The Importance of Being Idle

Not Much To Say

It's difficult to work out what image should go with two days of sickness; maybe something will occur to me later.
So far however I've been sick, not able to see a doctor, less sick, got to see an unhelpful doctor, sicker, called work to find out that they still want me back, and then a little bit sicker again. And I pretty much slept in all the gaps where I wasn't doing those few things, and that's been an awful lot of sleep. In fact it's such an awfull lot of sleep that I don't see how I'll ever be tired again, but I know that if you leave me alone for 5-10 minutes I'll be gone again.
I honestly thought I was doing better today, but that was largely based on not eating anything or going anywhere. Well, I went downstairs for a bit, but fell asleep all snuggled up on the sofa (which made a change from falling asleep on the bed I suppose). Then I went to see my GP and see if I could get a sick-note for work and lucky me, I got the useless one. So I was told that I wasn't vomiting AT THE TIME (although if she'd waited twenty minutes for me to have a bar of chocolate I would've been) then she couldn't give me a sick note. Apparently if I'd seen somebody yesterday this would've been fine. I pointed out that I DID try to see somebody yesterday, but when I called a whole twenty minutes after the surgery opened I was told there were no more appointments and to be on my merry way... I can't really be angry though, the doctor is a professional and I understand why she can't certify an illness she didn't witness, it's my work I blame for having such ridiculous conditions on my employment.
I don't really know what the consequences of all this will be when I get back to work, but we'll just have to see, and having spoken with my manager today she seems keen to have me back, but only if I feel up to it (she repeated this several times, so it must've been important). If I still feel like this tomorrow though it'll be another day off, then back to work Thursday for a brief canter down to the weekend. Although frankly I hope I don't feel like this anymore, I'm getting fed up with it now; I don't know why but I think actually, physically being sick is just one of the single most unpleasant things you can do. Maybe that's 'cos I live a fairly sheltered life, I'm sure there are much worse things, but I don't come across them and even if I did I certainly wouldn't be rushing to participate in them...

posted by BadMonkey @ 6:18 PM