Tina my advice would be [b]Don't[/b]. If you are desperate for money you may not have a choice, but if you can trim down your living costs then just cocentrate on getting better.
It's my husband that has mm I signed off work with stress when he was first diagnosed as he was so ill then. After an exemplary record of attendance and decades of working with the same charitable organisation. They weren't at all charitable when I sent in my certificate and my manager phoned me at home almost daily to ask when I would be returning to work. I should have sued them for harrasment!
I ended up taking early retirement and have never regretted being at home with Stephen. We both enjoy the same things (mostly:-( ) and when he is watching the wretched cricket or some other silly thing depicting grown men chasing after a ball I am quite happy to potter about in the garden, read a book, take myself off somewhere etc.
I agree with everything that Dai and Tom have said and as a person that does not(as far as I know) have a life shortening illness I still believe that life is too bloody short to not get the most out of it.
Good luck with your decision Gill xx
