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Chronic Pain members - Welcome, please introduce yourself
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Hi Angie - thank you for being a teacher most importantly, but I definitely understand how difficult is to put on a happy face and push through your job when you hurt. Have you considered disability or early retirement? Perhaps reducing your hours or taking on a different position? Just brain storming here. I ended up going on temporary disability which turned permanent and it was for the best. Pushing and crashing does not help chronic conditions.
Do you have any consideration of trying a pain rehab center like Mayo's?
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Thank you so much… I had the opportunity this year to go from full time kindergarten teacher to part time (3 day a week) intervention… the hope is to step away and I feel like that decision is coming very soon… I want to be able to step away and heal… I come back to Mayo on the 21st for the pre assessment appointments for the BeST program. I’ve started looking into the pain rehabilitative program as well, as they sound a little similar… it was truly encouraging to hear you share it was the best decision you had made. Thank you. I’m trying to get up my courage and protect my heart. I love helping my students…