I knew that i shouldn't have gone in to work yesterday. The rest of my family had already gone down with a nasty virus which brings a very unpleasant combination of diarrohea, fever and vomitting...but i felt ok, i said, and went to work even though i was feeling quite under the weather.

As the morning wore on, i felt increasingly unwell and by lunchtime had decided to go home. I was feeling awful and knew that my bed was the best place for me.

Today i awoke from an eighteen hour sleep. Yes, eighteen hours, not slumbering or dozing but fully unconscious sleep. I must have needed it but i still feel very washed-out and somewhat dizzy, the only food i've consumed in the last 48 hours is one banana and a slice of toast but still i don't feel hungry.

My boss called my house while i was still asleep asking why i hadn't phoned-in sick, to which my wife responded: i'd have thought it was obvious that he was ill seeing as he came home early yesterday feeling very sick, i've been ill and so have our boys, we are all still very unwell today.

He muttered that it was only polite for an employee to phone the office if he was going to be absent that day...even an employee who has taken at most only one or two days off sick for each of his fifteen years employment with the firm.

Would i have received unbounded praise or gratitude if i had turned up for work feeling so ill? Would i be treated any better than those who seem to take sickies on a predictably regular basis?

I can live with having my manners called into question when i feel barely alive, my P's nd Q's tend to suffer when i feel like shit.
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