WWYD- Go to work or not?

isitenough

If my OH could be there when I couldn't then I'd go to work, specially if money was tight. You never know what other financial stuff will crop up to make it even tighter.
Yes I'm the mum but I don't need to be there 24/7 for these things. My OH can manage just as well (better in some cases, sickness is not my thing!).

WantToBeSE

It depends on how desperately i needed the money and how far away from the hospital my job is.

As long as i could be there when he is 'put under' and also be there as soon as he wakes up, i think i'd go to work.

EDIT...changed my mind! It SOUNDS so reasonable, since you couldnt do anything for the child, they dont even know if you are there etc...but looking at both of my children there is NO WAY i could leave them alone to have an op.

Spendless

WantToBeSE wrote: »

It depends on how desperately i needed the money and how far away from the hospital my job is.

As long as i could be there when he is 'put under' and also be there as soon as he wakes up, i think i'd go to work.

I don't know that I'd be able to be there when they woke up, considering that they'll be admitted at 7.30am and it's only a minor op. I haven't had any details through yet. If I work it's until 5pm and I don't think they'll be in that long.

I don't work that far from hospital, about 10 mins drive away or 30 mins walk.

sacha28

I wouldn't go to work. No matter how 'minor' the op is it still requires a GA, which carries alot of risks, especially in children. I would never forgive myself if my child had a reaction and I was just trying to earn a couple of pennis!!

Seanymph

I would be in that hospital and outside the door every second that my child was in there.

I take time out for both my kids, for my step kids, for my OH - and Tuesday I am taking the day off to take my neighbour in for a scan!

People are more important than jobs - and our kids should be the most precious thing in the world.

Of course nothing SHOULD go wrong, but my kids see me as they go under, and know I will be there as they wake up - they allow you into the theatre antiroom as they put them under, and they take you into recovery as a parent as they bring them 'round - and you wait in a special parents waiting room right next to the theatre and recovery ward.

I would think a 10 year old child to be left unaccompanied when having surgery which was scheduled would be a very remarkable thing to the staff.

Soleil_lune

Family first always. I would not stick with any employer who expected me to put work before family. I have worked for many work-driven bosses who expect me to put my job first. They're the worst employers.

DevilsAdvocate1

I think it would be different if you were proposing that the other parent stayed off work while you were working during your child's op. But I don't think it would be right for your child to have no one in the hospital for them should something go wrong or should they be upset after the op. I have had a GA twice and felt like rubbish afterwards.

Spendless

Why am I getting posts about child not having anyone with them? The other parent would have been there. Both will be there at the very beginning up until the point they are taken to operate on regardless if one is working.

As I have had no details so far from the hospital beyone please fetch child in at 7.30am, I have no idea what we will be told re if we wait or are told please come back at x time, or what the likely time is for for child to be coming round from anaesthetic.

Dunroamin

Seanymph wrote: »

I would be in that hospital and outside the door every second that my child was in there.

I take time out for both my kids, for my step kids, for my OH - and Tuesday I am taking the day off to take my neighbour in for a scan!

People are more important than jobs - and our kids should be the most precious thing in the world.

Of course nothing SHOULD go wrong, but my kids see me as they go under, and know I will be there as they wake up - they allow you into the theatre antiroom as they put them under, and they take you into recovery as a parent as they bring them 'round - and you wait in a special parents waiting room right next to the theatre and recovery ward.

I would think a 10 year old child to be left unaccompanied when having surgery which was scheduled would be a very remarkable thing to the staff.

The child wouldn't be unaccompanied - his father can be there throughout.

Morganarla

Every GA carries the risk of death.

Even if my child's loving, amazing father that they adored was there throughout, I would not want to think for the rest of my life that I was at work trying to make an extra quick buck when I received the news that my child died in recovery. I'd want to be at the door of that recovery ward with their father, receiving the news at the same time. For the sake of my OH and my child.