Blimey, i'm beginning to feel a right wimp for having 3 weeks off, but i felt so ill it was impossible, likes been said though we are all affected differently.

 

[Northerner]

Blimey, i'm beginning to feel a right wimp for having 3 weeks off, but i felt so ill it was impossible, likes been said though we are all affected differently.

I was in hospital for 8 days and if I had been working they would have signed me off for 3 months because they thought I'd also had a heart attack, so 3 weeks is no time at all - as you say, it depends on what you do and how you were at diagnosis and after. My eyesight also was bad for about 6 weeks - had to buy a magnifying glass to go with my reading glasses and zoom my PC screen up to 250%!

 

[lucy123]

Not at all - as was said - it affects everyone differently - you did what was right for you🙂

 

[Robster65]

I had a fortnight off school if I remember right but I was 13 at the time 🙄

Rob

 

[Ellie Jones]

I wasn't working when I was diagnosed I was a mum to 1 4 year old, and then told I was diabetic and pregnant in the same phone call..

Spent 3 weeks in hospital getting my head around injecting etc... Not sure why I spent so long in hospital though it was sort of the done thing at the time😱

When my husband was diagnosed, he just got home from leave as he was in the RAF, mid way through a tour of Northen Ireland... That was the May, he didn't got back to his unit after leaving hospital he had a couple weeks leave before so that he could decide what to do, stay in the RAF to finishes his time behind a desk or have a medical discharge from the RAF, he chose medical discharge so had to go to one of the RAF hospital up north while his discharge was being sorted.. He left the RAF in the september...

But we are both T1 diabetics..

 

[SacredHeart]

I was in hospital for 5 days whilst they got me out of DKA, but I was back to work the morning after I got out.

 

[trophywench]

Well I'd have been back the next week or so, had it not been for the fact I couldn't see to do my job !