I made it through the week and that weekend I called Peter, the head of our office, and told him everything. He clearly understood how scared I was because when I proposed taking a week off or working remotely, he suggested I take a month off, paid, to focus on recovery. I was worried about letting him and the client down, but he told me that those things were trivial. At the time, our firm was struggling and as the head of the office, he put his own job at stake by pausing an important client project. It was a moment of leadership that inspired me.
