Get well soon messages
The hardest part of being ill with a job is the guilt. These six are written to remove it, and not one of them mentions a deadline.
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Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.
Everything here is covered and nothing at all is waiting on you. Genuinely nothing. Take the full leave rather than half of it, and please don't think about this place until you actively want to.
Continue writing with message 1No updates from this end, because there's nothing you need to know and nothing you need to decide. I only wanted to say I'm thinking of you. Rest properly, and ignore every message including this one.
Continue writing with message 2Thinking of you. I won't ask how you're doing, since you've probably answered that more times this week than anybody should have to. If there's something practical I can help with, say the word.
Continue writing with message 3Please don't feel you need to keep anyone here updated, or check your email, or apologise to a single person. None of that matters at the moment. Look after yourself and let the rest of it sit where it is.
Continue writing with message 4A few of us were talking about you this morning and everybody said the same thing, which was to tell you not to worry about work. So consider that passed on. Take the time. We're all thinking of you.
Continue writing with message 5Everything is handled, nothing is on fire, and nobody at all is waiting on you for anything. Take the full leave rather than half of it, and please don't think about this place until you actively want to. A few of us were talking this morning and that was the unanimous message.
State plainly that nothing is waiting. The one thought keeping an ill colleague from resting is the pile on their desk. Nothing needs you, said clearly and without a small exception attached, is the most useful sentence you can send.
Do not include a status update, even a reassuring one. The moment you mention the project they will think about the project. Keep the whole card free of work and save the handover for the day they are back.
A card with no work in it, which is rarer at the office than it should be.
Write the cardIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.