The Sick House

I took Lyle Jr to the doctors. He didn't have an ear infection or strep throat just the fluid in his chest. He's on an antibiotic and the fever has subsided. Now, everyone is the house is coughing, Scotty and Lyle threw up last night, my ears hurt and I have gunk in my chest. My knee pain is still trumping everything else and I go and have an MRI on Sunday. All of this has culminated into the fact that I have had to take an occurrence at work and have been gone for three days. We don't have traditional sick time at my work. Anytime that you call in sick, while it might be paid, is considered and occurrence and is held against you. This is my first one. After two in a rolling twelve month period you can be terminated. The bad thing about all of this is that it started on Christmas Eve night when all the doctor's offices were closed and just when I was supposed to return to work the day after Christmas is when I have had to take sick time. Looks like I was just trying to get an extended vacation, I'm sure. Being cooped up with sick children, while being sick myself isn't my idea of vacation but oh well. Some things are out of my control. If I were to return to work today and then find myself or my children too sick and I had to leave then I would get a second occurrence, better to stretch the first one out a bit. This sucks it's the same kind of thing that gives working mother's a bad name. Why couldn't I be independently wealthy or own my own business or something? Well, this time I decided to make my sick children and myself more important than my job.