For the last four and a half days I have been trapped indoors. My body screamed at me, “I need to rest!” The battle began with an aching throat and the loss of my voice. When I refused to submit, my body caused my eyes to tear so much I had to close them; and filled my sinus passages with mucus. My body won and I lay in bed and rested.
As I opened the curtains in the living room yesterday, I longed to be outside in the mild Fall weather we are currently experiencing. By late afternoon, I was bored: I had had my fill of Netflixing and of my current read. My mind kept filling with images of what I wanted to do with my class regarding our pumpkin inquiry. I knew then that I was ready to go back to work.
So today I go back. I am not 100% my healthy self, but I feel I need to return to the environment and the people I have chosen to work with everyday.
Do you stay at home until you are 100% healthy before going back to work?
© Colline Kook-Chun, 2017
I hate, hate being sick – I’m a bit ADHD and have to be doing stuff – so I understand. I hope you feel better!
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Thank you Trent. I enjoy relaxing – but enforced relaxation is not for me!
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I hope you’re completely healed soon. Enjoy your first day back!
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Oh, I did. I missed being in my classroom. And my SNA was very happy to have me back 🙂
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Sorry you have ill. Keep on recovering.
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Thank you. I fell so much better today than I did five days ago.
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Taking time off was always a double edged sword, Colline. I always worried about the pile of work I’d go back to. Hope you’re fully fit soon. 🙂 🙂
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That is what I feel too Jo. And the work you have to do to catch up makes you wish you had not been sick at all!
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Hope you’re feeling better now- exhausted all over again?
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A little bit. I am hoping the weekend will sort it out though.
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Good to hear you are getting better. Take it easy and get well 😊
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Thank you so much Mabel 🙂
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I hope you continue to feel better and better with each day ❤
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Thank you so much Christy 🙂
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My kindest regards Colline, hope you are recovering and feeling much better, feeling sick is quite depressing when your mind is active.
Enjoy your Fall, think that means Spring, not sure, we have Summer here, very hot, fluctuating between floods and high temperatures into the mid 30s.
Cheers and Best wishes.
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It is Ian – and all I want to do is get up and follow my routine 🙂
Fall is what the North Americans call Autumn. It took me a while to get used to that label as well.
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Glad to hear you are on the mend. I hope by the time you read this, you will be back to 100%.
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I am Michelle – and I am frantically trying to catch up on the time I missed 🙂
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Take it easy as you return to the work you love.
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Thank you 🙂 The last few days have been good.
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