I’m tired of my body. It’s a stupid piece of shit. In the past 24 months it has: [ul][li]Developed diabetes. []Has become so anemic my doctor considered a freakin’ transfusion.[]Ruptured an ACL[]Started bleeding and has refused to stop, even after 10 days of hormones []Developed hypertensionAnd now my doctor calls me to tell me what else is new with me: Asymptomatic Proteinuria[/ul][/li]Flimsy piece of shit body.
Somebody call me a waaaahmbulance.
I’m so sorry, Biggirl. If we could share bodies, I’d let you have half of mine. You could have my good side.
What is proteinuria and how does it manifest itself?
There are no symptoms. It’s just protein present in the urine. It’s a sign that I may have something unpleasant going on with my kidneys.
And if I may go on with my whining. . .
My boss is not pleased about all these days off I’ve been taking off. I have been warned that I cannot have any more “unpaid hours”. So fine, pay me when I’m not in if that’s the way you feel. He’s upset that my ACL injury had me out for a month, even though my two cases were finished ahead of schedule. Because I can’t do work when I’m not there.
Well Mr. Bossman, I won’t be able to do any work if I’m dead. I told him he needs to do what he needs to do and I need to do what I need to do. Hopefully, both our needs can be met. This did nothing for my blood pressure.
Well the proteinurea could be either a cause or a symptom of the hypertension. I have proteinurea from scarring of my kidneys and it has in turn given me high bloodpressure and high cholesterol. I take univasc for my blood pressure and the univasc helps protect my kidneys from further scarring thus I still have my own two kidneys! Yay me 
Also hypertension can constrict the arteries resulting in the proteinurea. You need a good nephrologist to sort out what’s what but there are some amazing things they can do these days. Especially with the diabetes you don’t want to let this go. (Not that I need to tell you that)
Sheesh, your boss needs to lighten up, it is unpaid time off after all! And you are right… you will miss far more work when you are dead. I hope things turn around for you soon and you feel better.
Has your boss never heard of the Family and Medical Leave Act, or is your employer too small to qualify?
Sheesh, would he rather have you keel over in the office? I imagine you are rather more productive when you’re healthy.
Just thought I’d share a sad, but related story: a few years ago, I busted my leg really badly and ended up on crutches for almost a year. After much rehab, I was finally ready to graduate to a cane, and stopped on the way home to buy one at Walgreen’s. Got home, very sore and achy and feeling about 150 years old, popped my anti-inflammatories, put on an ice pack, and was immediately the recipient of a telemarketing call…from a frickin’ **cemetery![/]b trying to interest me in “pre-need planning.”
Pre-need, OK, but I was 28 years old! The poor telemarketer was mortified (no pun in tended).
I’m with you, Biggirl.
I was always healthy as a horse, until the last six months. In that span of time, the following things have gone wrong with me:
–Partially hospitalized for one month with major depression (and out of work on disability leave for two months)
–Stress-induced cold sore outbreak that left me with dozens of painful sores all over my lips and tongue
–Persistent burning and redness in my eyes, of unknown cause
–Persistent urinary tract infection that took three courses of antibiotics to kill
–Developed carpal tunnel syndrome in my dominant hand
–A menstrual period that has now lasted a good 4 weeks (and counting)
And, today, I was diagnosed with pneumonia. No wonder I’ve been exhausted and coughing for the last month!
To top it all off, the H.R. director called me today to schedule a “get-together” to discuss my work load and hours. If I fall below 30 hours of work per week, I will lose my medical insurance benefits, and right now, with all the sick days I have had to take for the pneumonia, I’ve done exactly that. So I’m probably up Shit Creek without a paddle.
And just how dumb is this whole situation? The whole reason I’m not up to 30 hours per week is because I’m SICK. I NEED my medical insurance benefits right now! And the firm should want me to keep them and use them, so that I’ll get better and come back to work and be the billing machine I was a mere 9 months ago.
I don’t even want a new body. I just want enough time to recuperate so that the body I have can get healthy again. But with all this crap about not falling below 30 hours per week, it’s just not happening.