To think no wonder I'm bloody ill?

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On Friday I came down with a cold. No biggy, we all get them.
Saturday night I couldn't sleep because I couldn't stop sneezing. Constant coughing and sore throat.

Roll on Monday and I drag myself into work because they are very strict about time off.
I end up taking more than the recommended daily dose of painkillers because I just feel dreadful.

At lunch time instead of eating I go home and have a nap. I feel too hot yet am shivering.

I ask my boss if I can finish for the day because I'm not well and staff around me are complaining that they will catch it.

I am told they can't send me home because other members off staff are also ill and they have not been allowed home.

Is it any wonder we are all bloody ill being forced to come in and share our germs?

Anyway, I now have a temp of 38.4 after paracetamol and am wheezing. My poor chest / stomach seems to be working very hard just to breathe and yet again I can't sleep.

My head feels congested and even my teeth hurt. My upper body feels too hot yet the rest of me cold.

But I have to get my arse into work as usual in 7 hours.

Rant over. Feeling very sorry for myself. Meh.

It sounds like you need to get a new job if your workplace is so understaffed they can’t afford to have you off for 1 day when your ill.

For future reference, Pain in your teeth, jaw, cheekbones with a cold is generally a sinus issue although not necessarily an infection - I get it with every cold, sometimes I need antibiotics and sometimes not.

Sudafed sinus pressure and pain (pseudoephedrine and ibuprofen) is the best thing I’ve found to take for it.

Of course so many people declare they are ill with a sniffle but my definition of ill is can you get yourself dressed to get to work if the answer is yes then your not that ill .

This attitude is so counter productive - if companies encouraged staff to stay at home with contagious illnesses, they’d have much lower rates of illness and absense as a result.

This attitude is so counter productive - if companies encouraged staff to stay at home with contagious illnesses, they’d have much lower rates of illness and absense as a result.

Exactly.