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COVID-19 and Transplant Patients

Transplants | Last Active: Mar 6, 2021 | Replies (459)

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@gingerw

My husband is a kidney transplant patient, receiving his kidney 10/1/2016. Just yesterday some of his co-workers came to him and asked why he was still there, not working from home. He went to the vice-president of the company, who sent him home. First he got software and permissions for installing company software on his personal computer, and the IT unit created a new drive that he and others will access for joint projects. He is about three weeks away from retiring after a 40 year career at the same company. He will go in tonight to get some equipment to bring home and work on, then return it on Saturday and work all day with fewer people there. The biggest obstacle for him will be lack of people contact face-to-face, as he is very much a people person.
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Sounds like me. I am going a little stir crazy cooped up at home. Any business I have to take care of is extremely difficult. In Mn. Bank lobbies are closed-government buildings are closed so even if you now have all this free time it’s very difficult to get anything done. I had to chuckle when you mentioned your husbands co-workers admonishing for being at work. I work with outside vendors on a daily basis and they all pretty much know about my transplant. And when they started to quiz me as to why I was still working in a job that had such a high volume of foot traffic I started to consider a LOA. But it wasn’t until I got a text message from my daughter in all caps that I did the right thing. Hope to get back to work in the upcoming months and until then its me and the dogs and a very long honey-do list.