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Aug. 23rd, 2009 04:16 pmI'm currently feeling crappy enough that I might stay home from work tomorrow. I don't know about you all, but when I'm sick and considering staying home, the thought process goes like this.
1. Waking up: Do I feel crappy enough to stay home from work today?
a. Yeah, I feel like ass.
b. I dunno, I might feel better after the grogginess from the NyQuil wears off and I've had some coffee and drugs.
IF A:
2. Stay home, take drugs, start to feel better (at least, not as bad symptoms).
3. Wonder if maybe I was well enough to go in after all.
4. Decide that if I'm feeling reasonably ok, I might as well make use of my time at home.
5. Proceed to run errands, clean, do housework, etc.
6. Start feeling like crap again by nighttime due to overexertion because really, I didn't have the energy for all that.
IF B:
2. Go in to work, take drugs, but still feel swimmy-headed and blah.
3. Think, "I'll finish this assignment, then ask to go home early."
4. Take so long finishing that assignment due to swimmy-headed blah-ness that by the time I'm done, there's not much left of the day anyway, so I decide to stick it out until the end.
5. Go home, feel like crap by nighttime due to overexertion because really, I shouldn't have gone in to work.
Now, I'm getting a bit better with the overexertion stuff while I'm actually having really bad symptoms. Sometimes, though stuff just needs doing. Like today, I really needed to do laundry and go to the grocery store, and then I had to put sheets on the bed again after laundry was done. But it wiped me out. Now I think I ought to stay home tomorrow. I still have problems with overexertion when either medicine or the beginnings of healing have me feeling slightly better. But after a day of that, either at work or out of it, I'm right back to crap again. I have to get it through my head that even if I'm feeling a little better, I usually need an extra day of rest while sick, or my colds hang on forever.
At this moment, I'm in a position of not knowing what to do for dinner. I have stuff to make a watermelon-tomato salad and some nice cod, but I think I may just save that for tomorrow night and order in tonight instead. It bugs me because I want healthy food (really, I do!), but I just don't have the energy for prep, cooking, and cleanup right now. It bugs me because if I DID have the energy, I'd really enjoy making that meal and eating it. Oh well. I know my limits. Sometimes.
1. Waking up: Do I feel crappy enough to stay home from work today?
a. Yeah, I feel like ass.
b. I dunno, I might feel better after the grogginess from the NyQuil wears off and I've had some coffee and drugs.
IF A:
2. Stay home, take drugs, start to feel better (at least, not as bad symptoms).
3. Wonder if maybe I was well enough to go in after all.
4. Decide that if I'm feeling reasonably ok, I might as well make use of my time at home.
5. Proceed to run errands, clean, do housework, etc.
6. Start feeling like crap again by nighttime due to overexertion because really, I didn't have the energy for all that.
IF B:
2. Go in to work, take drugs, but still feel swimmy-headed and blah.
3. Think, "I'll finish this assignment, then ask to go home early."
4. Take so long finishing that assignment due to swimmy-headed blah-ness that by the time I'm done, there's not much left of the day anyway, so I decide to stick it out until the end.
5. Go home, feel like crap by nighttime due to overexertion because really, I shouldn't have gone in to work.
Now, I'm getting a bit better with the overexertion stuff while I'm actually having really bad symptoms. Sometimes, though stuff just needs doing. Like today, I really needed to do laundry and go to the grocery store, and then I had to put sheets on the bed again after laundry was done. But it wiped me out. Now I think I ought to stay home tomorrow. I still have problems with overexertion when either medicine or the beginnings of healing have me feeling slightly better. But after a day of that, either at work or out of it, I'm right back to crap again. I have to get it through my head that even if I'm feeling a little better, I usually need an extra day of rest while sick, or my colds hang on forever.
At this moment, I'm in a position of not knowing what to do for dinner. I have stuff to make a watermelon-tomato salad and some nice cod, but I think I may just save that for tomorrow night and order in tonight instead. It bugs me because I want healthy food (really, I do!), but I just don't have the energy for prep, cooking, and cleanup right now. It bugs me because if I DID have the energy, I'd really enjoy making that meal and eating it. Oh well. I know my limits. Sometimes.
