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Previous job, Illness, OSHA (+/-) 

So, I need to talk about this, because I'm just now realizing (Two months after quitting) that I'm not chronically ill anymore.

When I was working at my last job, I had to call out midweek, every other week it seemed. I was in Extreme pain from my GI tract (The whole thing, one end to the other), bleeding internally, and my multiple systems stuff came to an undeniable state early in the year.

As time went on, and spring came, I got better, and then Worse when we had to close the bay doors and couldn't get constant fresh air.

I'd be suffering panic attacks so constantly that I no longer had a base state. I was in pain all the time, and couldn't digest food.
I'd be throwing up mucous every morning. I had a full blown ulcer, and I'd be going to the bathroom ten times a day, half the times were Emergencies.

I lost around 30lbs working there because I'd have to eat Trail Mix, I was so afraid of any other food making my life miserable. I was taking PPI medication twice a day and maybe put down four or five extra strength antacids on top of that. After a while, my stomach acid was so suppressed that I couldn't actually Digest food.

And my boss was Convinced that I was either Faking it or an Alcoholic. He told me he didn't believe in getting sick. He did Nothing when I'd brought up air quality concerns, and when the temps started getting up to Heat Exhaustion levels during the summer, he bought some Residential air conditioning units and had us build a 2x4 and plywood frame to mount them in one of the bay doors, and some $15 pedestal fans.

Now that I'm no longer exposed to that environment every day, I've managed to recover, and I'm not just suffering every waking moment. I can think about Food as something to look forward to, not something that I have to endure so I can keep living.

I'm still dealing with some of the psychological issues that came from being gaslit about how much I was suffering, and beating myself up over not being able to Work. But I haven't had a bad breakdown, or unstable emotions since I left. I haven't been inflamed, I haven't had any ulcer bleeding, and I haven't had the coughing fits I was suffering from.

He's getting OSHA and the BBB thrown at him. I'm gonna get one of those attack dog lawyers to make his life just as miserable as I was over 2018. I thought I had Cancer, or Crohns, or something I was gonna have to live with the rest of my life, and I wasn't able to see much point in Living, if I was just going to hurt that bad, All The Time.

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