Occupational Hazard

Working at an urgent care has its perks. Like free medical care whenever I need anything. I mean that's pretty freakin' sweet. The downside is how much I actually utilize it.

Last night I ended up leaving work and going home sick. Which I don't think I have ever done in the three years I have been there. Besides calling in when I blew my back out & when my sister in law passed away. I am a pretty loyal employee.

Any who, I woke up yesterday with a horrible neck, body and headache and just assumed it was from working my retail job & being on my feet all day. I work maybe one shift every 1-2 weeks because of my availability. My body has not gotten used to standing and running around for 6 hours. As soon as I got to work I took a shot of ibuprofen and it took the edge off but didn't help my overall discomfort.   Around 5 once the medicine started to wear off I felt like absolute shit. So, I went and took another shot. After an hour or so I was still sweating & sore and just miserable so I went and took my temp. Shocker, I was running a low grade temp. Which means if I wasn't on ibuprofen it would be higher. No wonder I wasn't feeling so great. I went back to talk with the doc that was on & she told me I caught that flu that has been plaguing our office. Even people who got this seasons flu shot are coming up positive for influenza.

I texted some co workers & luckily one said they would come in & close up the urgent care for me. Thank God. I went & picked up my fur baby and headed straight home, changed into my pj's and laid on the couch. Of course, come bed time, I am wide awake & feeling even worse. I managed to fall asleep for a wee bit & then woke up a few hours later with nausea and some other stomach issues. Wonderful. Like I always do when I am sick, I grabbed my pillow, DT (dirty t-shirt- my dads old t-shirt that I have been sleeping with for YEARS), and a bowl and went and laid on the couch. I always feel bad getting up out of bed 5,000 times because I don't want to disturb Joey. So most of the time I just go sleep on the couch when I am sick. I spent about 40 minutes hovering the porcelain God with no action, just severe nausea. I retreated to the couch with my bowl praying over and over I wouldn't get sick. It worked. I didn't. I just spent my night on the couch and woke up this morning with more stomach issues and a headache.

Today, I guess I will just lay around and try and come up with more creative blog ideas besides writing about how lame patients spread the influenza.