Yeah I had two weeks off work, not because of it, just how the timing worked out and for me that was better, i needed the time alone but I don’t have a busy job so would have been alone with my thoughts.
Oh! Also I don’t know if I said this, when I got back from my time off I told my desk mate what had happened, said I wouldn’t be telling anyone else unless asked directly but she was welcome to mention it if it came up for any reason. No one spoke to me about it so I thought no one had noticed I was sad. Turned out almost EVERYONE noticed but they discreetly spoke to her to be like “hey any idea what is up with herb” and she explained and said I didn’t want to talk and amazingly, everyone listened, even people who normally are busy bodies. Apparently it was super obvious something was wrong. In hindsight, no idea why I thought people wouldn’t notice I never smiled and kept going to the loo and coming back with a red puffy face. Sometimes I actually had tears rolling down my face at my desk.
I say everyone, not sure how many people really as I know for sure most of the men didn’t notice, but a fair few women were informed. I am fine with this as even now I don’t want to talk about it but was a bit cringe to realise everyone had twigged. I only found out a few weeks ago when I mentioned to my desk mate that I’d had a Christmas card addressed just to me and asked her if she had told the person in question.
I may have said this already so apologies for repeat story if so.
How have other people handled it with work?