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Maggie, Go talk to a labor lawyer. That sounds almost exactly like what happened to me in the gift shop that I worked in. The next thing you should do is start applying for other jobs. The law does not require you to disclose your illness. If your boss is like mine was, the next move will be to make you so miserable that you quit. I don't know where you live, but in Wisconsin we have a Coalition for Advocacy (office in our state capital) with lawyers who help people who have been discriminated against. If you are interested in my case you may contact me offline at [log in to unmask] There may even be a version of my story in the archives. I don't recall for sure. This all happened to me in 2000. By the way, I was 52 and am now on Social security, medicare & recently medicaid. Good luck to you, Sue At 06:06 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I have just lost all of my health benefits from my employer, so I, too, >am advocating for some type of governmental health care provisions. I >was diagnosed with PD last September, tho I've had symptoms for a >couple of years. I'm single, and only a 1-income family--and I've just >been cut back to part-time work at my job as grocery store cashier, due >to some health-related warnings I've received (too slow at cash >register; not engaging enough with customers; not able to bag or carry >heavy groceries, etc.). > >I will have no option except to stop taking my PD medication, Sinemet, >sinceI can't afford to buy it without health care/prescription >coverage. I feel the government should make some provision for those >of us who don't quality for public assistance programs (I am not >eligible for medicaid and since there are no children in my household, >don't qualify for any type of assistance). I'm 52 years old, and it >will be 13 years before I qualify for Medicare. What am I to do for >those next 13 years for health care without some type of government >assistance? > >Maggie Mauney > > > >On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 01:56 PM, Meg Duggan wrote: > >>Hello - We would like to print a "form" letter in our newsletter that >>people >>can copy or clip out and send to their state and/or federal >>representatives. >>We would like to begin to advocate for some type of fall-back major >>medical >>coverage for people who have already been dxd with PD. We are in a >>farm >>state and more than one insurer has pulled out of the entire area, >>leaving >>long time customers uninsured; many unable to afford to go into the >>existing >>state pools. Can anyone give us some ideas for this letter? I am not >>really >>sure what I am asking for! Thanks, Meg >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >>mailto:[log in to unmask] >>In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn