So where do you draw the line, between sciving and being genuinely ill? I mean, I am finding it really hard working more or less full time at the moment and I can't say that I haven't just dreamt of taking a sicky! However, I ache, I am tired and not sleeping well, the glands in my neck are swollen and I have a sore throat. My voice is slightly husky. I guess I could make some money out of that though if it continues!
One little voice in my head is telling me that if I'd gone to work today I'd be fine and would have forgotten all about my aches and ailments. The other little voice is saying that if I keep going at the same flat out rate that I seem to have been going of late, I will be more ill and will need more time off.
I have this little fear now about being ill and not being able to look after my children properly. I guess most single parents feel the same. What if I am too ill to pick them up from school, too ill to cook, too weak to...
Then the other little voice tells me not to be so dramatic. Hypochondriac. Just get on with blogging and feeling sorry for yourself.
Yours pathetically
Do you hear the voices? They are calling!
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I used to be one of those people who'd rush back to work before I was properly recovered and quickly found that not only do you not get any thanks but you merely end up spreading the illness around your workmates. So bugger work; stay home, get yourself better and don't feel guilty about it!
I say relax and enjoy it now you are settled at home for the day!
I used to go in when I felt awful and no one was the least grateful to me for being a martyr.
Greetings and apologies for being absent so long!
You're obviously pretty poorly and not up to normal work, so I think you're perfectly entitled to take some time off to recover. If you keep on working when you're feeling rotten you'll probably just end up feeling rottener. Enjoy the time off and the blogging catch-up. And give yourself some little treats - like chocolate cake.
I absolutely know EXACTLY what you are feeling today. I used to have just the same sort of ailment when I was a single parent... and would take a day off, knowing that I could probably have gone in to work and felt ok (and wouldnt have felt so damned guilty all day) Would also have been telling myself that I felt really bad, but was it quite bad enough to take a day off, etc etc. Same thoughts going round and round in head. Relief when the energy that suddenly left me totally, would come back again, unasked but so welcome.
I reckon that being a single parent is so SO knackering that our bodies just cant take it. We NEED that support system that other married/with partner people have. Just take care of yourself... support yourself wholeheartedly by eating well, getting lots of rest, and seeing your friends when you can.
In the meantime I send you all the hugs in the world... am sure the energy will come flooding back soon... it always does, but isn't it a pain when its just not there?!
(((((more hugs))))))
Absolo-bloody-lutely you did the right thing! Think no more of it. You rested, you will be so much better for it tomorrow. Don't mess with swollen glands, you're body is fighting something and you probably nipped it in the bud by doing the sensible thing for everyone, and staying home. Get well soon. xx
Sounds like the flu to me...do take care and rest. I used to think how nice it would be to take a sick day off once in awhile and just lounge on the couch all day, but then when I really did stay home because I was sick, I'd feel guilty and think of all the work piling up. But your co-workers will thank you for keeping those germs at home!
I'm feeling a bit similar today. Not surprising as I have been surrounded by germs.
Hope you feel better soon and don't worry..... better to nip an illness in the bud than to work through it and get really ill. Listen to your body.
Maggie X
Nuts in May
Like you, I used to be afraid to take a day off when I was sick. I often ended up sicker than if I had done the smart thing and stayed home for a day or two.
some times we have to listen to our body and not our mind :-)
You're not being pathetic, I expect we all feel the same. I know I worry all the time, what would happen to my children etc?? They have an evil step mother that doesn't want them around...
I don't know what the solution is, I'm not working yet...so am lucky but I'm trying to find things I can do from home. I'm so sorry you are in this situation, makes me so angry that this can be allowed to happen. Take care, I hope you are feeling better today. X
You are ill - stay at home and get better.
However you might want to keep the husky voice ;-)
I used to get fed up with the martyrs who'd come in clearly too ill to be in the office but telling everyone how they just had to be there because their project/department/team etc. couldn't function without them. Really? Time for your boss to get rid of you then. Would be my thought... of course in the next few days the rest of the project/department/team would go down with the same thing and they'd all take a day or two off ... so you are helping by taking a day off, you are stopping others having to take a day off to recover from whatever you'd give them if you were there today...
Look at that brilliant, faultless logic
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