How sick have you been and gone to work anyway?

[AlienGirl]

Since the Friday before last, I've had MRSA (methicillin-resistant staph), which a co-worker brought to work a week before, and which infected a spider bite I got at the movie theater. I was out of work all last week because of the pain, but the managers were starting to give me a hard time (they never believe I'm sick, even when I bring doctors' notes) so I bit the bullet on Monday and have been working this week. I'm still in pain, still oozing pus from the wound, and possibly still infectious (though this bug seems to be wild in the community here, so it's not like quarantining myself would keep anyone safer).

This is probably the most pain I've been in and gone to work anyway. I have, a few times, finished a shift after having a blood-sugar-related syncope (fainting), but that's different since I feel better as soon as I eat a Glucotab.

How about you? What's the sickest you've been and still gone to work?

Tucker

[kedrys]

1. Fever? No work

That was back in the day when I worked for someone else. Now that I'm freelancing, I'll sleep off whatever it is, then keep really weird hours to make up.

Hope you feel better soon! :hug:

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Severe sinus infection and bronchitis...

and half on the nod from hydrocodone cough syrup. I was supposed to have the day off, and I'd taken enough cough syrup to reduce my cough AND the pain of a sprung rib (from coughing; worst case of bronchitis I ever had). I got a call telling me I HAD to come in, and my mental state was impaired enough that I gave in after a brief argument...I had to drink a LOT of coffee and take ephedrine to maintain a wakeful balance. Not something I'd do again, that's for sure.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I don't get sick often but

I usually go to work if I don't have a fever. I teach and we rarely get subs and it is really hard for my kids when I am not there. It takes me a day or two to calm them down when I get back. So I go in sick.

If I know I am going to be gone, then I can prepare the kids but if they don't know ahead of time, they don't react well when they walk in and I am gone. One day this past year I had an emergency and came in two hours late and two of my kids had managed to get themselves suspended.

So it is just easier to go in sick.

[jukes]

4. malaria attack

when i was a street cop. partner watched my back.

[Kenneth ken]

5. I've gone to work with a not very bad cold

but if it is a bad cold, I stay home. I went to work a couple times with a really sore back; it was the first couple days of a new job. That took several trips to the Chiro to get things back in place, and have them stay that way.

I had a job where I worked from home, went to work pretty sick then; but it's hard to justify not working if all it takes is being able to sit up, and you can't spread the virus to any one else.

Mostly I posted here to ask about your spider bite. What did the doctor say/give you for it? I hope it heals quickly for you. :hug:

[AlienGirl]

6. He gave me Sulfameth

and I go back in tomorrow to see whether that's enough or whether I will need stronger antibiotics. :scared:

Tucker

[Kenneth ken]

13. best wishes

:hug: again. hard to have too many hugs :)

[AlCzervik]

7. I was having a gallbladder attack and i went to work, at the time

i didn't know it was my gallbladder but i found out after i passed out and my boss took me to the emergency room.

[Not_Giving_Up]

8. I've gone to work with bronchitis

Coughing up a lung, running a fever.

I've also worked with a UTI and a temp of 103.

[AlienGirl]

9. What was the job? nt

[Not_Giving_Up]

12. When I had bronchitis

I worked in Medical Records at a hospital. The UTI, I was working in the office of a manufacturing facility.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Become the managers best friend while you still have a chance

to infect them.

Have lunch with them. Be sure to give 'em a hug in the morning and on the way out the door. Be sure you have that all-important up close conversation with them.

Then watch 'em all take the next month off and leave you in peace.

:rofl:

[aquaman]

11. This is SO a pet peeve of mine....

I become so irritated with people that are sick and contagious and spread it ALL around and then kinda shrug it off "I guess I got everybody sick" type of remark. I totally went off on my boss who came in sick, with Bronchitis, so she found out later. She laughed at me for days about me telling her to go home and said "it's just my allergies." Four people over the next two weeks got bronchitis. I rub it in her face now quite a bit. If you are sick with something that is contagious, stay the hell home.

[AlienGirl]

15. My managers have come close to firing me for being sick

I really don't have a choice; my "excessive absences" would cause them to get rid of me if I stayed home every time I was contagious.

I work in a drugstore, too, so I catch everything sick customers bring in.

Tucker

[Not_Giving_Up]

17. Yeah, that's why I've gone in so sick, too

I just get sick a lot. As a general rule, if I have a fever, I stay home. However, if the boss is throwing fits about my not being there (even when notes from the doctor are provided), then I'll go in sick, and they end up getting it. Serves them right!

[aquaman]

19. Well circumstances are different that is for sure....

My boss is WEALTHY beyond belief and works so she has something to do. In other words, she did not have to be there, I was furious. She was coughing toxic green liquid every ten seconds or so.

[likesmountains 52]

14. worked 2 days with a collapsed lung....thought it was indigestion...n/t

[tibbir]

16. I worked for myself and time not working meant no money coming in.

And I invariably got sick during tax season with bronchitis and sinusitis. I'd work until the laryngitis was so bad I couldn't use the telephone and then I'd get an antibiotic and take a couple of days off.

[Elidor]

18. Sorry to hear of your ordeal

I hope you heal quickly!

I work in publishing, so even the flu is no excuse to miss Deadline Day. I once worked 15 hours with fever and nausea. But I got the damn paper out. Without me there is no paper.