You are very unlikely to wake up suddenly and be all better - you've been sick so long already that even if you felt suddenly better . . .
1 - you're still pg, and even normal pg gals are very exhausted
2 - you've been very ill for a long time, and serious illness takes time to recover from. You don't wake up one morning to find that the HG is gone, and you are full of energy and vitality. It just doesn't happen that way.
You need to look for and concentrate on small gains, small accomplishments. ie:
Are you able to drink more (and have it stay down) compared to yesterday/last week/last month?
Are you able to brush your teeth w/o gagging?
Are you able to shower on your own?
Can you watch a food commercial w/o getting nauseated?
Can you brush your hair - do you have enough energy to do that on your own?
Ask yourself these same questions in a week, in a month. Slowly, slowly, bit by bit, you will see improvement. If you're not able to care for yourself day to day, there's no way you can work. Catch up on picture sorting, read some books you've been putting off, get really involved in this forum, baby shop online, etc. There ARE things to do when you're waiting so long, so miserably to cook this baby.
You asked if anyone knew of any risks of working w/ HG. Yeah, I do. I've watched women for three years fight HG, after experiencing 2 HG pgs of my own. Time and again, working women plunge down the hole of HG hell faster than non-working women, suffer more stress from co-workers/bosses/etc. than women who are home facing the worst of HG, and push themselves to recover faster and resume life faster - reducing amounts of sleep, increasing amounts of stress, and fighting far worse nausea, and sometimes nausea, not to mention reduced immunity to disease. HG is a balancing act. If you don't get enough sleep, if you get a cold virus, if you get a UTI, or eat too late at night, it can rear it's ugly head of relapse - and that doesn't even take on what work does.
Women determined to go back to work too early relapse faster than just about anyone besides those who are testing to see if their drugs really work (or are forced to wean fast - both cold turkey - not a good idea), or who suddenly fall very will with other ailments.
You have to decide if your health, and that of your child is more important than a job. I know you're stir crazy - there are other ways to keep your mind from going too nutty!
HuGS, and see you in the 2nd trimester folder,
Andy
Mom to Aaron 14 (HG), Anna 11 (HG), Adam 8 (adopted), Andrew 8 (adopted), fostering a newborn . . .