I'm glad you're feeling better, Drac - make sure you get enough rest and don't relapse.
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I'm glad you're feeling better, Drac - make sure you get enough rest and don't relapse.
Good for you - too many people try to work through being sick, and end up sicker.
Tried that one year and almost wound up with walking pneumonia, I checked in to a local ER and found out my temp was 103 and my BP was theough the room..I had been fighting it off and working thgrough it for about a month...My department has one of the WORST sick day policies I have ever heard of..I missed today and will miss tomorrow, and because its St Idiots Day I will have to have a doctors excuse to come back to work..
Wait... you have to have a doctor's note to come back to work? Not to get off of work? And what does St. Patty's day have to do with it?
This could be perfectly clear, but it's a been a really long week, and my brain is turning to oatmeal.
St Stupids Day is falling on a Saturday..They are expecting a RECORD number of idiots downtown and a RECORD number of alcohol related incidents and ANYONE that calls off has to have a Doctors excuse..
Ah... so you have to have proof from a doctor that you're really sick, or you're fired? That makes more sense than what I was thinking - that you had to have a doctor's clearance to return.
No, they don't fire you..You get a written warning..Yes, you NEED the doctors excuse in order to return to work..
Like I said, it makes more sense than what I was thinking... still, I would think a fever of 103 would cover it.
Then again, one of my more gung-ho students showed up for pretesting last night and asked if he could take it easy... forgetting he hadn't told me he'd been in the ER with chest pains that day (at 26) - seems he has pericarditis (sp?) - inflammation of the sac around the heart - but he'd missed class last Monday for his father's birthday, and testing is this coming Monday; he came in to take the knowledge test he missed Monday thinking he'd told me about his ER visit, and knowing that he'd be writing most of the night...
We have idiots in out department that WILL NOT take a sick day..They save them for the Summer to augment their off days ..We use to have a mandatory 2 man in a cruiser policy..I have refused to ride with officers that are sweating non-stop ( middle of Winter) and looked unhealthy..One year one officer came to roll call coughing and sneezing, he said it was allergies..With in 2 days better than half of the department was out sick...
I work with teachers like that - except they're saving their sick days for when their kids are sick. Granted, it's a real pain in the *** to write sub plans when you're that sick, or to rely on whatever is in your emergency plans (usually only good for one day)... but I stayed home sick for the first time in 6 years last month, because my aural (ear) thermometer said my temp was 102.5... I started popping Advil and called in sick, but I was kind of afraid to drive. If it had gotten worse, I'd have started calling neighbors to drive me in.
WOW, 6 years..That's good..Before I started wearing a gun I didn't call in all that often, I had to be almost unconcious before I called in sick..
Well, it's not like I never took a day off - for tournaments, mostly - but just not because I was sick. You work with kids long enough, it builds up your immune system.
Evening, tkdgirl.
I would certainly hope you could stay home, in that case!
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Forgive my sluggishness, Kacey. How are you doing?
Yeah, do. I might have a dual reason for staying home tomorrow. 1= snow, and 2= a lovely sore throat. Now I know why I've been tired for the past few days. I haven't felt cranky until today...
No worries... extremely tired (long weekend, longer week). I may go to bed soon, even if it's not 9 pm yet... sad, isn't it?
Ick... well, at least it's not a waste of a nice day if you're stuck home sick in rotten weather.
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