I can't put my own pants, socks or shoes on most morning and have to have help from my husband. Personally, I think that is a major life activity, but maybe pants are overrated =) I also found out yesterday that in addition to all of my other back issues, I have a herniated disc and degenerative disc disease in my lumbar spine. It makes me glad I refused to bend this weekend as I could cause further herniation any time I do. I have had the fibro my whole life and the OA for years, and I have worked through a lot of pain and it doesn't bother me, but the nerve pain from my back is just intense, like nothing I have ever had before.
As it turns out, my boss had decided that I was not going to do this particular task ever anymore, that they would reallocate, instead of giving me a stool. My coworkers are probably rightly pissed off about it, I am little pissed off about it, but they get to decide what the accommodation is, so it's out of my hands I guess, because not doing it does work. I would go find a new job, but my plan is to move within the next year and as it takes 6 months to train at a new place for my job, I feel like it would be fairly awful of me to do that to a new employer - my current job knows I am leaving. Additionally, the job I am at now is severely short on staff - if I were to leave too, most everyone would be forced to work weekends, overnights and double shifts. And they don't have anyone new starting until April, and it will then take 4-6 months to train those people before they can be fully functional in the position. So I kind of feel like anything I can do for them now would be good. After we move, if I work at all, it will probably only be 1 or 2 days a week.
Thanks for all of the advice.
