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HELP In A&e and worried about job

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Silvercoconut · 27/06/2026 04:05

Can anyone help with some strategies?
I'd like to be able to advise my daughter who is currently in A&e since nine o'clock this evening with terrible cellulitis in her hand and arm caused by a bug bite. She went to the out of hours doctor service because she's very swollen red and hot.

She's supposed to be in work at 11 a.m..
Just last week she had a disciplinary because over the past nine months she has had three sick days. Once was flu, once she was also unable to work due to trigeminal neuralgia for which she had a doctors certificate. And 3 weeks ago she had switched some medications, the dose was increased and she was suffering terrible nausea and vomiting.
She threw up whilst at work and was told to go home.

She's now sitting in the hospital having terrible anxiety about work, that she will lose her job I'm not sure they can do that but I don't know what to suggest to her.
I don't think she should make her way home she's in terrible pain also, she really does need IV antibiotics.

OP posts:
rwalker · 30/06/2026 07:27

SquirrelGG · 28/06/2026 21:57

What, after a couple of days off work?? Madness, and a complete waste of time. If I have a couple of days off work I don't require a meeting to check I am okay, I'm an adult for goodness sake. A boss would normally ask how a person is, that's all that is required. How can workplaces be productive with all this nonsense?

these meetings are important everything needs to be documented it protect the employer as well as the employee

sickness has to be monitored and controlled it can cripple a business

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