Hi Berta,
you are contending with a lot and I imagine you are an incredibly strong person to be able to tackle and find solutions to your health problem.
the fact that you fall off the waggon and get back on with GF days is commendable
about your boss. I understand your struggle. I had a boss who served me with a letter of warning when I was heavily pregnant. She gave it to me before the holidays with a smile, knowing full well that that letter would lead to stress and tears on my part. As she had predicted, I did have many tears and sleepless nights over it fearing I would not get through the year ( I was new there)
she had made up some lies on the letter regarding my not notifying the workplace of maternity appointments in good time. I contested that with the help of my union and she had to eventually retract parts of the letter she’d written.
Though I still had the horrible memories of the stress and unfairness of being dragged through the mud at work (horrible meetings and negative questions and comments to put me down) my work was never under question, it was all about my maternity appointments and my sickness affecting my puntuality.
luckily for me, I discovered a few days ago that she has gone!!!! Just left out of the blue.
So now I am going back to work without the cloud that once followed me around. I was apprehensive about the treatment I’d received from her (she had ways of getting back at people she disliked) her not being there means that other senior members of staff Can put it past them and start afresh with me post maternity time out.