I need to vent. I’m a college adjunct. Got offered extra work next semester. I want to take it. I need the money. But I’d have hardly any time to prepare for it, and I know I’d need to spend a good deal of time reviewing the material on top of the other classes I already have.

But I got a colonoscopy yesterday. Doctor said I might get my medication changed, might need another one soon, might need something else done. I won’t know for another two weeks which isn’t soon enough for me to know if I think I can take on the extra workload or not.

Even if I’m just getting my medication changed, the extra work would make my days really long.. which complicates my food situation.

I don’t even know if I could handle a full-time job (I want to look for work elsewhere because I’m tired of making such shitty pay, but I have to stay where I am now because of the insurance). And I don’t even have Crohn’s as bad as so many people on here do. I just can’t handle stress... is there anyone with Crohn’s that doesn’t have anxiety/depression issues? But I want to be able to get a nice full time low stress office job that pays better but I don’t even know how to start looking.

I’m probably not going to take the extra work. Probably going to be kicking myself later when I see my paycheck, and start feeling a bit better and like I can do more things. Same thing happened a few years ago when I contracted C. Diff. Turned down extra work, then I was feeling better in 4 weeks and felt I could’ve handled it.