Sick days are over-rated...
Sick days are over-rated, when you feel too bad to do anything on your supposed "day off".
That was my experience during the "lost week" that just passed, three of those days relegated to suffering under phlegm, headache (which I never have), and no energy.
At first, it seems like a break. Wow, I don't have to go into work. I can read the paper, including sports, at my leisure. I don't have to grab it, throw it in the car, and race to work to be on time.
Maybe watch a little MLB Network on Channel 306, my current favorite since Spring Training and with our second cable outlet allowing convenient viewing in another part of the house.
But then, as you would have it, feeling "a little better" means doing more activity than you can sustain. The next day, you find yourself back in bed, with more phlegm and feeling worse than the day before.
What was kind of comical was having the cleaning lady come the second day. That meant getting out of the house. Feeling miserable parked in the car somewhere isn't better than feeling miserable at home. At least, at home you can lie down when you're hacking and feeling terrible.
Meantime, there wasn't even a thought of going to an LJHS sports event and taking photos. Now, that takes a big cold to bring that.
The one time slipping out to sports was a pre-arranged interview of a high school athlete (not even from LJ) for a local newspaper. I had to do it.
Finally, after the second day back at work at the end of the week, it meant photo-taking at a boys lacrosse game, away at Point Loma. The fresh breeze wasn't too cold, though Point Loma can get really chilly when the fog rolls in.
But the present heat meant no fog in the late afternoon, and portended for a nice 13-3 clobbering of the Pointers on their own artificial turf.
Copyright 2015 Ed Piper
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