[vexborg]

So here I am, sitting at work with a massive cold.

Having a light fever, freezing and sweating, body aching, headache, nose blocked...

Why you might ask, well, all my collegues have the day off and I'm the only who can cover my country line (nobody else speaks Danish)

Man, I can't wait until I can get home and get a hot toddy and some sleep! But that'll only happen in 2 hours time.

[alligator]

Sorry to hear that. Just remember that cold only last a short while, and hopefully you will feel better soon. I feel for 'ya.

[bstone]

Originally Posted by vexborg 

So here I am, sitting at work with a massive cold.

Having a light fever, freezing and sweating, body aching, headache, nose blocked...

Why you might ask, well, all my collegues have the day off and I'm the only who can cover my country line (nobody else speaks Danish)

Man, I can't wait until I can get home and get a hot toddy and some sleep! But that'll only happen in 2 hours time.

While I have not yet started medical school and my advice should not be considered equavilant to that of a physician, I might suggest you don't have a cold.

You have the flu. Typically, colds don't present with body ache and fever.

I refer you to this flow chart, Cold and Flu -- familydoctor.org

feel better.

[cjrivera]

Originally Posted by bstone 

While I have not yet started medical school and my advice should not be considered equavilant to that of a physician, I might suggest you don't have a cold.

You have the flu. Typically, colds don't present with body ache and fever.

I refer you to this flow chart, Cold and Flu -- familydoctor.org

feel better.

Nice call...

I was thinking the same thing.

vexborg, if you're really feeling rotten, you may consider getting checked out by your doctor, if these symptoms have been going on for less than 48hours. If you test positive for Influenza (usually a nose swab) and it's been less than 48hours, there is a treatment that may help alleviate the length and severity of symptoms.

Of course, if it's been longer than 48hrs, then the medicine usually doen't help, or if the symptoms are tolerable, then you wouldn't ave to go either.

Hope you feel better....

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by bstone 

I refer you to this flow chart, Cold and Flu -- familydoctor.org

feel better.

Bookmarked and email the link to my wife.

Thanks!

[vexborg]

Thanks all, today I have a headache, all my joints are sore, my nose is running all the time and to top it off, I've also now got a nasty phlemmy cough...

So I think it's doctor time!

Eitherthat, or I'll just keel over in my bed and sleep?

[andi*pandi]

welcome to my last month and a half.

[bstone]

I have been told and have heard that when you have the flu sleeping and getting as much rest as possible is super important.

Time for a doctor appointment, but you might be too late into the flu to get any medicinal assistance.

[marden]

The O.P. is excepted due to circumstances, but everyone else should give the following some thought.

People who come to work with contagious diseases are doing NO ONE a favor. Stay your sick asses home.

If you're sick, stay home, B.C. bosses say
Peter Wilson, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, December 02, 2006

Wheezing and coughing and blowing your bright red and congested nose in the workplace is frowned upon -- if not outright sneezed at -- by bosses in British Columbia, according to two new national surveys of employers and employees.
A whopping 92 per cent of B.C. employers surveyed -- far above the national average of 76 per cent -- told Decima Research that they prefer employees stay home when they're sick.

In turn, 63 per cent of those sniffling, snorting and feverish B.C. employees -- and we know they're all telling the truth about how sick they are (cough, cough) -- say they don't feel the least bit guilty about phoning in and taking a day off.

That's the highest percentage in Canada, along with an equal number of guilt-free -- and no doubt highly contagious -- respondents in Alberta.
Not surprisingly, we're also the most bothered by colleagues who turn up shivering and shaking at work, with 57 per cent of us saying it concerns us, in the survey carried out for the makers of Benylin.

That contrasts starkly with Quebec, where only 33 per cent are worried about viruses or germs flying through the air.

Another stat that puts B.C. right up there with the health good guys shows that 88 per cent of employers here believe that people return better able to work after taking time off, although the figure for Ontario managers is 94 per cent.

And 25 per cent of them don't believe that employees call in sick more than they used to in the past. That's also the highest in the country.

Despite all the employer benevolence expressed in the survey, 24 per cent of B.C. respondents said they can tell their boss is annoyed when they phone in.
Across the country, 46 per cent of employees surveyed said they had taken no sick days in the past year, and 62 per cent said they would have to be severely ill before they would miss a single day of work.

The survey is accurate within plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Ontario-based family physician Dr. Nayana Suchak said in an interview that she was happily surprised by the survey results.
"Now I can tell my patients that they don't need to feel as guilty taking a day off," said Suchak. "With 86 per cent of employers realizing that taking a sick day improves productivity, now I can perhaps persuade my patients to not feel so bad."

She said that the people who feel they should go on and on regardless are suffering from what she described as "that leftover workplace mentality, that 'presenteeism', which is something residual from the 1980s and hopefully we're moving more to an understanding of a work/life balance."
She added that it will take some people more than a single day to recover.

"Certainly taking a day off work will improve your chances of recovering more quickly," said Suchak. "Some people may need longer off of work, and some may do fine with just that amount of time if you nip it in the bud earlier in the illness.

"But, over all, I think the point here is that it's becoming more and more acceptable to take a day off work. I think bosses are realizing that bed rest affects the bottom line."

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If you're sick, stay home, B.C. bosses say

[Rumor]

Originally Posted by marden 

The O.P. is excepted due to circumstances, but everyone else should give the following some thought.

People who come to work with contagious diseases are doing NO ONE a favor. Stay your sick asses home.



Continues at link.

If you're sick, stay home, B.C. bosses say

Yea, but it sounded like he couldn't take the day off since no one else spoke Dutch.

[andi*pandi]

perhaps the folks in BC also have more paid sick days than some of us.