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How do you judge?
How do you judge when you're sick enough to stay home? That's always been hard for me. Because whenever I stay home, I feel guilty somehow, as if I were faking it. Even though I know that I'm not.
Hell, people at work get mad at me because I come in when I'm obviously sick, and (they say) infect them. And they're probably right. I'm not just talking about my current job, either; I've been told the same thing at any number of other jobs I've had.
So tomorrow morning I'll need to figure out what to do. I started taking the antibiotic last night. I feel like shit today; even with Robitussin DM, I had a hard time breathing and was coughing up green stuff (sorry if that's TMI). At times the general pain was severe, enough so that even though I took a maximum OTC dose of ibuprofen, the pain was hard to cope with.
My voice has been mostly gone all day. Because I've done very little talking, right now I can talk - I sound remarkable hoarse, but I can speak and be understood.
Tomorrow morning I'll have to decide if I should go into work or not. A lot of that will depend on how I feel in the morning, of course, but right now my brain is telling me "IDIOT! You're still really sick. What the hell are you thinking? Of course you should spend another day in bed!". But at the same time I feel guilty...this sucks.
How do YOU make the call? Do you have any hard and fast rules for yourself, or wing it, or what?
Hell, people at work get mad at me because I come in when I'm obviously sick, and (they say) infect them. And they're probably right. I'm not just talking about my current job, either; I've been told the same thing at any number of other jobs I've had.
So tomorrow morning I'll need to figure out what to do. I started taking the antibiotic last night. I feel like shit today; even with Robitussin DM, I had a hard time breathing and was coughing up green stuff (sorry if that's TMI). At times the general pain was severe, enough so that even though I took a maximum OTC dose of ibuprofen, the pain was hard to cope with.
My voice has been mostly gone all day. Because I've done very little talking, right now I can talk - I sound remarkable hoarse, but I can speak and be understood.
Tomorrow morning I'll have to decide if I should go into work or not. A lot of that will depend on how I feel in the morning, of course, but right now my brain is telling me "IDIOT! You're still really sick. What the hell are you thinking? Of course you should spend another day in bed!". But at the same time I feel guilty...this sucks.
How do YOU make the call? Do you have any hard and fast rules for yourself, or wing it, or what?