Sick Days

While I still haven't actually resigned from the job I have from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST (though I live in the Central time zone), I have been on PTO, paid time off, for the last three days due to ice. I am off tomorrow also. Everything here is basically skeletal or shut down completely due to ice and there have even been a few days without mail. The mantra remember says something about rain or sleet or hail, but doesn't include 2 inches of ice.

In Fort Worth we do not have snow plows or salt trucks or prepare the highways first with brine. When there is snow or ice, there is snow or ice until the sun - the blessed, blessed sun comes out and takes it all away. This is scheduled for Saturday. We are all very excited. Though we may not venture far in effort to avoid Super Bowl hype and traffic, a trip out somewhere is definitely in order.

Because of this shut down, my husband, the wonderful man that he is, has been home with me for this adventure in cabin fever. This is a good thing because today I had the worst headache/migraine in my existence on the planet earth. I was quite literally laying on the couch in a stupor watching the world go by and not realizing it existed. At one point I swear I could feel the rotation of the earth. I was asleep and yet awake in a haze of medicines that weren't helping, praying for some sort of relief. 2 Sudafed, 2 Advil, 1 dose of nasal spray, the use of a Neti pot and a can of Coke later, I felt human. Drugged up human, but human none the less.

This is where having my husband here was really helpful. Did I mention he was wonderful? He worked for his company and juggled the constant requests for juice, assistance with paints, play-doh and help with movies as if there were not a useless blob resembling his wife there on the couch.

I have no idea what happens should this happen again once I embark on my new career, but I imagine my 2 new bosses will not care any more than my old ones did about the fact that I am sick. I guess I'll have to think of a get sick plan where I have lots of calm activities to do in the event I'm not feeling so great.