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[quote=Anonymous]I am immunocompromised. I work in healthcare and am exposed to all sorts of environments in hospitals, nursing homes, private residences. I take normal precautions and am fine. There are ER doctors and nurses who may have MS, crohns disease, lupus or other ailments that require immunomodulators or suppressants and they also do fine.

I can only think of scenarios when I would have to take time off from work to be a caregiver, for example if my spouse had cancer and was neutropenic.

I'm a social worker and can't imagine any diagnosis that would affect both my spouse and my job. I can only imagine if my spouse were to do something illegal and I were involved with in, like Medicare fraud that would affect my license.

Maybe I would end up working part time if my spouse were seriously ill?

But if you are sick and your spouse is not adhering to what your precautions are, that's a spouse issue. I would never ask my spouse to give up their career if I were sick because that would directly impact our livelihood, health insurance, ability to pay bills. That sounds ridiculous. Especially if I am not working, how do you expect to live?[/quote]

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