My mother has been admitted to hospital this morning for a double organ transplant. She is hopefully going to have the op this evening and will be admitted to ICU following the operation for 2-3 days. Following this she is expected to spend around a month in hospital before she can return home.
My issue is with my work, I can't decide if it would be unreasonable to take time off or on the other hand am I being unreasonable to think that I can go to work and function normally whilst my mother is in ICU?
I'm a teacher so I'm conscious that to the parents of my class who won't know why I'm off it looks like I've just had 6 weeks holiday then I'm off sick in week 2. Not great really. On the other hand though I don't want to turn up to work and feel overwhelmed by it all and not be able to do my job properly.
I don't know what to do for the best, I don't know what to expect following my mums operation and whether I am over reacting perhaps, any suggestions? The hospital is a three hour round trip from my home so visiting in the evening after work is going to be difficult especially with trying to find childcare as my husband works evenings and I can't take the boys to visit.