First time post for me, so hope this works right. I am a 51 year old nurse (30 years since graduation) who was just diagnosed with breast cancer - had a bilateral mastectomy 1 week ago. Two of five lymph nodes were positive. Bone scan negative. Will see the oncologist in two weeks. Have many other tests before then. I work in a clinic setting as the on call outpatient nurse, doing lots of shots -allergy, B12, kids shots, etc and then a lot of walk in type work - strep ID, UTI, ? pregnancy.
I was told today that they are setting me up for my 12 weeks of medical leave - boss had talked with OSHA and because of my almost continuous exposure to the infections in the clinic, they recommended relieving me of my duties for the time being. I know I need to recuperate, and I know that chemo is not going to be fun, but what do you guys think about this? I don't want to use up my leave before I'm able to come back to work...
