Well the news is in....
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Take care.
Regards, Satips.:rose:
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Wish you well and best of luck. :rose: You are fortunate to have such a group of co-workers that would donate their own holiday time to give you 27 days. Hopefully your company also 'matched' some of the donations to show their support as well.
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
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Wish you well and best of luck. :rose: You are fortunate to have such a group of co-workers that would donate their own holiday time to give you 27 days. Hopefully your company also 'matched' some of the donations to show their support as well.
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
Chris Meech wrote:
Hopefully your company also 'matched' some of the donations to show their support as well.
From what I just heard in email, 20 days came from coworkers, 7 days came from the company with a note saying that if it's needed they will be willing to extend that another 7 days.
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." Bill Gates
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Best of luck, and I hope everything comes out ok at the end. erm, did I just say that??? :-O Marc
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
I have a friend that is battling Chron's disease, and has gone through several operations where similar things have been done, but with his large intestine. Â Â Having watched him go through all that and the recovery required, I can only hope you the best of luck... Â Â Peace! -- modified at 9:47 Friday 22nd June, 2007 Â Â A
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
I hope the surgery is a success and the recovery a time for many good things to happen. Sometimes we need that kind of space so maybe it's not all bad. Well done to your company and co-workers for getting the holiday donation sorted out. That's a really good scheme. I hardly ever use up my holiday and it would be great to be able to donate spare days to someone in need.
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Good luck man.
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
All these kind words are the reason I have stayed an active member of this community, this is a great community and I appreciate all the kind words.
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Best of luck. Take care
Regards, Sylvester G sylvester_g_m@yahoo.com
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account
That was really nice of your colleagues. However, don't you get sick pay?
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid
That sound weird to me. Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick? Where the hell is that place? :~
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid
That sound weird to me. Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick? Where the hell is that place? :~
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Corinna John wrote:
Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick?
That seems weird to me also. I don't like taking sick days, but I know that if I am sick and can't work I don't have the additional worry about how to pay my mortgage at the end of the month. I think that additional stress would make people worse not better.
Corinna John wrote:
Where the hell is that place?
According to his profile it is the United States.
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Good luck and I hope you have a speedy recovery.
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account
That was really nice of your colleagues. However, don't you get sick pay?
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
However, don't you get sick pay
Yeah, but this has been going on sice 09MAR and I have used up all but 2 days vacation and 4 hours sick time. I have missed a total of 7 weeks so far this month with this (not to mention this will be the 2nd surgery this year).
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch