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Going back to work tomorrow.. Anxiety level high!

abwattsabwatts member
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After 6 weeks I'm going back to work tomorrow. I will take the remainder of my FMLA when they are released (7 weeks). This most likely will be mid April which would allow me to be off until summer (I'm a teacher)
I KNOW this is not a terrible situation and I've been fortunate to have this time off, and that I'll get the time off when they come home... BUT I don't want too!!!

I'm going to be up at the hospital at 5 am/pm before and after work, and I just keep reminding myself it's temporary....and that in the weekends you won't be able to tear us away from the hospital... But I still feel like I'm going to
Go insane

Any tips to get through the work day without losing your mind until you can see them again??
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Re: Going back to work tomorrow.. Anxiety level high!

  • ashleymarie512ashleymarie512 member
    I also went back to work while LO was in the hospital. It was so hard, but I kept focusing on the time I would have with her once she came home. Luckily I work about five blocks from the hospital and was able to go right after work. My boss was amazingly supportive and (unofficially) let me take my computer to work and work from LOs room, which was super helpful during consults, tests, transfusions and when she started eating from a bottle.

    It's hard at first, but I quickly started operating on auto pilot and we got through. Good luck!!!
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  • Missi576Missi576 member
    It gets easier.  I can only go up late at night.  We are down to one car, my husband works, and I virtually school the older girls.  Due to family living a long way away, I have noone for the 10 and 12 year old to be with and the hospital has no place for me to let them sit quietly and do their homework.  Thus.. I have never been able to spend days with them.. we got in around 11pm and finish skin to skin at around 1 - 1:30 am, go home, I pump again and we sleep.. 
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