"I pushed through it. . . . THAT IS WHAT WOMEN DO EVERY DAY!!!!!!" (emphasis mine)

[niyad]

from HRC this morning:

. . . .

"Looking back I know I should have followed my doctors orders to test, but my instinct was to push through it," Clinton said at the Black Women's Agenda forum. "That is what women do every day."

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/politics/hillary-clinton-obama-birther-pneumonia/index.html

[Sunlei]

1. I wish Clinton had a private flying trailerhome to "rest in" EVERY single day. She works to hard!

[niyad]

2. yes, she certainly deserves to be able to rest in comfort. her stamina amazes me.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Good comment

but it sort of ignores the fact that pretty much everybody but the rich have to "power through" every day.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

4. I agree.

My poor husband commutes over two hours (total) a day to a shit job for a shit corporation because it provides excellent insurance coverage. (The only good thing about the job.)
He "powers through" every day because I am a cancer survivor and I need that insurance.

[Kber]

5. I worked with mono once.

I worked for 2 weeks before finally admitting I was too sick and finally went to the doctor.

My kids are older now, but I'm still in the habit of saving my sick time for when the kids can't go to school or daycare, for snow days, for veterans and Columbus Day when the schools are closed but work is open.

The excellent daycare that we sent our kids to was closed for 30 days while work was open. (I.e they closed for the week of thanksgiving while work closed for Thursday and Friday.). For years, my husband and I used every vacation day to cover school holidays. That's 15 days for me, 15 days for him. Sick days were for when the kids got sick, not for us.

And we were extremely lucky to have 3 weeks paid vacation each, so we didn't go unpaid. Most would envy our "easy" situation.

So yeah, now with one in Middle School, one in college and a husband who can work from home to cover Columbus Day, I still hoard my sick days like golden treasure. Habits of a lifetime don't beak easy.

[niyad]

6. I am so glad that you had good vacation time, and understand why you hoard sick days.

I was talking with a friend over the weekend, about companies providing on-site child care. seems so obvious to us. (as was pointed out in the movie "9-5", some companies did have it during the war, so why not now?) I know that some companies do, but not nearly enough.