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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher (vaccinated/boosted). I had three students out this past week with Covid (all three of these students do not wear masks).  I also have families who have stopped the in-school testing for their children (these students don’t wear masks at school). My situation may not be something that comes to mind with many of you. I am scheduled to have surgery in less than four weeks. If I test positive for Covid, I can’t have surgery. My surgeon wanted to operate sooner, but I wanted to wait until school was over. It’s a surgery with a long recovery and I need the summer to recuperate. I am doing everything I can while in the classroom (including wearing a proper mask) to avoid testing positive. It doesn’t matter if I’m asymptomatic. A positive test result means I can’t have surgery in June.

Sometimes testing is about protecting others who may have situations you know nothing about. [/quote]

As someone with immediate family members with complicated medical conditions, I’m fairly sympathetic to those, but I’m pretty confused by what sort of surgery would have such a long recovery period that you [b]couldn’t wait 2 weeks after school and still be able to work in the fall.[/b] One of my family members was jogging less than 3 months after a liver transplant, and there aren’t a lot of procedures with longer recovery times than that.[/quote]

Having surgery at the end of June gives me the time to recover so I WILL be able to work in August.

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Understood, but while I obviously have no idea what sort of surgery you’re having done, it really seems like having the surgery at the of June or the beginning of July would either allow you to go back before classes resume, or at least minimize time away.  If you’re really that concerned about the impact of getting covid, it seems like waiting a couple weeks would have been a good tradeoff.

Interesting that it’s being done at a hospital. Almost everything non-emergent is done at outpatient surgical centers these days.[/quote]

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