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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Call in to work sick tmw?

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sunnysunchild · 02/12/2018 15:57

I'm got the cold. Admittedly I'm not dying. But snotty headachy sneezy and achy all over. In bed at present.

I'm a nurse doing baby vaccinations the next few days. Clinic looks dire ( super busy lots of teeny babies needing jags) No one else will do them in my absence ,so I'll need to run catch up clinics in the next few weeks..
I could 'man up' but feel really crap today
Stupid strong work ethic always makes me feel guilty.
Mental health also not great at the moment... but I'm a smile and you'd never know.
Be kind please...

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Toughtips · 02/12/2018 17:56

But I'd be going for a hot bath, paracetamol and lots of fluids and an early night to get as much rest as poss. Try and whizz through your appointments and try go home early.

Feefeetrixabelle · 02/12/2018 19:00

Knob off @stealthpolarbear she’s immunising babies she can’t risk passing something on. She thinks it’s a cold resting a day extra will identify if it is or if it’s sonething worse that could kill a baby. You can’t pass on a graze.

Limensoda · 02/12/2018 19:19

If you feel ill then call in sick.
I don't understand this stupid attitude that you should work if you are ill.
Don't spread germs especially so near to Christmas. If I went to see a nurse and she was full of cold I'd think she was mad to be in work.

vdbfamily · 02/12/2018 19:24

I can never really understand people who decide the day before( unless d&v with rules involved) I went to bed feeling rotting on Thursday, coughed for a couple of hours and got through a bunch of tissues. Next morning I woke up right as rain. I would dose up tonight and get an early night and see how you feel tomorrow.🤧🤧

ChikiTIKI · 02/12/2018 19:25

I thought they were jabs, not jags? Have I been saying it wrong my whole life?

Linctinlock · 02/12/2018 19:28

Regarding the 'babies could catch a cold from anywhere' comments. I do agree that they can... but this is not anywhere, its a HCP's office.

Many mothers go out of their way to avoid contact with bugs in those first few weeks. Getting immunisations should not be one of those decisions fuelled with indecisiveness over risk factors.

I personally would consider an immunisation nurse a trusted handler and expect them to atleast disclose and give me the choice of exposure.

Not for fear that you have PNEumonia but incase the child has an underlying condition. You are the one with medical training, is there a risk? Is it over cautious to stay away or warranted concern? Would you be moved with concern for a child with complex medical needs?

There isn't enough autonomy in medical care, it feels great when nurses think to do this. Feel better soon, rest up in the mean time.

youarenotkiddingme · 02/12/2018 19:33

No user she doesn't have pneumonia. But a newborn could get that or bronchioitis (sp?) from the cold virus doing the rounds atm.

Seniorcitizen1 · 02/12/2018 20:56

Colds are very easily spread. I forbid my staff to come in with a cold - if they do I send them home. This means I dont have them all sniffling for weeks at a time. I still pay them full pay

Seniorcitizen1 · 02/12/2018 20:58

Chik I was born in Yorkshire and we called them pricks. Moved to Manchester and they were called jabs and then to Scotland where called jags. I call them injections

ThatssomebadhatHarry · 02/12/2018 21:25

I despise the term man up. Like men deal with colds better!

Gravel1 · 02/12/2018 21:26

if your reading this at this hour you just dont want to go to work

Rudgie47 · 02/12/2018 21:57

Look OP just have the chuffing day off sick. If I had a newborn I wouldn't want him/her catching a cold now, would anyone. I'd rather wait till you were better.

ChaseOnTheCase · 02/12/2018 22:15

Also, if you're just doing tiny baby jabs, mum is presumably on maternity leave. So it's not half as annoying as if you'd booked time off work for it.

I'd not feel guilty about having it off. But when I worked on the reception at A GP surgery, I'd have to be dying to have the day off. You'd just have to hope to be sent home really, which only happened when an advanced nurse forced my manager to as I could barely breathe (asthma). Obviously not as close contact to patients as you though, and certainly not close to little babies.

Oneinthegrave · 03/12/2018 08:44

Wondering if you’re in the East Midlands, had my sons jabs cancelled today due to the nurse being sick, made me think of this post!

TheGirlWithAllTheFeathers · 03/12/2018 09:20

If you go in make sure you wear a mask when the babies are around.

JustHereForThePooStories · 03/12/2018 09:30

If this was a feller you'd all be shouting 'man flu!' and be telling him to take some panadol and get his ass in gear, no?

Calm down, Calamity.

cardifcannonball · 03/12/2018 10:29

I'm a HCP, and when I feel like this (really stinking cold) I usually go in, but cancel my patients. I don't want to pass it on to vulnerable people who'll feel it a lot more acutely than I do, it's not fair. I've always got plenty of essential stuff to do that's not face to face, but gets sidelined due to the pressure to see more people. I
Do always secretly hope I'll get sent home, though!
What did you do, OP?

Wauden · 03/12/2018 13:43

Hope that you are at home looking after yourself or if at work its going ok.

maddening · 03/12/2018 14:20

Could you wear a mask like a surgeon or dentist mask? And gloves etc

ichifanny · 03/12/2018 14:24

Waits to see if I get message rescheduling my babies immunisations tomorrow

jarhead123 · 03/12/2018 14:32

@user139328237 what a twat you are!

OP I hope you stayed at home in bed x

TwistedChristmas · 03/12/2018 17:05

Considering how vital imms are and how reluctant some parents are to get their child vaccinated then you are being unreasonable. Very unreasonable. Get some paracetamol and some sudoced ffs. You're a nurse aren't you?! Jeez. I'm a practice nurse and would never phone in sick unless absolutely necessary. It's a cold you said. Get a grip.

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