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Posting from my throwaway account because I would rather no one I know in real life know what’s going on. I broke my leg last May and ended up using percosets from a friend to help the injury. In September, I accidentally refractured it. I was doing about 20mgs every. I have gotten myself down to 10mgs. I am trying to cold turkey now and having the hardest time. By day two, mentally I’m going nuts because I know I can just call my friend and drive 10mins and feel better. Ten years ago, I was in pain management and went cold turkey from 10mgs of methadone a day. Which SUCKED, but I did it. I don’t know why I’m having so much trouble with percosets. I have tried all the different types of vitamins and herbs. I have atavin and Xanax I can take, but it doesn’t help. By day two I am just miserable and really having trouble pushing through. Anyone have any tips for me? I was thinking of using QuickMD to get a suboxone script to help me. I have so many things to do and people to take care of I cannot take a week off to lay in bed. I know 10mgs is barely anything. I don’t know why it’s so hard.

Hello, I’m posting from my throwaway account just in case. I’ve been with my nanny family for 9 years. I have always said they are my unicorn family. The kids are amazing and both parents are great. The first 5 years I had a contract that gave me a certain number of sick days, vacation days, and 3% of my salary put into my retirement account. The parents got divorced and I started working more for MB, than DB. She never made another contract, which wasn’t an issue for me before but now I’m starting to think it is. She has a very important job and I never ever call out unless it’s a dire emergency. In the last 4 years, I’ve only called out for my parents dying and my daughter getting emergency surgery. I’ve also been extremely flexible, changing my schedule whenever needed to fit her work schedule. I’ve been part time for about 2 years now. She randomly sprung on me a couple weeks ago I would need to go to full-time. I am not as flexible as I was years ago. I now care for my disabled brother who requires 24/7 care and she knows this. So adding two more days to my schedule is really difficult for me. It means I have to pay a caregiver to cover those days (for $33 an hour) while only making $25. She seems irritated that I’m not able to change my schedule last minute. Also, no money has been put in my retirement account since MB and DB divorced. Today is the first day I have been pretty irritated with this job and debating if I should stay. Last night I had to put my cat down I’ve had since I was a little girl. She was 23 years old. I texted MB last night to let her know and see if I could take the day off since I was just needed for 2 hours for school drop off this morning. Her boyfriend is here. I hate working with him, he makes me uncomfortable. I’ve told her this. I asked if I could take the day off since he will be here to take the kids to school because I have not slept at all yet and I’m heartbroken. Also to mention, she the boyfriend is here he completely disrupts the routine we have had for a decade, takes jobs over I do, and tells me what to do (ex. NK needs to leave for school by 8am like I haven’t been doing this since before he was in the picture, I know what I’m doing). I don’t know if I’m just tired and being emotional today or if I’m being taken advantage of. I love my NK and I do really love MB too. She is a great person. I just feel like i am never able to take sick time. And then when I show up sick she is upset! And there’s a constant issue of me showing up and NK kids being sick without me knowing. Which then I get sick and get my family sick and then of course can’t call out. Am I overreacting?