Sirkka felt well supported by colleagues at work.

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They were wonderful. I didn’t really… I do personal support so a lot of the… in-home personal support. So a lot of people don’t know, but of course I had to tell my immediate boss and a couple of people I work with they were very supportive. They said anything you want just let us know and I was off work for a year, I had no problem coming back and they were wonderful.

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