SilentDreams
January 13th, 2006, 04:00 PM
Well I need some advice or at the very least confirmation that I'm not a jerk.
My mom is always in between jobs. Why? Because she's always sick. I'll give you a brief rundown of what happened at the last 4/5 jobs(I've almost started to lose count). She ends up getting sick and missing too many days and they let her go. I know you're thinking "What? They fired her for being sick? Thats so wrong!". But its not like that. She usually misses a day or more within the first month of a new job. Then she'll miss many more throughout the few months she works their. She's always "sick". I know you're wondering why I say it with quotations. Well, its just that I have a hard time believing her. She gets sick or hurt so often it seems impossible.
What I also have a hard time grasping is that for all the time she's sick, she's rarely bad enough to go to the hospital and when it is they give her a look over and a prescription and that's it. So I just have a hard time believing she's always telling the truth. I mean maybe she does truly get sick like that. But I have my own ideas why. I think she's like me and my sister when we used to miss school. We'd sometimes be sick and get out of school for a while and then we'd stress over having to go back. I don't know, it just feels weird when you have to go back after being gone for a long time. I think that's what happens to her. She misses and then gets so much anxiety over going back she fakes it. Well, perhaps not intentionally. I think perhaps she's a hypochondriac. But things are getting really bad. I never know how long she's going to keep a job these days. She's interviewing for jobs as I type this. I mean thankfully, I'll be getting my first job soon and my stepdad makes a living. But it just bugs me. I know that this may be something she can't control yet its hard sometimes not to get so frustrated and even mad. I wish I could talk to her about it. But whenever anyone implies she may not be as ill as she seems she gets so offended and hurt. So I don't know what to do. Any suggestions?
My mom is always in between jobs. Why? Because she's always sick. I'll give you a brief rundown of what happened at the last 4/5 jobs(I've almost started to lose count). She ends up getting sick and missing too many days and they let her go. I know you're thinking "What? They fired her for being sick? Thats so wrong!". But its not like that. She usually misses a day or more within the first month of a new job. Then she'll miss many more throughout the few months she works their. She's always "sick". I know you're wondering why I say it with quotations. Well, its just that I have a hard time believing her. She gets sick or hurt so often it seems impossible.
What I also have a hard time grasping is that for all the time she's sick, she's rarely bad enough to go to the hospital and when it is they give her a look over and a prescription and that's it. So I just have a hard time believing she's always telling the truth. I mean maybe she does truly get sick like that. But I have my own ideas why. I think she's like me and my sister when we used to miss school. We'd sometimes be sick and get out of school for a while and then we'd stress over having to go back. I don't know, it just feels weird when you have to go back after being gone for a long time. I think that's what happens to her. She misses and then gets so much anxiety over going back she fakes it. Well, perhaps not intentionally. I think perhaps she's a hypochondriac. But things are getting really bad. I never know how long she's going to keep a job these days. She's interviewing for jobs as I type this. I mean thankfully, I'll be getting my first job soon and my stepdad makes a living. But it just bugs me. I know that this may be something she can't control yet its hard sometimes not to get so frustrated and even mad. I wish I could talk to her about it. But whenever anyone implies she may not be as ill as she seems she gets so offended and hurt. So I don't know what to do. Any suggestions?