I've not had that problem with work - I'm one of those horrible people who goes to work on the worst of days. And when I needed sixe weeks off after I was hit by the car last year, my bosses were great! I'd like to think that they would be that way if I had to miss work because of AS complications. But I'm also not going to test that theory out any time soon either.
My problem has been with friends. For the past few years, I've been so damned tired by the time I get home that I haven't the energy to phone anyone. It's not that I don't want to, I just haven't the energy to put into long phone calls. I didn't know that I had AS until the end of October this year, so I had no "good" reason for being this way. Now, I know why, and many of my old friends are so fed up with me that they don't return my calls. I'm not sure how to handle it, but I think I'm going to have to call each of them up, explain my situation and let them know that I think of them often, I just don't always have the energy to act on it.
I feel like I've been a bad friend to them for not making more effort to keep in touch. I have a feeling I have a lot of bridges to rebuild.
Inanna