Sick days look different in a pandemic
Apr. 19th, 2021 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI awoke this morning and actually forced myself out of bed only 10 minutes after my alarm went off. I was super proud of myself because it looked like I was going to get out there and take Peggy out for exercise! And then the vertigo hit and I nearly fell over. Well, fuck. All was not lost, I told myself. I would take some Serc (that's the anti-vertigo med I have in case I need it), and since I wasn't nauseated I figured I would see if the Serc made the vertigo go away, and tried to carry on with my day. Two minutes later and I was puking what was left of last night's dinner.
At that point I gave it up as a bad job and went back to bed. I tried sleeping it off before work, but that didn't pan out either, so I ended up sleeping most of the morning away. The good news is that once I was up I felt much better, and I just spent the rest of the day chilling with Peggy. I am going to pay for this tomorrow, because I will have to catch up on everything I didn't get done yesterday AND all of last week. Still, an extra day off was nice, even if I did spend at least half of it basically unconscious.
Sick days are weird during a pandemic. Normally when you call in sick to work your place of work isn't allowed to ask about WHY you're taking time off work. At least, not in Canada, because employers are not entitled to your personal medical information (that shit is protected information). Even though that is still in effect, I still feel vaguely compelled to divulge at least part of what's going on, because, well, there's a pandemic happening! And in theory if I or my employees had COVID-19 none of us would be obligated to give that information, but we're asking people to volunteer that information for the purposes of contact tracing and whatnot. It's a weird balancing act of privacy vs public health emergency.
I need to go to bed soon. The problem with getting up late is that your whole day kind of gets shifted late as well, and the next thing you know it's 9pm and nothing has gotten done. Oh well. As the quote goes, tomorrow is another day.
At that point I gave it up as a bad job and went back to bed. I tried sleeping it off before work, but that didn't pan out either, so I ended up sleeping most of the morning away. The good news is that once I was up I felt much better, and I just spent the rest of the day chilling with Peggy. I am going to pay for this tomorrow, because I will have to catch up on everything I didn't get done yesterday AND all of last week. Still, an extra day off was nice, even if I did spend at least half of it basically unconscious.
Sick days are weird during a pandemic. Normally when you call in sick to work your place of work isn't allowed to ask about WHY you're taking time off work. At least, not in Canada, because employers are not entitled to your personal medical information (that shit is protected information). Even though that is still in effect, I still feel vaguely compelled to divulge at least part of what's going on, because, well, there's a pandemic happening! And in theory if I or my employees had COVID-19 none of us would be obligated to give that information, but we're asking people to volunteer that information for the purposes of contact tracing and whatnot. It's a weird balancing act of privacy vs public health emergency.
I need to go to bed soon. The problem with getting up late is that your whole day kind of gets shifted late as well, and the next thing you know it's 9pm and nothing has gotten done. Oh well. As the quote goes, tomorrow is another day.
