That's what "Sick days" are for!

My trip to Michigan didn't end that well. I picked up a pretty bad cold and by Sunday morning, I felt like shit. I had a bad headache and a sore throat. Sunday night back in CT was bad. I woke up every 1-2 hours during the night and the cold was making me absolutely miserable. Monday was just as bad, but thankfully, I was just well enough today to go into work (with a box of kleenex that I nearly killed during the day).

Don't worry, I won't place any blame for the cold on certain friends of mine back in MI that may or may not have been sick this past week.

This has been an unfortunate pattern for me in recent years. I have never taken a sick day since I started my current job 3.5 years ago. I have gone into work with a bad cold once or twice, but I have never been sick enough to miss work except for one time when I went to work and got three other people sick. I'm sure they all love me for it. However, I can think of three times where I have taken a vacation where I got sick at some point in the last couple years. One time, I had such a bad flu that I was bed ridden for 2 of the 5 days I was visiting my brother in California. He had to threaten the airline to get them to move my flight back to CT by 12 hours without penalty, and I still was probably too sick to fly that next morning since I threw up twice during that flight. I'm sure that's a pretty mental picture for you.

Doesn't my body realize that vacations are the worst time to get sick? Argh...