Sick Day

So, I was forced into taking a sick day today, because I woke up with a fever, and you aren't allowed to go in to the hospital if you have a fever. I still have mixed feelings about this. In one way, it's kind of nice to have a lazy day, and get to sleep in more (especially since i woke up every 30 minutes since 3 am). However, this means next Wednesday I need to have a particularly stellar patient, because I'll have to do my care plan and IPA on them. And, I feel weird not going, because I don't really feel *that* bad. It's basically just a cold. My throat was killing me, but now it's stopped. I was feeling feverish (obviously...) and now my head and back ache a little...

I suppose this means I technically got more time to study....? but I really didn't study all that much... I slept, and I started typing up some more prototype drugs for the pharm test, but I was having a hard time concentrating. so I watched full house! woohooo... and I finally ate some food. The tomato soup I heated up first did not taste very appetizing... finally I went with the banana I stole from the caf a couple days ago, and then some creamy chicken soup, which tasted much better.

Overall, I'm not a fan of sick days, especially when I feel like I didn't really need to take it that much. It's like the curse of nursing school. You don't have time to get sick, but because you're stressed and busy, it makes it more likely, and then, when you do get sick, if you're going into the hospital, you can't go if you're feverish, but you really can't afford to miss any days. When you are a nurse, even more so, because someone has to take care of those patients.

Of course, I'm also cursed with my father's idea that you make yourself sicker by staying home and wallowing in your sickness. Which means that whenever I get sick, I always feel like it's not that bad, and I'm just being lazy if I stay home.

Now I just want my head to stop hurting everytime I move.