I’ve been coughing and hacking for a week now. I figured it was a cold, and that it would eventually go away. I usually get kind of sick at the beginning of every school year, with the germs and the enclosed space and all. Yesterday morning I started getting a headache. Coupled with the coughing by the afternoon it had developed into a migraine. I made sure to leave a really detailed lesson plan before going home for the day, just in case. Rob took one look at me as I walked in the door and he called the sub-line himself.
I spent most of today vegging and coughing. The coughing is really bad, and I hate coughing because of the time I coughed so much with asthma that my lungs collapsed, so this afternoon Rob brought me to the walk-in clinic. The other two or three people in the waiting room were looking at me like “OH LORD SHE HAS SWIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE FLUUUUUUUUUU” and actually switched seats. Fine. Turns out I have an upper respiratory infection (I’ve had them before, but it’s been a few years). Antibiotics, took the day off for tomorrow, and I should be fine to go back to work on Monday.
Is it convenient for me to take time off work? No. I always feel totally guilty about taking time off, but I figure that if I didn’t take this time I would have just gotten sicker and wound up in the hospital, so yeah. Two days beats two weeks, is how I’m looking at it right now.