To feel upset I can’t go

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1st world problem alert.

I’ve had covid and been off sick all week. Tomorrow night is my work Christmas party, it’s my only social event of the season and I really like my coworkers.

All week I’ve been thinking “By Friday this will be gone” but no, here I am lying wide awake with a thumping headache and a temperature. I just can’t sleep.

So it’s 3am and it looks like I’ll be calling in sick tomorrow which means no party for me.

I feel gutted to be missing out! I have so few social opportunities nowadays and even though I’m over 40 and really shouldn’t give a fuck, I do.

😭

AIBU?

Not sure what being over 40 has to do with it, but yeah I'd be gutted too. Hope you feel better soon.

Ask a few people out for a meal together in the new year.

It’s completely normal to feel the way you do, I would feel the same! It’s awful when you’ve been looking forward to something and it’s snatched away.

Sometimes life’s a bit rough and these things get us through. I’m sorry for you op.

Sorry OP, that sucks. I hope you feel better soon. I can't do very much any more (long covid), but we were having a wider family Christmas day this weekend, which I was hoping to at least attend for a bit. We now have school-acquired covid here instead - again.

YANBU at all. It's horrible when you've been really looking forward to something and it's scuppered like that.

Last year I came down with Covid two days before I was meant to be meeting up with some very dear friends on a lovely sunny summer day for the first time in six months and I was absolutely gutted. I'm not even that sociable but on the odd occasions when I'm looking forward to something the FOMO is very real when I can't go!