We are hoping for the best

One of our employees had a stroke during his last week of vacation last summer. We thought his recovery would be fairly quick, but the stroke turned out to be worse than the doctors initially thought. At best, he starts working again after the summer.

As our desire is for him to be able to return, we have not replaced him. Hiring a temporary worker is out of the question, mainly because no one with the cutting edge skills needed is prepared to take a temporary job. Hiring someone could mean that we instead become redundant after the summer and that is not a situation you want in the middle of a downturn.

Both my husband and I were prepared for our workload to increase this autumn even before the holidays, but for an entire different reason. Losing this colleague added to that load considerably.

All we hope for is that he makes a full recovery. He and his wife have a fourteen-year-old who is far too young to have to worry about her father's health.