There are many stories that echo Amber's and Alex's — struggles to find jobs, difficulties with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the desire to continue serving the community.
They were unwilling to be cowed or bullied, even if the price for their defiance was daily harassment, loss of jobs, difficulties for their spouses and children, or, most ominously, imprisonment in the Gulag.
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Job difficulty dropped precipitously during the first year on ART.
During the 3 months prior to ART initiation, job difficulty was reported among 56% of respondents.
Fibromyalgia severity was assessed with the FIQ. 25 26 FIQ is composed of 10 subscales: physical impairment, overall well-being, work missed, job difficulty, pain, fatigue, morning tiredness, stiffness, anxiety and depression.
The FIQ is a 10-item validated scale that assesses physical functioning, pain, depression, anxiety, fatigue, morning tiredness, stiffness, job difficulty and overall well-being; it has demonstrated reliability and validity [ 22].
The Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire a 10-item instrument that measures difficulties with activities of daily living and symptoms of pain, fatigue, morning tiredness, stiffness, job difficulty, depression and anxiety along with amount of work missed and overall well-being during the past week [ 42].
It is a self-administered questionnaire that measures multiple domains of fibromyalgia symptoms and functional impairment, and it contains 20 questions that assess the following areas: physical functioning, overall well-being in the previous week, days of work missed, and symptoms of pain, fatigue, morning tiredness, stiffness, job difficulty, anxiety, and depression.
Although she passed a Metropolitan Transportation Authority exam and was offered a job, difficulties finding care for Ryan meant that she had to pass it up.
