Thursday, October 8, 2009

Your job is too important when...

...you have a heart attack, are admitted to hospital for almost a week, and are back at work a day or two later.

My office's IT consultant, who's in his early 30s (and not overweight, and not a smoker), was with another client last week when he began experiencing shooting pains down his left arm and tightness in his chest. Luckily, that client happened to be a doctor's office and he was able to receive immediate treatment. He actually looked pretty good today.

Still, I think if it were me, I might take a little time off.

2 comments:

pollyannapenguin said...

I wonder if I would take time off? I'm not sure, but then if I don't work, I don't earn. presumably your company has sickness benefits? In which case I would DEFINITELY be having some time off!

Helen said...

He doesn't work directly for us, but for an IT company that works for a number of different clients. I'm assuming they have benefits as they're a fairly big company.

I don't know... I was just so surprised to see him back a day after he got out of the hospital. And presumably if they kept him there a week, it was fairly serious. I felt like telling him to go home and take it easy for a while.