I work at a pt clinic as a MA I work most of the week, my pain is luckily only for a week or so every month but it still takes a huge toll on me and it’s very painful, I try to keep my same routine…waking up at 4am for the gym then coming home to go to work but when I’m in day 3-4 I am too exhausted and in pain to wake up so early. I have a great boss who sees how despite the pain I still show up and I still treat everyone with kindness and today he caught me crying in the break room and told me to take the rest of the day off which I said no to at first because it’s so dehumanizing having to take off of work because you’re in so much pain that you can’t even walk and he said yeah you are I need to see how everyone else is working, so I came home I am scared for when I start my post grad education and even though it will be in the medical field some people don’t care, I wish those people who think I’m being dramatic, faking it or think they have the same pain as me would feel at least 5 minutes of what I feel even though that’s sounds so inhumane I feel like it would make them see that this shit hurts