🎁 What you get, free
⏱️ Ten minutes instead of three weeks of dread. The letter is already written. You fill in four blanks and press send.
🔒 Your diagnosis stays yours. The wording describes what you can't reliably do, not what you have — so nobody gets your medical history as the price of a chair.
📅 A record that outlives your manager. A dated written request survives reorganisations, new bosses and "I don't remember agreeing to that."
✅ A request people can actually say yes to. Vague asks get vague answers. This one is specific enough to be approved on the spot.
🇺🇸🇬🇧 The right words for your country. Two complete versions — accommodations for the US, reasonable adjustments for the UK. Using the correct term is what gets your request into the right process.
🗣️ Why asking out loud rarely works
You mention it in a corridor. Your manager nods. Nothing changes — and six months later there's a new manager who has never heard of it.
Writing it down changes the outcome, not just the paperwork. It lands in a real process. It forces the specific ask. And you get to write it once, calmly, instead of explaining a fluctuating illness out loud while exhausted.
⚠️ The mistake that costs people the yes
They describe the diagnosis instead of the limitation.
It feels like the honest thing to do. In practice it moves the conversation onto your medical history — where you keep justifying yourself — instead of onto the adjustment, where someone can simply approve it.
The template hands you the wording that works:
💬 Standing for extended periods causes symptoms that make it unsafe for me to continue the task.
💬 Symptoms are most severe in the first two hours after waking, which affects the accuracy of work done early in the day.
In most situations you are not required to name your condition at all. If you decide to, that's your call — later, and on your terms.
👤 Who it's for
Anyone working with a long-term health condition who needs something to change and doesn't know how to ask. Written with POTS, hypermobile EDS and MCAS in mind — but nothing in it is condition-specific, so it works for any fluctuating illness.
📬 Send me the free template
It arrives in your inbox straight away as an editable Word document. Over the following weeks I'll also send you the wording for the hardest line, what to do when nobody replies, and how to plan around what a working day actually costs you.
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