Sick Day
Today I am off work … because I am ill.
I was awake all of last night wit hpains in my stomach amongst other things. At 2am this morning I called NHS Direct. Now you can say what you like about the health service but the people I spoke to last night were amazingly helpful and did everything they could to help.
They told me that the best thing I could do was to go to a drop in centre this morning (seeing as it’s saturday and my GP’s office is closed). I went to the one in RSH and they were nothing if not thorough. They agreed with the NHS Direct people that I have a kidney infection.
So now I’m taking antibiotics and am expected to make a full recovery very soon. In the mean time I just have to put up with being in a fair amount of pain … only because I’m a bit of a ditz and forgot to pick up some pain killers while I was in the chemists.
The main downside to being ill today (apart from obviously being ill) was the hassle I had trying to call in sick to work. I called practically non-stop between 7:30am and 12 this afternoon. Even then I never managed to get through to the person I was trying to get through to. So ended up speaking to the kitchen manager rather than the restaurant manager I was trying to speak to. But I sent a text message to her and let her know that way. So I’m pretty much certain everyone who needed to know I wasn’t going to be going in knew in plenty of time.
Now I can concentrate on getting better.
