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Originally Posted by momofmykids
My bil is full time in the Marines. Although he and his wife have not adopted any children, their daughter was diagnosed with cancer last February. He had already done one tour in Iraq (that kept us on pins and needles!) and his unit was getting ready to be deployed again. The Marines reassigned him so that he could be home until the docs gave his daugher a clean bill of health (which hasn't happened yet). I don't know of many other "employers" who would accomodate like that, not to mention the time off they've given him so that he could trade off with his wife, one at the hospital with their daughter and the other at home with their two sons!
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Momof,
Here's hoping your niece does well. I agree - the military can be very accomidating at times. Sometimes not, though more often they will accomidate than not.
In our case, DH got special permission to carry a cell phone with him while we were waiting, got to run an 'open leave chit' so he could leave quickly when we got the call that Ryan's bmom was in labor, and, unlike my employer, got 'baby leave' when Ryan was born even though I had not given birth. The squadron's only condition was that we bring our son in for his first 'photo op' on the aircraft. No problem.
Anyhow, wanted to send my healing wishes for this little girl and pass along my thanks that the Command has done what they did so he could be there. It doesn't always work out that way. When it does, it's nice to hear.
Regina