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If your work is, or will likely be, affected by your illness, educate
your boss about your condition. Do this soon.
You may need their support later when more problems may arise, and it
will be easier to educate them while you are still relatively
productive and “credible”.
Understand that you might have to make some severe changes: a change of
job, or perhaps an involuntary loss of your job and a shift to
disability benefits.
Beware of the trap of losing important disability benefits if you
switch to part time work. Many HCV patients whose health was
spiraling downwards had switched to part-time work to preserve their
place with their employer. Later, when their health deteriorated even
more and they needed to seek disability benefits, they found out too
late that those benefits for a part-time employee did not include a
livable income, whereas if they had gone straight from full-time to
disability, the disability payments were much more livable. Be
careful.
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