Yuck! Sorry to hear you are sick. I know what you mean about the label and having people assume that every time you are sick it is related to PTSD.

I have found it is in my best interest to keep some things out of work...and I work in human service so they aren't as judgmental as other professions.

I agree with what someone said on your other post. Get a doctor's note.

Please take the time you need to heal. Sending you good thoughts for health!

Yes, I got a note thanks for following the advice here. Im home on antibiotics mending for a few days like a regular person, thanks to you guys!

I'm so sorry you're sick, Muji, and/but glad you got some help.

I can't help wondering, though: I presume -- with your kidney function -- antibiotics aren't a wonderful thing, but that the risk:reward equation means you need to take them ??

Feel better ... real soon. Y'hear ? ;-)

Lots of rest and liquids. Feel better!

Hope you feel better soon.

Thankfully, we have email and you can post assignments so you don't have to worry about your students.

I guess many of us have high tolerances for pain. I guess all the BS we endured makes us feel like strep or pneumonia or whatever else is a walk in the park.

I've had broken bones before that have knit back together without me going to the doctor. Why did I go? Because of the haunting voice in my head of my dad calling me a candy ass. Nice.

Rest up and feel better soon!

Thanks, Deli! Let us know how you feel with your neck, too.

Should we be worried that pneumonia is a relief?

Only on a PTSD board... o.0

heal well, muji.

Ha! It hurts my chest when you make me laugh like that, arfie. Ha! LOL!

I'm so sorry you were getting pneumonia. Is it better now?

Argie, yeah we are hear where pneumonia sounds good, I would be happy with that.

Kids are getting sick in our school now. The phrase, "dropping like flies" was buzzing around the faculty room today. Pun intended.

Neck was a tiny bit weird today. I bet it's psychosomatic. That, or my scarf's too tight.

: P

Yes, one more work day tomorrow and I drop on my couch for the weekend for the last of the antibiotics to do their thing.

Deli, this thing with the neck, keep us posted.

Interesting how extra germs aren't just in my school district.

An old psychology professor once told me that the school could not punish me for taking days off school because PTSD can legally qualify as a disability. (This may have been easier for me to do paperwork wise because I already have Cerebral Palsy. So most of my disability accomadation paperwork was already done.) He said that any employer would have to accomadate me as well, as ong as my symptoms were still documented or I was still receiving treatment. I had my therapist write a note whenever PTSD got in the way of school.

Thanks for the advice. I took it and acted on it. My medical doctor did write my boss a letter on letterhead, and I had it delivered to the office. It covered me that I was absent for germs, not PTSD. So I stayed home taking sick days Tues and Wed, and made it back to work somehow Thurs and today, Fri.

Now for the weekend and the miracle of antibiotics to do their thing.

Thanks for the support, everybody. Much appreciated.

Hmm. Spent whole weekend being good, getting bedrest and finishing the antibiotics my MD doctor gave me, but I'm not feeling any better. ?