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Walking pneumonia during Rush Week (in January) and the first few weeks of the Spring semester, but I refused to stay home. Later that semester, chicken pox took out half of my freshman English class. I was out for a week.

Then a few years ago I missed work for a month for a double mastectomy. Ended up missing a few more weeks due to complications.

When I had bronchitis a couple times and pneumonia. NOT fun. And when I was in school I got my wisdom teeth taken out. I looked like a damned chipmunk and I could barely talk.

If two months is considered substantial, yes. Otherwise. No.

I contracted a staff infection during my first month of high school. It attached itself to my collar bone; I had two surgeries and I was out of school for two months. It wasn’t the best way to kick off my high school career.

I have a loud cough that would linger after I was no longer sick. Before I could handle it as well as I do today, I could get sent home from school every day for at longest two weeks straight.

Yeah. I had mono as a 5th grader. I missed a few weeks of school.

Does a week count lol?

Found out I had esophageal cancer in May. Six weeks of chemo and radiation resulted in missing a few days. I had a 13 hour surgical procedure in August followed by an eight day hospital stay. Took a few days off when I got home, had a couple of appointments. In all I missed about three weeks. Not bad considering my diagnosis. My biggest takeaway, robotic surgery is the way to go. I was up and walking less than 8 hours after I woke up.

I missed 3-4 weeks in elementary school after a surgery to fix vesicoureteral reflux. Come to find out, they can do it robotically now and down time is only a few days 🤷🏼‍♀️

Had mono my senior year of high school. Missed 3 weeks and prom.

I had my tonsils removed last year. I was out of of work for a couple weeks. That’s a brutal recovery.

2+ months recovery from bariactic surgery 18 months ago. And then diagnosed with Parkinson’s and am no longer able to work. Had to take of 2+ weeks for my wife’s brain surgery in Jan for her Parkinson’s.

Two weeks for the flu, or mono or something in 7th grade.

I was sick in seventh grade and missed an entire month of school

I was out for the last three weeks of 8th grade with tonsillitis. Finally got them removed the day after “graduation.”

Achilles’ tendon transfer and knee replacement

I got triple whammed when I was in the 12th grade where I got mono, followed by a cold, then Strep

Elementary schools are virulent, fetid swamps of viruses and bacteria. The first few years of teaching are a process of getting sick developing immunities. All new teachers miss work.
For me it was 2 consecutive weeks each year with the flu. After 4 or 5 years I hardly missed a day until retiring.

Most was two weeks school missed when I was 17.

Pneumonia, likely because of a compromised immune system from too little rest. Up at 5 AM to deliver newspapers, walk 1.5 miles to school, full school day, after school basketball practice which often lasted until 7 PM, walk 1.5 miles home.

In 2009, I was in 2nd grade when I got the Swine Flu and I missed a week of school. I remember getting sick after leaving Blain's Farm & Fleet.

Years ago when I was in middle school (8th grade) I got the Swine Flu. I had to miss 5 weeks of school because I was SO sick.

Two knee surgeries in one year. Ugh

I had the flu for a week in kindergarten. That’s pretty much it.

Broken leg :/

Malaria when I was a teacher in Gabon.

Yes... Scarlett fever, mono, & an emergency appendectomy back before it was laparoscopic

High sided a racing bike in 2000 put me out of everything for 6 weeks and took just over 6 months to really get life back on track. Then severe food poisoning in 2015 took me out for a week of work and it’s been screwing with me since.

I had pneumonia and had to go on a medical leave of absence until I was cleared to go back to work.

I tore my rotator cuff and was on strict work restrictions where I couldn’t work for months.

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Yeah ... motorcycle accident, out of work nearly 9 months.

Out of school for a few days after I broke my ankle in hockey practice

Had chicken pox age 37 and was in the hospital for 3 days, then in quarantine at home for 2 1/2 weeks with doctor visits every few days.

Took nearly 6 weeks before I was half way normal again.

Bad case of spinal meningitis caused me to be out for a month. My job was awesome to let me come back.

I was out of kindergarten for a few months, having been misdiagnosed with scarlet fever. I don’t know what I actually had.

You kidding? I’m a nurse. I’m lucky I’m still alive considering my injuries

appendicitis for a week once.

Yes after a head injury once.

I took about four months off for back surgery and recovery. I had six months of sick leave saved up for just that kind of reason.

Yes. I got mono the first semester I was away at school. It was awful.

Does a month count as a substantial amount of time? If so, then yes, at least twice. Once after a surgery and once after an illness.