I've been out of work and on PWD since the beginning of the year, thanks to a five-week stay in the hospital (my second admission in the three months I was at my most recent job). I'd like to get off disability and get a job, but doing what? I don't think I could get a job now doing what I was doing before, nor would I want to (the stress contributed to my illness). I was thinking about going to school to be a medical laboratory assistant. I had pretty much decided to apply to the six-month medical laboratory assistant program at VCC... until I realized this job would require me to touch cotton balls all day. It seems silly to say that I think I would be fine jabbing people with needles to collect their blood, but that I couldn't touch cotton balls. Not really sure what to do now.