I know Liz and if it was not for working for a university and banking my vacation time and sick time we would have lost our home when I crashed. I had banked almost 480 hours of vacation time and more then that in sick time. I was lucky that we had our own disability program. So I was one of the lucky ones when it comes to stuff like that. Since I crashed the university has changed a lot of their policy's but I am covered.

My boss is single and did not have family close by so when she got sick or had to have out patient surgery it was me who took her picked her up and checked up on her. I still check I up on her.

But she also saved her vacation time and sick time in case she ever got really sick. When I crashed lord it scared my work because I had worked with the same people for almost 20 years it sacred my family and my husband. He looked at me and told me he thought he was going to have to tell my kids I was gone. I did a year of chemo and tried to go back to work 3 times that year. Plus my daughter was on a competition cheer team and that year their nationals was in Florida. I live in California. I thought I would die but I went and did what I had to do.

Just take care and rest when you can and please keep in touch.

Sending you healing vibes and hugs