Rant!!!

Lay the pregnant hormonal women smack down on them lol i would, i used to get mad when people would stay at work sick coz the bugs travel through the air con and it infects more people.

I have the opposite problem. I'm feeling like total sh*t, I have a doctors appointment at 12:30pm and I'm coughing and sneezing yet my boss won't let me go home to rest!! I'm thinking after the doctors I'll just go home and call in and say I'm not coming back for the rest of the day

kebakat....tell you boss I've given you the rest of the day off!

The other girl hasn't gone home yet dispite us offering to cover all her work, and now she's on the phone with personal calls!...every time that hacking cough starts up I'm cringing....I consider myself so lucky that I shook mine as quick as I did and honestly if I get sick again with only 1.5 days sick leave left I'll be really upset!

And no I don't think others do stop to think how easily they can infect others. The really funny thing is that this girl is the flamming Health and Saftey officer!

Edited by Paws

Medical certs are great!

oops.. by friend I meant co-worker hehe

People without kids or being pregnant seem to have no notion of how important being healthy is!!! I mean, think of the hangovers they inflict upon themselves! The idiocy!

Thank goodness she finally went!!  It's rude, sharing your germs.  I hate it when people are bored of being at home when they're sick so figure they'll pay me a visit... NO CONSIDERATION!!  Had one friend who did it every time she was ill, when I had a condition that had left me with a shoddy immune system and unlikely to recover from bugs without the help of drugs!  I eventually had to put the hard word on about why I don't visit sick people anymore, and after about 8 "no, we can't do that today"'s, she got the idea.  I've noticed how many people working in the supermarket checkouts seem to have chesty coughs this winter, and they cough and hack away while handling all of my groceries, then my efty card... so not cool! 

argh i know i hate it when people are like that too.

Prob with me at the mo is - I can't escape it, IT IS PART OF MY JOB.   yes we see the odd fracture and the odd laceration and stitching and putting on plaster casts (which might i add - very exciting lol seriously fun) but other than that, it's this icky sickness bug that's going round, pretty much every one i see each day (about 1 person every 15 mins for 8 and a half hours, for the last 8 weeks, you do the maths) has one of two things - there seem to be two nasty bugs going round

One is the sicky chucky bug. comes on suddenly, high fevers, shivering, feel like you are going to die, with body aches, skyrocketing temps and feeling really nauseated(if you are lucky), and vomitting and diarrhoea (if you are really UN-lucky) will usually go away if you are reall yunhealthy like i did when i got it in the first week of placement, and just stayed home 1 day, didn't eat, just sipped on the green mango flavoured E2 and had little bites of dairy milk choccy bars, then soup for dinner with a bread and by next day was all good.

The other is the flu, which is sooo nasty this year, hanging on for weeks and usually ending up down in the chest which for a fair amount of people - it JUST WON'T GO AWAY without medical intervention that is. It is not uncommon this winter to be sick for at least the better part of a month with one aspect of it or the other.

So really, to cut a long story short (after i have already shared the long story, lol) i knew that for it was inevitable that i'd get it, once the kids got sick i knew that being around sick people AT HOME as well as AT WORK, that i would get it.

argh, stupid winter... roll on summer so i can complain about the migraines and hayfever.

I'm not a whinger, really i'm not

mm most people we see are the ones with the flu - that's the one that's been hanging on - some schools and daycares have been hit really bad. most kids still have coughs... we took Paris to docs and she got antibiotics cos hers turned into bronchitis.