When poorly do you…

[Lastminutebride]

Mope around feeling sorry for yourself or try and power through as normal?

I'm talking unwell as in a bad cold, chesty cough, headache, sore throat but enough to make you feel quite unwell and like you want to curl up in bed but if you needed to you could probably try and function and do most things you’d normally do but will feel worse for carrying on

I’m currently feeling like crap and struggling to carry on as normal and feeling like I’m not sure I’ll make it into work unless I feel better soon.

I don’t nope around or try to power through. I’ll figure out what absolutely needs my energy and do as much of that as possible. If I’m not well enough for work, so be it.

I often power through and regret it so trying not to do that anymore as it can be silly and leave you worse off in the long run!

When kids little no option other than power through. Now I do the minimum if sick - get my DD to the station walk dogs then go back to bed.

Work wise I have to power through as I'm self employed but I do work alone so no chance of passing anything on. In over twelve years I've only had one day off with illness and that was with norovirus and it floored me.
Beyond work though I'm laid up if I'm really unwell and DH takes care of everything in the house. I do the same for him.

Generally try and power through it as much as possible but very occasionally have to admit defeat.

I’m very unwell currently with the worst cough I have ever had, I have had covid twice and it wasn’t like this.

When you have small children or caring responsibilities sometimes you just have to power through. I have caught this from DS, his Gf caught it as well. She went in to work as she would have received no sick pay. Really people should rest but it depends on circumstances. I have napped on and off all day, spent too much time on MN, watched two films and made lemsips.

I take myself off to bed to recover when I'm at my worst.
I've done decades of powering through and it's always for someone's else benefit, not my own. I refuse to do it now, a day or 2 in bed resting heals me quicker rather than struggling on.

I stay off and get better. I’m no good at work when I’m like that.

I carry on. Go to work, shops etc. I never take to my bed. At worst I’ve stayed on the sofa and did nothing. But that was when I was so ill I couldn’t even pick up my phone.

Rest is important to heal, also I wouldn’t want to spread a nasty cold around the workplace

Carry on as normal. I've got 4 kids so I can't afford to just lie there. I'm lucky I never get very ill but recently I had a bad ear infection and was in agony so husband swapped his rest days at work. That was really bad though. Anything else I'd just carry on.

Sometimes I mope, sometimes I power through - more powering through when my daughter was younger.

These days I can listen to my body and rest if that’s needed. And more importantly, I take all the help offered to me.

I would be pottering around with sore throat / chesty cough but I can't with a headache.

When I’m properly sick, I take time off work and take to my bed to rest, and also not subject everyone else to my germs and misery.

No small kids at home that need active parenting though, which makes bed-rest easier.

I do the basics then i rest. I'm a single parent so if I go down so does the whole ship. If I rest a bit then its giving my body the energy to focus on getting better

I used to push through when I was younger, but find it harder now. Can keep going through pretty bad pain with enough drugs but am flattened as soon as I have a fever.

Not going to lie, I'm a moper

These days I rest so I get better quicker, and properly. Last time I tried to ‘power through’ I ended up with pneumonia as a complication because I wasn’t giving my body a chance to get well.

I don't do myself any favours but I try to motor through. I usually end up worse and I'm learning to rest when my body needs to. I'm still really bad at it.

Depends how I feel. I do try and rest.

Mope around and just watch some
Good tv and get bed rest can't sleep tonight because of the soccer result got me all
Excited , but worried about what they'll say about the next article in the guardian newspaper/ observer.

I tend to like feel awful and run down if it's a cold try n eat oranges
And drink more
Tea.

If I'm that unwell I'll rest. I'm lucky in that I can wfh if needed so as not to spread any germs. Tbh I had a bad cold a couple of weeks back, which spread round the office - I'd rather people not come in if they're sick, I don't want it (and we do pay sick pay/can all wfh).

Also always kept the dc off school if ill. They recovered a lot quicker if they rested and didn't pass it round the class or to the poor teachers!

I power through in the morning until kids are at school and then I sleep until pick up and power through until they go to bed

This. I used to power through, but since having kids I've come to believe in taking one judicious day off.

It's always a question of degree though.