Thursday, July 30, 2015

I was still sick


I just didn’t know how sick.

The next morning I still felt pretty bad.  My general rule was always that if I could work and it was safe for me to get back and forth (it was a long drive) I would go in – and try not to infect anyone else.  That usually meant that if I had a fever I stayed home.  The day after I started feeling sick I was already bad enough that I called in sick to work.

I tried to work from home and I did get some things done.  I don’t think it was much and I don’t really remember any of it.

But when I got home from the hospital a little more than two months later I logged on to my work email.  Don’t ask me why because I can’t give you a good explanation, something about work ethic or possibly my mental state.  Whatever.  But it did lead to a very funny moment.

When I checked my email I saw an exchange between me and some folks at work.  They were looking for some documents and hoping that I knew where some backups might be.  It turned out that I did know, I told them and things worked out OK.

The funny part to me is that I don’t remember any of this and I did the whole thing with a 103 fever.

I was barely coherent and no one on the other end knew it.  That struck me as being very funny.  I’m sure it says something about me, but I’m not sure what.

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