Working Sick

RBnSC

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Most of My life I always figured if I am going to feel bad I might as well be a work if at all possible. Being self employed sometimes I don't have a choice. I have had a cold all week and just kept my self medicated enough to make it through most of the days till 2 or 3 in the afternoon and went home because of the heat. Today I stayed home instead of helping my brother pick corn. What do yall do.
Ron
 
Those summer colds are the worst.. Really take a toll on me. I almost always get my worst cold of the year in August. Luckily, if I go one more day, I missed this year.
 
RB-You should try eating onions, garlic, horseradish sauce, (natural sickness fighters) and some of the other foods that have substances in them that keep you healthy.
Can't hurt-I hardly ever get a cold and eat lots of this stuff.
 
Seems like you don't get vary many vacation days at these jobs now days. And if a place allows you sick time, they make you have a note from doctor for that to come into play. I like to use my vacation days for what it is intended, vacation. I don't like to burn a vacation day for being sick. I go to work, unless I go to the doctor and I gotta be about dead before I go to the doctor. Very rare occasion for me to burn a vacation day for being sick, not go to doctor, can't use sick time.
 
There simply isn't anyone else to do my farm work, so no matter what I have to take care of the animals.

I work a part-time job off the farm and do it on a salaried, contract basis. I wouldn't dare miss a day of work lest the owners of the company realize that they can get along without me!

Fortunately, I'm virtually never sick.

Tom in TN
 
I was working in a factory sick the supervisor told me take two days off he said i show up when sick and others dont and i was making others sick by showing up sick.
Saying that had rotator cuff and bicep done last fall four hours after surgery feeding cattle and did i get chewed out by therpist for cutting with a chainsaw with an arm in a sling
 

When I worked at my factory job. I would go to work feeling bad. We had sick days. Looking back it did me no good at all. In a large corporation, I was just a number on a page, with hundreds of others. Stan
 
When I was working for the government I received 13 days of sick leave each year. If you didn't use any leave you could let it accumulate. I had over 3000 hours when I retired. They just added that to my years of service. One of my co-workers told me never to abuse the sick leave.

I also received 26 days of annual leave after 15 years of service each year. I had 90 days of leave accumulated when I retired and they sent a separate check. Hal
 
Yes, but can your co-workers stand to be around you? (Just kidding)
I eat jalapeno peppers and take fish oil and nobody has complained about me yet. Knock on wood, I've been healthy.
 

Before I started irrigating. I used to get sinus infections a lot. When sick I could go out and do a route even if I had to stop between steps when bringing product in off the truck. What i couldn't do though was paper work, there was no physical movement to remove the bad feeling.
 
Like I have had any choice?? Most of my life I have been the only one who could do the milking chores. Now my oldest son farms with me, and we spell each other off. But, because we work together, and eat together , every day, if one of us gets a cold, the other guy has it in a day or two any way. So we just work on. Bruce
 
I have always been told if i wasnt dead get up and go to work. And that goes for the weekends also even if it was just yard work. Actually just today woke up with a sour stomach and had garden stuff and yard work to do. I mean it started soon as i got up. Made it to the barn to feed up and do a couple things then back home for some yard work. Felt like my stomach was in knots. Was working on the irrigation in the yard when Lets just say never trust a fart when you have a sour stomach. Yep a change in cloths and another shower then back in the yard. You just grimice when the pain hits and keep going. I do believe working and sweating helps alot. Maybe its the just keeping moving of the body helps heck i dont no. But at my age i know asprin and pepto are my friends LOL. So to answer your question Keep working dont let the whatever sickness see fear!!!!!!!!!
 
I do what needs done around the farm, but if you work around lots of other people I fell it's rather rude to go to work.
 
I am just about over a cold now. Someone who shall remain nameless gave it to me. There's no one else to do all of the farm work so I muscle through it. I did get just a little testy when we were pouring concrete Monday. I got asked why I was so short with answers. My response was, "remember that cold that kept you in the house moaning for two days and near deaths door? I have it now including the fever and joint aches. The fact that I am carrying 80 pound bags of cement doesn't make it better." It was quieter after that.

I really would rather work through it. If I am busy there's a chance I will forget about it for a bit. I also can't stand to sit while it is daylight (unless I am in the tractor).
 
Boss" Daughter made a big speach Jan. 1st. about Don"t come in to work sick.

She was the only one who drug in to work sick with a cold all year. . . .
 
I work in an office and they really don't want sick folks there infecting the rest of the building (over 5,000 people in just my building). We have a pretty generous pot of time off to use for vacation or sick days and they expect you to use it.
 
I have been fighting a cold for over a week now,my shortest work day was 10hr. If I still have it Friday I ll ask the Doctor(annual physical)
 
I had pefect attendance for 30 years in my factory job. I went to work sicker than a dog many times. Looking back, I would have stayed home more...
 
I watch my father work his hole life never called in sick, even when us kids were born he went to work. He was a telephone lineman, I spent many hours riding along/waiting for him to get done with work. Many of the people he worked with called in sick all the time. Dad is old school maybe not as old as many on this site.. But Vietnam Era Vet. Later in life when he saw the company he gave his life to get sold and push him out, he told me to use sick leave if you have it, because it in the end you will not get anything for it. I started my career path as a Power Lineman never called in sick, later was offered a position which I remain presently as a Proud Union Representative!! It seems now days sick leave is in trouble because people don't use it for being sick.. So the company capitalizes on this by changing to PTO (paid time off) sick leave,vacation, funeral leave... And so on...what a joke...
I also grew up farming even though I didn't grow up on one being sick was not a option... I guess in the end. I don't know what is the right answer? New workers are very fragile...yes.. But most companies could careless... Troubling...
 
If your tired then your body will NOT heel as fast as it could. I worked many days when I should not have but I did not have any choice then. As soon as I had some back up I used them. It turned a week or two of feeling bad and doing sub pare work into a few days of recovery.

Get some REST!!! You will feel better faster.
 
Being self employed I've got to be near deaths door before I don't work. That's not to say I won't sleep in and not get started until later than usual, or that I can jump right in and get started like I normally do, but I still go. The funny thing is once I get started I usually feel a lot better than I did when I was lying around the house feeling bad... I don't know what it is, but unless I have planned the day off to do nothing (and even then that is a hard thing for me to do) I absolutely can not stand to hand around inside when the sun is shining.
 
Well, I'm generally healthy although I can always shed a pound. About two weeks ago while working a job, out of nowhere it was as though someone punched me square in the throat. Oh oh, cold coming on. Starve a cold feed a fever, or ffed a cold stave a fever? I can't remember. But what has always worked for me, except this time, is garlic for a cold. Years ago I had a friend that actually is a Chicago Blackhawk hockey player, and I had a lingering cold that I was taking Sudafed for long before the whole drug flap over it, and after about 3 days of taking it, I ran into him and he said, "...if it hasn't worked after 3 days, it aint going to, so try 2 teaspoons of crushed garlic twice a day", and I didn't screw around and took 2 heaping tablespoons for about a day and a half, and it was gone. Nobody, especially hot chicks would get within several feet of me fopr a couple of days because I stunk so bad, but it was worth it for a couple or few days to get rid of a cold.

This time though was different. I was working at a 9-1-1 center out of state, and out of nowhere its as though someone hit me in the throat with either end of a maul. I felt it real time as it started, and "...whoa, this isn't going to end well...". I went out and bought jars of crushed/chopped garlic, and usually two are good...half in the morning, half at night, half next morning, half next night...tops, is good. Not this time, two weeks ago. I'm working out of town, come home, and my family tells me that air conditioning whould dry me out, close the windows and turn on the air. The past two nights, like a Michigan double bit axe over my right eye, that's how bad the sinus headaches are. Last night I sneak downstairs, close off the upstairs, shut off the air downstairs, open the windows, 4 Tylenol cold something or other, can breath, headache gone. Tonight, RIGHT NOW, same thing. Headache so bad that I sneak downstairs, am rlling around n the floor in imenese, excruciating pain, rolling around on the floor, twisting and turning, doing flip flops, asking myself should I go to the ER, drinking half a fifth of Jack Black to knock myself out cold so as not to wake anyone eles up (and I joke about drinking but usually, rarely drink anymore) with zero affect on me, and shut down the air and open the windows, and my severe sinus headache away. Right now, as I write this, my sinuses are a little stopped up, headache is gone, and the rest of the family is aound asleep.

To your question? Bite the bullet as best you can, save money wherever you can, don't involve the family whenever you can avoid it. Right now, I can breath...no headache, no hangover, my family is sound asleep. Air conditioning does NOT help my first in decades, Summer cold. Tomorrow? I have to go out and figure out why the little Allis B runs half a second and dies when I start it and go to mow the lawn. Carb is my guess. Tonight though, am going to sleep in the basement, comfortably with a fan blowinh fresh air on me.

Mark
 
(quoted from post at 14:37:58 08/30/14) RB-You should try eating onions, garlic, horseradish sauce, (natural sickness fighters) and some of the other foods that have substances in them that keep you healthy.
Can't hurt-I hardly ever get a cold and eat lots of this stuff.

The reason you don't get sick is because you stink like pure rank nasty if you eat a bunch of that.

No one will be near you and you can't pick up their germs!!!

I do it too. actually, if I don't bathe for 3 weeks, eat a bunch of garlic and onions and cabbage, then no one will come near me. I win! game over...




I went 3 months without a bath or shower. I wore 2 pairs of underwear and 4 changes of clothes in that time. same socks the whole time.

I won. no one would deal with me, I didn't get sick. I felt better working after 5 weeks. didn't sweat bad, got a lot done, and the IRS kept away...


It's not that bad. try it!
 
btdt and burnt the shirt ...over 40 yrs ago I started home improvement biznez to go along with hog farmin ,, all went well til I got very successful ,,had a lot of jobs to do , lot of hired help ,,,and I had to be there to work,at the very least supervise.. the diverse weather conditions would cause head colds , the hog barn would too ,, and I loved the hogs more than babysitting the guys ...but I had too successful a biznez to guit driving nails ,,,so I medicated myself,. kept Dayquil in the work truk , antihistamine,,and early times in the hawg house ,,many nites I would be grindin feed under the security lites ,,blowing crud out of my nose . , get in at 11 pm, get up a 6 am , and not think nuthin of it , my guys and wife used to think I thrived on the pace ,,, I dunnno,. but each yr. my colds and sinus problems would get worse and worse and last longer until the spring sunshine ,the cold medicine probably caused serveral falls I took,. to the point the hogs lost out ,,than the marriage ,, and I was still sick , and now I was older...somehow thru the grace of GOD I have survived ,, my son took the home improvement biznez,, and is doing well with it ,,,occassionaly he tells me his troubles and I Easily relate and empathize,,. I tell him ,, that you can work 24/7 and never meet the need out there ,, so just as well charge what the market will bear ,,.
 

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