tessa55454
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Their has been times that I am hacking so hard that I volunteer myself to stay home. For one reason, I know that I looked like I am going to kill over. I am not going to, but sometimes it looks like it. Sometimes it's just really hard to start talking to someone relative to my job, and then start coughing and try to excuse myself for a minute or several. IT's really hard to be smooth with that. Then i look like I am gasping for air, which in a sense I am, but again it looks worse than it is.
I have gone to work when I am on the tail end of it. Luckily I am only barfing/coughing for a few days, hoping days when I am not working. I felt bad because I was on the tale end of a cold and still coughing but less than before. I was working with someone new, and on the first day she ws there she kept asking me if I was o.k. I just say that it sounds contagious, but I am on an antiobiotic, it's fine (as I am gasping for air again) She says, "It's like you have Cystic Fibrosis or something." I am like, "ahh...that would be it."
She felt bad because it's like saying the worse case scenerio thing. Like, "your liver isn't going to explode right?" "why yes, it is. Just watching the ticker. "
uhm..far as being sent home. I would probably have a problem with that. It is so hard because it's not your job to take care of others needs, but on the other hand you are working with people in a space, and they may or may not understand why you are coughing. a lot of times I think people are concerned, but it may come off badly.
I would have to consult someone or a human resources person if it happened to me. It's just another stupid humanistic thing we have to deal with. Trying to function normally, when sometimes you just can't. People are dumb.
on one hand, it could be kind of fun to scare people. hee..hee.... HOld it against them, and say "you would like to know what I have." At least that would be going through my inside voice, maybe sometimes outside.
Sorry that happend. Again, people are dumb. Dealing with dumb again. It's annoying.
Tessa 28 w/cf
I have gone to work when I am on the tail end of it. Luckily I am only barfing/coughing for a few days, hoping days when I am not working. I felt bad because I was on the tale end of a cold and still coughing but less than before. I was working with someone new, and on the first day she ws there she kept asking me if I was o.k. I just say that it sounds contagious, but I am on an antiobiotic, it's fine (as I am gasping for air again) She says, "It's like you have Cystic Fibrosis or something." I am like, "ahh...that would be it."
She felt bad because it's like saying the worse case scenerio thing. Like, "your liver isn't going to explode right?" "why yes, it is. Just watching the ticker. "
uhm..far as being sent home. I would probably have a problem with that. It is so hard because it's not your job to take care of others needs, but on the other hand you are working with people in a space, and they may or may not understand why you are coughing. a lot of times I think people are concerned, but it may come off badly.
I would have to consult someone or a human resources person if it happened to me. It's just another stupid humanistic thing we have to deal with. Trying to function normally, when sometimes you just can't. People are dumb.
on one hand, it could be kind of fun to scare people. hee..hee.... HOld it against them, and say "you would like to know what I have." At least that would be going through my inside voice, maybe sometimes outside.
Sorry that happend. Again, people are dumb. Dealing with dumb again. It's annoying.
Tessa 28 w/cf
