Never know how these turn out. 
I had a back issue turn also into a leg issue that has me laid up a few months now.  The timing cost me a part-time janitor position with benefits.

I don't want to go all European on you... but do you guys not have sick pay?

That sucks.  Most accidents happen when you're doing mondane things.

I wish you a quick recovery.

uhm, if you mean how i'll earn Money ~ yup, we europeans (at least we germans) are gettin' paid for work we dont do. in a case like this. So if youre getting sick here, you dont have to worry.

@Stefan:

thank you. :D

Hope you get better soon!

It depends on where you work.  I have two weeks of vacation time every year, incredible discounts on medication and heatlthcare, and over 100 hours of sick time that I can use (my last job, I had ove 300 hours!).  But I can't just assume everybody has the same benefits.

Ah, sorry, case of mistaken (national) identity, by "stay afloat" I assumed that d21lewis meant financially, I then went on to assume that you were American, as he is... hence why I asked about sick pay.

And, I think sick pay is universal across the whole of Europe (in terms that it exists, different countries obviously have different rules).

Now's a good time to invest in some JRPG's.  If you have a PS3, I recommend Valkyria Chronicles.  If you have a 360, give Lost Odyssey a shot.  Either that or......read a few.....books?

Haha, in the UK, we can assume that everybody does get the same benefits, well, to a minimum (£80 a week for up to 28 weeks, most employers offer around 10 days of full pay - as an aside, my dad's firm offers duvet days, they come out of your 10 days sickness, but you won't be fired if you're not ill - if you're a healthy person, you can get the 10 days off, anyways - vacation pay is legal minimum of  28 days)

*buys plane ticket to Europe*

Not turning this into a debate over who has the better what (we already know the answer) but most decent jobs here offer extended medical leave, leave if somebody in the immediate family has an illness (my fiance took a year off when my daughter was having seizures several times a day back in 2002), and some sort of program to help those who are disabled.  Plus, getting injured on the job is pretty much guaranteed workman's compensation.  My aunt who died two years ago had a boyfriend who was notorious for getting hired and getting hurt on the job.  He got several hundred thousand for severly hurting his on his last job (it took a few years, though.).  She died of a medication overdose (she had Parkinson's disease) right before he got his huge payoff......sometimes, I think he murdered her but there's no way we can prove it.  But anyway, on topic, there's lots of programs here to help people who are sick.

There's too many programs to help people that are lazy, too.