When is a good time to return to work?

I have a sitdown desk job where I answer phones in customer service and sales. The job is very mentally stressful. My insurance company is granting me 4 weeks to start, but various other women in the office have taken 6-8 weeks. Now, let me explain our job! We have to sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day with 2 -15 minute breaks. I do not have the type of job that if I start to get sick and have to go to the bathroom I can just get up. If you are offline more than 6 minutes in a day, you get written up. Also, let's say I go back in 4 weeks and then I find in the 5th week I have a real bad day, my incision gets infected or I am extremely tired I still have to go in and work my full shift. There is no calling in or asking for a half day off, if you call in that is considered a hit and you can only have 3 hits in a rotating one year period and then you get fired. So what I need to know is there anyone out their that has the same kind of job restrictions as me and how long did you take off and was it hard sitting 8 hours without being able to walk around every hour or so?

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