Elf Sternberg

"Omaha can't drive because of her epilepsy; how do you explain to your boss that the healthy, robust, and beautiful woman you went out to lunch with yesterday is physically handicapped in ways people trapped in wheelchairs aren't?)."

Sigh. I can relate. If I'm very careful and make sure I don't push myself when I shouldn't, my seizures are very well controlled. But I can't get my boss (or the EEO for that matter) to agree that if I'm feeling as if I may have a seizure, it would be ok for me to take my own leave and stay at home, preferring that to having a seizure behind the wheel of the car.

However, since I *have* been so successful (no seizures in 10 years), EEO and management don't consider that I have a disability.

So, it's back to calling in sick with migraines and stomache cramps or whatever I can think of to say.

Makes me mad.