But if what you are doing works for you ** Jomo ** then keep being teetotal. As long as your liver values are normal and you do get checked every once in a while I don’t see anything wrong with it personally.
Hi, I am currently on the interferon treatment, and have been for about 5 months. I can not tell you how it will effect her, but i can tell you my experience with the treatment. i have been trying to learn to cope with this, some days are easier then others. I will tell you I found the more i stay busy the better i feel, I don’t agree with not doing your normal activities I became more depressed and also felt sicker the mind is a powerful thing. I almost took a semester off and decided against it, instead took on a 14 credit hour school load. That was the best thing for me i do not have time to feel yucky. I will tell you this once she gets results that treatment is working, there is such a big difference in attitude.
Zombie-feron!
Just to further update this 8 year-old “risen from the dead” thread, it’s likely that next year the FDA will approve a new anti HCV drug (telaprevir) to be used along with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. It looks like it will reduce treatment time and increase cure rate.
Unfortunately, side-effects and their severity seem to increase also.
Seeing as an actual MD has contributed some current information, we may as well leave it open.
Under no circumstances do you let this person go or lay her off, so she can get unemployment.
It sounds good but isn’t.
First of all, to collect unemployment you have to be eligible for work. If she’s too ill to work for you, she’s too ill to work somewhere else.
Of course she could skirt around it and lie and say she’s looking, but if it is found out she is lying to collect, she’ll just wind up paying the money back.
Second, if she gets worse, she could double back and sue you for violating the ADA. Oh you’re friends now, but a few hundred thousand in a settlement could look a lot better to a sick person than a nice boss. Or she could get in the hands of a lawyer or relative that doesn’t understand your motive.
And what would your defense be? You wanted to help her. That makes you defrauding unemployment and her in collusion with you, so she’d wind up paying the money back.
If you do this, it’ll come back to bite you in the “end” so to speak.
Your employee should apply for food stamps NOW. It’ll take a month and she should fill out the application as if she wasn’t working. She should apply for all the aid at once.
Usually to get any form of disability on a state or federal level you must be permanently disabled, but sometimes on a state level, you get a sympathetic agent who will OK you. So you’d apply for food stamps, medical aid, and aid to children, and cash grant.
Chances are she’ll be knocked back for everything but food stamps, but it’s easier to apply for it all at once and get knocked back on the things you aren’t qualified for.
I can’t tell whether you own the business or run it. Either way for future, you need to introduce long term disability and short term disablity to your company. Or if you just run it, talk to the owner.
Long term disability can be really cheap, if your young, about $1.50 a paycheck. Short term disability is much higher.
The employee would pay for this out of his/her paycheck as a deduction as if the company offered life insurance and such.
This won’t help this particular employee as it’s too late but it’s a nice option companies can offer employees and since most (if not all) of the cost is on the employee it’s a cheap way to secure employees.
In all reality the best thing you can do is try to arrange for her to work. Maybe work from home, maybe do different jobs that aren’t stressfull.
Remember if she goes out and your company fall under the FMLA., (which unless it’s small it most likely will) she’ll get the 12 weeks of leave. So when she goes out make sure you or your H/R does two seperate assesments one for rules under the ADA and one for rules under the FMALA and give her whatever confers on her the greater benefit
The FMLA is going to require when she returns to work she gets a job back. What most people fail to realize is it doesn’t mean your exact job back. The FMLA does not require you hold a job open for 12 weeks. That would be hard for some businesses, but you must return the employee to a positon with same pay and similar rank and status.
As I said the only real thing you can do for your employee besides offering emotional support is to try to find as much work as possible she could do from a sick bed, so she would have some income coming in
My late wife Ayesha (see upthread) passed away from Hep-C induced liver failure three years ago, sometimes the cure is not a cure.
Peace
LIONsob
Marxxx, did you note you were replying to an 8 year old OP? Good advice, but probably not still relevant for the poster.
Yeah, nasty disease. Causing a lot of grief. 