Thursday January 20, 2011- Day 17

I wake up feeling much better..not 100% but close to 85% so I decide to go to work. I want to go in and talk to my boss about leave sharing. I only had 19 days of leave to begin with and I've already used up 11 days with my illness so I know there's no way I'll get through this without help. I had read in the employee manual that we had a leave sharing policy so I want to talk to her about it and maybe ask co-workers to help me. If not I will have to go on Family Medical Leave Act which is unpaid leave which I honestly cant afford to do. I get to work and email my boss about it and she immediately replies that all someone has to do is fill out a leave transfer request form and turn it in for it to be done. Unbeknownst to me, the day before in the staff meeting my boss had already gone over the leave sharing policy and my co-workers had already generously given up their leave to help me. In fact they give up so much leave I could take off for the next several months with pay! I am so shocked. You never realize how much you mean to people especially co-workers until something like this. I am moved to tears by their generosity. How good is my God that something like this happens? I get home and share the good news with my family who all are happy for me. I wont abuse this new leave. When I'm feeling well I will still go to work but I feel better knowing that on days when I'm not feeling well I dont have to feel pressured to go to work so I dont lose pay. This is the best news in a long time and I'm grateful. It is a good day. I also speak with the nutritionist on this day who puts me on a very strict B.R.A.T. (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast) diet and suggest I start taking immodium AD everytime I have diarhhea. I take her words to heart and vow to change my diet immediately eating just chicken broth and drinking gatorade the whole day.