It's bad enough that 9 months I am still having stinging leakage but it has cost me job.
I had LIS with skin tag removal in Nov 2010 and then as complication of that I required Fistula surgery with also removal of polyp in Feb 2011. This was followed by exploratory op in April to review healing and leakage issue.
My employer has now announced redundancy and understandably sickness has been included in the scoring matrix. What makes it most galling is that technically I worked for the NHS for 27 years but my job was outsourced to a private firm who have only therefore effectively employed me for 12 months. My previous exemplary attendance record has been ignored but for the three absences for three ops I have been given 6 points which has dropped me over the threshold for those to go. And before anyone asks I am legally advised that it is tough luck because my condition logically would not be considered a disablement.
A sad tale and with hindsight I bizarrely wonder I should have gritted my teeth and just managed a chronic fissure. Now I am shortly to be unemployed in an economic downturn, the leakage and occasional spasms continent and my butt is permanently covered in barrier cream.