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How to navigate workplace expectations during pain recovery

My boss keeps asking when I'll be 'back to normal' after my surgery but I'm starting to think this is my normal now and I don't know how to tell him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional environments demand certainty about healing timelines that the body cannot guarantee.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Pain — acute and chronic management?”

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