Reply to: Working when ill

[dang65]

Bloody hell.

I think that heart attacks can vary hugely in seriousness. I had a blocked artery, which they fixed with a stent via keyhole surgery (angioplasty), and that was about it. I've felt fine since. A nasty cold is much worse.

But they can be very serious, yes. Fatally serious. I was very lucky.

[MaryPoppins]

I had two days off work last year after I had a heart attack. I'd only just started a new contract, so I told the client I had a nasty chest infection. Got away with it. Haven't had another heart attack, so far.

Bloody hell.

[Bunk]

Thats a proper contractor

Not really, he took two days off. MF would have sat at his desk, had the heart attack, and carried on invoicing. And probably won his cage-fight that evening.

[ThomasSoerensen]

I had two days off work last year after I had a heart attack. I'd only just started a new contract, so I told the client I had a nasty chest infection. Got away with it. Haven't had another heart attack, so far.

Thats a proper contractor

[SueEllen]

I had two days off work last year after I had a heart attack. I'd only just started a new contract, so I told the client I had a nasty chest infection. Got away with it. Haven't had another heart attack, so far.

[dang65]

I had two days off work last year after I had a heart attack. I'd only just started a new contract, so I told the client I had a nasty chest infection. Got away with it. Haven't had another heart attack, so far.

[SueEllen]

I slept ok during the night and this morning I am much better. I am still not 100% but close and a an aspirin for breakfast has reduced the headache to a bearable level.

You know you are allowed to take ibuprofen then paracetamol at the same time?

So you can take a dose of ibuprofen then a couple of hours later take a dose of paracetamol and alternate until you hit the daily dose limits.*

Anyway if you can eat you are well enough to go to work...........

*My GP and a few other doctors who work in different specialisms told me this to manage pain from sports injuries and bad colds.

[MaryPoppins]

I slept ok during the night and this morning I am much better. I am still not 100% but close and a an aspirin for breakfast has reduced the headache to a bearable level.

Big girl's blouse.

[ThomasSoerensen]

When I came home yesterday my wife informed me that based on her online searches and gossiping with the other mums from the school she had diagnosed me with Swineflu!!!!!

I told her she was not a doctor and that my friend Darmstadt had just endured and survived similar ill-feeling and I credit him with more credibility than her.

I went on to rest/sleep untill dinner time, wake up feeling better and eat 3 delicious home made hamburgers for dinner. During the evening I was resting and still feeling a bit bad and cold but better all the time.

I slept ok during the night and this morning I am much better. I am still not 100% but close and a an aspirin for breakfast has reduced the headache to a bearable level.

I am now in the office, no need to lose billable time, and I feel much better.

You can all stop worrying that I might die

I will be fine.

[darmstadt]

I was like that last week. Went in on Wednesday feeling fine, come later on in the day it got worse and worse with my co-workers commenting on the fact. Went back to the hotel feeling like tulip and had a crap nights sleep. Decided to knock the day on the head so called in and told them I was going home. The problem with that is that it involved a few hundred kilometer drive. Was better enough to go shopping on the Friday (instead of project no. 2 who rang me wanting to know where I was) and the pub on Saturday until Sunday. Back at work on the Monday, fighting fit...

(I don't really taking sickies but in this case I decided it was better for all concerned. I share an office with 3 other people and we're pretty busy on an important project, well they are and I would have felt bad if they were ill the next week. I'm considerate like that)

[Spacecadet]

I'm not sure how but I've developed a technique for being able to postpone illness till the weekend.

Last time it happened about 3 weeks ago, I spent all week feeling rough bad enough to complain that i felt like I was coming down with something but not rough enough to justify taking time off sick.
As soon as saturday came... BANG I was laid up till Monday morning

[Mich the Tester]

Some of us are hired to do work more mentally challenging than catching a train. Or so I've heard.

You poor fellow. Can't you get pills for that?

[d000hg]

If you can safely travel to and from the client site then you can work.

Some of us are hired to do work more mentally challenging than catching a train. Or so I've heard.

[jmo21]

(to the house where there is a poorly 2 daughters and 1 wife also feeling poorly) or do you stay in the office to invoice and enjoy the calm you will not have if you return home?

This would ensure I went to work tomorrow too.

Really it depends what's happening at work.

If I have a really important meeting or deadline then I'll try pretty hard to stay.

[jmo21]

1. Convince them that you need to work from home for the rest of the day.
2. Invent a meeting that you'll be busy in all afternoon and just head home.
3. Just go home and bill anyway, if it's a big enough client they probably won't notice. For added realism, leave your coat/phone behind so they assume you're still in the building.

I like the cut of your jib!