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Spent the weekend feeling gloriously craptacular (this may seem like a contradiction in terms, but trust me, once you feel bad enough you start taking a perverse sort of pride in your symptoms).
Felt moderately better so headed in to work this morning.
Got told by my supervisor to buzz off home, they were not interested in catching whatever it was I had thankyouverymuch. Also had one guy walk cheerfully up to me and say "So, you ready to do some work for... um... you look horrible", which I thanked him for. So I phoned my doctor, got told that he had no appointments free until next week, told my symptoms to his nurse and got told to go to the flu clinic at the hospital.
Went to flu clinic. Got told they weren't going to test me for swine flu (because I don't seem to be in any danger of actually keeling over, and the testing centers are swamped), but I am basically quarantined until at least Friday - I'm not allowed to go back to work until I've had 24 hours symptom-free.
Toddled off home. Got phone call from my supervisor as I walked in the door. "Hi, Mel, um, you know [coworker who also was being sent home for being flu-ey today]? His son's tested positive for swine flu..."
So now I need to get myself privately tested so that my nice new workplace knows whether they need to turn the flu alert level up to Neon or just Fuschia. :P
Felt moderately better so headed in to work this morning.
Got told by my supervisor to buzz off home, they were not interested in catching whatever it was I had thankyouverymuch. Also had one guy walk cheerfully up to me and say "So, you ready to do some work for... um... you look horrible", which I thanked him for. So I phoned my doctor, got told that he had no appointments free until next week, told my symptoms to his nurse and got told to go to the flu clinic at the hospital.
Went to flu clinic. Got told they weren't going to test me for swine flu (because I don't seem to be in any danger of actually keeling over, and the testing centers are swamped), but I am basically quarantined until at least Friday - I'm not allowed to go back to work until I've had 24 hours symptom-free.
Toddled off home. Got phone call from my supervisor as I walked in the door. "Hi, Mel, um, you know [coworker who also was being sent home for being flu-ey today]? His son's tested positive for swine flu..."
So now I need to get myself privately tested so that my nice new workplace knows whether they need to turn the flu alert level up to Neon or just Fuschia. :P
