Leaving next week and may have to take time off

[PumpkinPie2016]

Really couldn't be worse bloody timing 😔 I am leaving my current school after next week. Been there successfully for 6 years and I absolutely don't take the mickey with sick days. I am very rarely off - I have had 1 or 2 days in the last 3 years.

However, all day I have been feeling awful in school - temp, really sore throat (negative covid test) blocked ears and generally rough. Looked in my throat at home and lo and behold - tonsils enlarged and yellow blisters on them (sorry tmi). Pretty certain I have tonsillitis 😔

I can contact my GP tomorrow for antibiotics and will obviously go to school if I can but I really do feel awful.

I'm so conscious that it will look bad taking time off now 😔

Rant over - just don't need this 🙈

You're ill. You can't help it.
If someone thinks it looks bad, that says more about them than about you.

If you're at a school where you're worried about taking time off for tonsillitis because it might "look bad", it's probably best you're moving into pastures new. What's given you that impression, do they make a big deal about people taking time off ill? In most schools this is a given and a non-issue.

Don’t go in ill, tell your boss the truth and don’t worry about “what it looks like”. You can’t help being ill, no matter how annoying the timing.