It's not a vacation if you are stuck at home with lingering pain after having routine surgery. If you are alone most of the time while your family is at work or school. If you have a hard time getting to the potty and feeding yourself, much less bathing and sleeping, and doing anything other than laying in a lounge chair in a vicodin haze. If it happens to be the holidays and you end up missing out on a lot of fun shit. If you finally wind up on a leave of absence because your leg muscles forgot how to walk. Or if when you do get the general hang of it, your boss wants you to return with no restrictions - at all, so you are not allowed back for another few weeks - again. When you are stir crazy, broke, or just plain ole miss your job, that's not a vacay.
So, if after you return to work and feel like you need to plan a real vacation, with travel to a fun place with your honey, YOU TOTALLY SHOULD. Especially if you haven't had one in years. Because NO, a leave of absence for surgery doesn't count. And anyone who comments about that or gives you a hard time, doesn't understand that or give a flip about you as a person or a co-worker.
So, go ahead make your plans. And resolve to yourself that if you are ever on the other side of that equation, you will show more grace and goodwill. Because it sucks to not recover from surgery the way you thought you would.
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