to be considering staying in bed? Actual opinions needed please...

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I have a snotty nose, no voice, gluey ears, cotton wool head and chesty cough. Feel rubbish.

Am part-SAHM, part-freelance proofreader, part-student. Today is a student day, so I got up at 7 to wash, feed and dress DD (nearly two) before sending her off to nursery with Bloke.

Crawled back into bed for a minute, and here I still am nearly an hour later, thinking how cosy I am, and how nice it would be to just stay here instead of going in to university. Feel a little bit like a fraud because if it wasn't Tuesday then she wouldn't be at nursery and I would have to get up and look after her...it almost seems fortuitous that I should be a bit ill on the one day a week I would have the house to myself for wallowing resting.

I've got a two hour seminar then a two hour lecture, starting at 11, so if I'm going I need to start thinking about it now. (It's a drive, a bus ride, then twenty minutes walk to get there.) And the course is pretty intense, so I'll need to have opinions and stuff when I get there.

Mumsnet jury, do I go, or can I just stay in bed and work extra hard tomorrow?

stay in bed! think of it as insuring against getting iller.

go i'm the sort that would feel guilty all day though and wish i'd just got up and gone in

Stay in bed!

stay in bed. Absolutely no doubt.

that way you may have a 24 hour flu-ey cold instead of a 2 week one.

and why spread your germs around the seminar?

i would go in, sounds like you will miss a lot

Bed. 2 reasons.

(1) You may well be sick for longer if you don't actually get some rest.
(2) You will pass your cold/flu onto others by going to uni.

Rest and lots of fluids prescribed!

I've got a horrible bug too, and if I didn't have to get up with DS then I would be in bed too!

I'm sure your fellow students will thank you for not giving them the lurgy

Stay in bed - get better faster!

Stay in bed. DD is illing and I have kept her off school for the sake of her class mates and hoping the rest will aid her recovery. It would be more convenient for me today if she was at school.

SEA - I will feel guilty I think. However, I have all my books so could get a head start on next week's reading.

I'm umming and ahhing now. I know full well that as an undergrad I would have stayed in bed, even though I did English so only had five lectures a week anyway.

My bed is so comfy though...and I can't remember the last time I had a day to myself.

How odd, this is me this morning too!

I've taken DS to Nursesry and come home.

I figure this way I'll be dopey for one day and actually get some stuff sorted or feel crud all week and get nothing done.

Have a good day and feel better soon.
Mad

Stay in bed and do the reading you need to. Much better not to spread your germs, plus you will probably recover faster and not develop galloping pneumonia .

Thanks everyone. Think I'm staying here. It'll make a pleasant change, and hopefully I'll feel better by tomorrow. (MIL comes over to look after the baby - I will definitely be going to class tomorrow.)

Bed is the right choice.

Nobody likes a martyr, especially if they are sat next to one in a hot room.

Well you could stay in bed and recouperate or infect the entire student body with your cold and risk them having time off too... so really you're doing them all a favour

Hoorah. Feel vindicated by wise MNers agreeing with me.

Actually feel like a big pile of snotty poo, and look worse. Can just about keep up with the trendy young whippersnappers fresh from their first degrees when I am healthy, but fear today would look old and haggard like the old gimmer I am.