Doxycycline gives a full recovery in 87 percent of early cases. If you have waited three weeks to take the antibiotic, you have reduced the chance that it will work for you, but there is still a good chance that it will work, so don't delay any longer. Taking an antibiotic does not make you resistant to it.
Under FMLA, an employee can take time off to care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition. The U.S. Department of Labor defines immediate family member (for FMLA purposes) as a son, daughter, spouse, or parent. Domestic partners are not spouses or relatives under the FMLA.
1 In a case when an employee qualifies for FMLA (50 employees within 75 miles, one year or more tenure, and having worked 1,250 hours in the past 12 months) and the employee needs leave to care for a registered domestic partner with a serious health condition, the employee can use up to 12 weeks of FLA for this purpose.