Would you go or work or call in sick, if you were me?

[noonar]

i teach part time and am due to work tomorrow. i've had a nasty flu like virus ever since i stopped work last week. i'm out of bed now, but feel achy and tender and generally lacking in energy.

i know that i'm going to find work really tough tomorrow. even doing the school run today really took it out of me. trouble is, i think that by tomorrow, i'll be at the convalescing, rather than really poorly stage.

i really can't afford to take any time off, workload- wise, but healthwise i'm def not going to be 100% by the morning.

what would you do?

I'd go to work.
I have to be half dead not to go.
If you are well enough to MN you are well enough to work.

Especially if you are a teacher.
Your credibility takes a nose dive every time you skive call in sick.

I'd go to work.

I personally would take the day off, but I am a lazy moo. I think you should go to work (save your sick days for when you are well enough to enjoy them as my mum used to say about me pulling sickies off school ), you will be chuffed you did (I know I would be). Really I think you want our say so , so you can have the day off so you can think "well, those people on MN said so... so I can take it off guilt free"

do you have to work for the rest of the week - or do you have a break on Thurs ?

If you have a break then I would risk going in tomorrow.

If not - then take tomorrow off otherwise you will prolong your illness and may struggle the rest of the week.

If you stay home maybe you can use some of that time get ahead with lesson plans etc - then at least you are being a bit productive while you are recovering.

I guess too - wait and see how you feel in the morning.

I would go but then I'm in moondog's camp, my head has to be hanging off before I stay home.

ah, moondog, thats a bit harsh. i've had a raging fever and am never usually off sick. i never take time off for the dcs either, as dh or grandparents have them.

i'm not sure i'd equate the degree offfitness required to tap a key board with the level of fitness needed to teach a demanding class all day!

i probably will go in, but i am actually still unwell. MNing or not.

should also say that the girls have had it too, so have not been able to sleep and rest as much as necessary, so my recovery is already slow.

i am not a skiver, btw i taught f/t for 4 years before having a single day off. i once spent the whole nigth in A&E with my gran, then went to work as normal (that was silly , though, i must admit)

there ya go . evidence that nonar is not a skiver

but i am very ,very run down.

MMJ, do you teach?

sorry, illness affecting punctuation

sorry, must be confusing you with someone else.

I think you should stay off. Because I should have stayed off back in June when I had a spot of 'flu, but because my 'head wasn't hanging off' I went in, feeling pretty rubbish. And I carried on going in... Until I was taken to hospital with viral meningitis. My immune system had given up, and I had the beginnings of septicaemia. I could have died, leaving a 12 mth old baby and DH, because I didn't want people to think I was a skiver and it was just a touch of 'flu, or so I thought. Which is INSANE, I now realise! I'm off today with a bad cold. But I'm well enough to MN. And I am not even slightly about it.

I think you should stay home. I used to go to school/work however ill I was, but I have learnt that it was the wrong thing to do. I think you should get yourself better.

hi there. thanks for your posts.

the becster, that is such a scary story. i'm so gals youre ok now

well, i did go to work yesterday but struggled enormously and made silly mistakes all day.

today i called in sick.

i had a bad experince myself, actually, becster, following a bout of flu, 7 years ago. i also went back too early, and relapsed. i ended up with post viral fatigue syndrome and was off for half a term.

it was my mum who reminded me that i have already pushed myself too far once (back in 2000), and advise me not to do it again.

thats why i'm off.

'glad'

Good on you noonar. We run around taking care of our kids, taking care of our employers, taking care of our DH... Funny it was your mum who reminded you to take care of yourself too! Post viral is horrible. I had it after glandular fever. Sometimes you're trading a couple of days in bed at the start of a virus for months of convalescence if you don't take those couple of days, so it's really counterproductive to push yourself to the limit. As I found out... (And my Mum told me at the time that I was playing with fire... I wonder if I'll be one of these wise Mums one day!)