I have been trying to figure out whether or not I was going to have to take time off work during my radiation treatments. (While rad is tough enough, I've had no surgeries to contend with, and I'm not going thru chemo.) I've now waited long enough to post this that I've answered my own question.

Yes.

I went on medical sickleave yesterday because I needed to receive an IV fluid hydration. Once that started, work was out of the question for me. Since I work at a newspaper, and 9:30 is right smack in the middle of our deadline, I wasn't able to be of much use at work, so I told my boss I'd need some time off. (I had forwarned her a week prior that it was a possibility.)

It wasn't an easy decision, because 1) I've only been working there for nine months and had all of 24 hours of sickleave built up, and 2) I'm a single person with only a single income, and 3) I really don't have a heck of a lot of money in savings.

But now that I've made the choice to take the next 4 weeks off, I am so very relieved. Now I can spend all my time focusing on the business of getting well.

I'm curious how other people have dealt with the work situation?