Well, my fun is over. I'm feeling well enough to go back to work tonight. Still not 100%, but close enough to 95% to head in.
...wow. Glad I just checked the layoff message. No, I'm not laid off, but several other people are.
This was quite an eye-opening experience. The first time I've been sick like this in a while, and as far as I can tell, it was just a cold. Judging by my entry from last Wednesday, I first started to show signs of this last Tuesday. I wasn't able to head it off by taking my home remedy at the first appearance of symptoms because I wasn't about to slug back some alcohol on a work day. My trip to Allentown on Thursday and my all-day adventure with my mom on Friday didn't help matters. By Friday afternoon I was completely sick, and by Saturday I felt like utter crap, complete with the worst sore throat I can ever remember having.
Sunday I felt a little bit better, enough to get out and about - to church (I lurked in the back to avoid close contact with others), a bookstore, a home improvement store, and an arts & crafts store to buy a model Allosaurus. (Hey, some things in life are important.)
All this may have made things worse, and by Sunday evening I was feeling lousy again. I pre-emptively called off for Monday night. (I had been scheduled for overtime for Sunday, but that was cancelled.)
Today I feel better. Maybe I'll change my mind in the next few hours, but I think I'll be going to work tonight. Then there's just Wednesday night, and then five days off, barring any overtime for which I may have been mandated.
Waning gibbous, February 20, 2022, 3:45 AM
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