It's cold outside...

[lnr]

I have a cold. On Monday I was very bunged up, with a sore throat and feeling grim. On Tuesday I was snotty, blowing my nose every five minutes. Today I'm a bit less runny-nosed but coughing. I've had a mild headache on and off all week, and I'm knackered.

I don't have a fever and it's certainly not the flu. I get the impression quite a few people would go into work in this state: "it's only a cold". What do you think? [Poll #1287169]

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

I tend to worry more about whether or not I feel well enough to work/whether I'd get stuff done rather than whether I'll be spreading germs. I'm never quite sure how easy it is to pass colds on, anyway, unless you're in very close proximity to your colleagues. Certainly I always seem to generate my own colds, I don't seem to catch other people's.

A fortnight ago I took some time off work with a cold, but I didn't actually feel all that ill. It was just that my nose was running - quite literally - continuously, which meant that I always needed one hand busy with a tissue. This made typing (or concentrating) pretty difficult, so I just gave up and went back to bed.

Working-from-home is pretty much the ideal option if that's available to you.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I think a cold is like chicken pox, you are infectious before you get all the symptoms, so you got a cold from somebody who has only just started to feel ill themselves.

venta is clearly radiating a field of typos at me today, whenever I have replied to her I have spelt something wrong.