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.
In California law, a domestic partner is a member of a state-registered domestic partnership, a form of civil union that gives a couple marriage-like status for such things as child custody, inheritance and medical decision-making. Same-sex couples, who are barred from marrying in California, account for 95 percent of domestic partnerships,