Cook recently diagnosed
I work in a kitchen and with my new diagnosis followed what I thought would be an extremely minor cold. What followed has been a 12 day journey of one of the most persistent sicknesses of my life. Even when I had COVID, flu or pneumonia they never lasted more then 7 days (I’m not counting the rsv cough, that shit lasted for months).
I can’t take any medications that I’m used to taking because almost all of them have some sort of mammal byproduct.
I think that just being in the kitchen and over the grill is making me sick, maybe I can’t feel it right away, but I’m more tired then I’ve ever been at the end of the day in the weeks before the diagnosis.
I don’t know what to do and I’m loathe to bring it up to my boss or anyone else at my job, because I need this job and its benefits