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[quote=Anonymous]Wow I'm impressed this has never happened to you. It's happened to me a handful of times. Once when I had food poisoning, once when I had a bad reaction to medication that made me violently ill, and a couple times when I've had debilitating migraines (I have chronic migraines that are medicated but they have worsened over the years and I've had a couple that were so bad that I became disoriented and lost vision).

My spouse has taken over each of those times, including taking sick leave from work if necessary. Luckily his work is pretty amenable to this as long as it's just occasional. And it definitely evens out between the two of us because I'm the WFH parent with the flex schedule who handles the vast majority of our kid's sick days or random days off from school, plus does heavy lifting to fill in the gaps in the summer.

If I were a single parent I'd have to live near family who could help or employ a PT nanny or something because with my migraine issues and some bad luck, it seems inevitable that there are days when I just can't function. At least until kids are old enough that you could just ask a neighbor or fellow parent to help get them to and from school or maybe send them to a friend's house for a Saturday while you recovered. Maybe like 7 or 8? My kid is 5 and these illnesses all happened when she was 2-4, so she needed more care than that and I would not have felt safe just having her home with me while I was that unwell.[/quote]

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