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[quote=Anonymous]We are interviewing and found a nanny we love who has great references. We did a trial day and shadowed me for the day. At lunch time she had to take medication I asked her if she was sick and she said no, due to complications after a surgery she has chronic pain and takes prescription pain meds 2 times a day. She's been on them for 7 years and she doesn't get the side effects like drowsiness/impairment that people get when they take them for acute pain. She offered to provide a letter from her doctor stating that the medication has been used long enough that it doesn't cause the side effects. According to her references she only missed a max of 6 days of work total during employment with them (she was at the ft jobs 3 years, 4 years, and then a few pt jobs all were at least 2 years of employment) the days she did call out sick the families said were when the kids passed something along to her or the entire family was sick and they told her to stay home. During the interviews and job shadowing we would not have known she was on anything had we not seen her take it. I was thinking of calling her references and asking them if they knew she was on this medication and if they ever noticed any impairment. My DH said that would be an invasion of privacy and if they would have thought anything was wrong or suspected being under the influence they would have let her go, or informed us. He wants to hire her as she is the most qualified and we really clicked with her. 
Just seeing what others would do in this situation. Please don't flmae me since I'm not experienced with these medications besides taking them after delivery and they knocked me out and I felt drugged up[/quote]

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