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| The last day in our York home. |
There comes a time where you have to make decisions that are far more adult than you'd like, where a thread of circumstances starts to map out a path that you know in the long term is the best, but you don't want to walk it in the meantime. I have so often spoke about the challenges faced having lupus and working full time, having returned to work after having my daughter I began to face a whole new round of unfair expectations in my working life. And so began the merry-go-round of having no option but to reduce hours, responsibility and pay, be exhausted and pay extortionate amounts of childcare all to ensure we were £400 better off than me NOT going back to work.
There's only so much you can blame Lupus for, yes perhaps things would have been different if I was a fit and healthy Mum, but it was time to stop making excuses, there was no possible way I could work full time with a child and a challenging illness, it was a struggle working part time.
