Hi all, I apologize in advance for formatting and if it doesn't make sense, I am on mobile and very emotional right now. Just diagnosed this week. If it matters, I am in my early 30s and have no previous major medical conditions.

Background- About a month ago, I relocated a few states over and subsequently began the job search. I received an offer and verbally accepted it. I was iffy in the beginning because it would be a pay cut, the high cost of insurance and unknown coverage (it's a small insurance company). I'm about halfway through onboarding (completed drug test, physical, and background/references).

I have a neuro for migraines and neuropathy for the past 8 years. I saw them for a follow-up in March as recommended by my spine doctor, as I was having numbness on left half of my body (shoulder to bottom of foot), which the physiatrist felt was not consistent with the disc degeneration shown on the MRI of my thoracic spine, which was performed in February. Of course I wanted answers but have been to many doctors just for there to be no findings. I stopped worrying for the most part. "psychosomatic consideration" per the physiatrist. So all this was sort of "same sh* different day" for me.

Even with my neuro, it was always like "well this is caused by your neuropathy" (double blurred vision, numbness and tingling, Phantom pains on random parts of my body, fatigue and clumsiness that has been more apparent over the last two years). MS was never considered or even mentioned by them. In fact, during my visit, I was in tears, having extreme anxiety, thinking about what my dad said to me before the visit "your doc should consider MS, not to scare you".

Neuro said no no don't worry this is a flare up of your neuropathy from covid, "you don't have MS." They wrote me the Scripts for the MRIs of the brain and the C spine to ease my mind.

Anyway...

Fast forward to this Tuesday and I was diagnosed with MS (honestly wasn't expecting much to come out of the MRIs, was really for an updated brain scan and a rule OUT of MS, now I am so glad that I spoke up).

The job I am currently at (in original state) has great health insurance, I have been there for three and a half years. it is a bit of a commute when I do need to go in, but per the union, we have an agreement where we are 90% teleworking. The commute is truly the only downside. The new job is 10 minutes from my new house and requires physically being in the office 40 hours a week. It is a managerial position so it does require a presence and I will not be afforded the amount of grace and flexibility due to the nature of the job (team leader, need to provide 24/7/365 coverage).

Prior to the diagnosis, I was considering both jobs and about 60/40 on staying with my current employer, but now I think that I need to remain with the state for the health benefits and for the flexibility that I am afforded, both officially (FMLA) and unofficially (Being able to call out without putting the director DIRECTOR out, scrambling to find a coverage plan etc).

Anyway, I'm wondering what others think.. this is super Fresh to me obviously and was unexpected. What would you do?

Thank you again