I have actually been battling a bad cold all week. But I am one of those people who will NEVER let it stop me. I refuse! I am one of those people (the few! the proud!) who have NEVER once called in sick to work. NEVER in 30 years of working! (Through TWO pregnancies also, mind you!) I live under the rule that if you get up, take a shower and get dressed, you will feel better. Ask my kids. I didn't allow them to give in to sickness either. That's why when I really get sick, I get angry. Today, I am sick.
I went to Ray's party last night, coughing and sneezing and dancing in a Prom dress out in his back yard...yeah, probably shouldn't have done that. And though the guys SWORE to me that the two shots of tequila would cure my cold, I woke up today feeling worse than ever.
Thankfully, I was off today. I stayed in my jammies and read the paper and watched "The Prestige" and then realized I was out of drugs...I had to get dressed and go battle the confusing wall of cold medicines...JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING TO MAKE ME FEEL GOOD AGAIN...Certainly $26 worth of cough drops, Emergen-C and cold tabs will help.
I am back home, and back in my jammies and back on the couch and full of drugs again.
And, tomorrow, at 4:30 am I will get up, get in the shower and get dressed and go to work and I will feel better. Well, it doesn't matter how I feel. I will go to work.
Cause that's what people like me do.
9 comments:
Julie I hope you feel better! I found that when I feel like I am coming down with a cold, I make my spicy shrimp Thai soup. The heat from the chili paste kills any bad bug in my system.
Julie, I am so sorry that you are sick! I am glad you were able to rest today, and hopefully tomorrow you will feel 110% or at least close to 100%!
Nyquil is my drug of choice...a few shots back to back always works for me ;-)
remember that line: "if I were bleeding out my eyes you would make me go to school!"...
remember that time that I threw up on the way to school and you made me go anyway...with barf on my jeans and without re-brushing my teeth!
And look at the woman you are today!
You made your daughter go to school when she was sick and with barf on her jeans? I didn't realize how tough you were.
Hardcore.
I, too, HATE to be sick. I am not one of those people that "milk" illness so they last longer. When I worked, I was sick for an entire week and it was the worse thing ever. I lost my voice and, since I taught school, going to work and actually doing something productive, wasn't an option.
Are you feeling any better? I certainly hope so!
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