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My policy is to take a day off if I'm feeling like I'm coming down with something (you know, that ooky tickly icky feeling) and go back to bed. In between naps, I attempt to drown whatever it is with copious amounts of liquids, hot and cold. Nine times out of ten I wake up the next day feeling fine. Thanks to email, it's usually fairly easy to deal with taking time off; I have a lot of different obligations at any given time (work, school, practica) but thankfully all of my supervisors for said things have email.
By anecdotal comparison, my SO will often attempt to work through whatever it is that ails him, and ends up dragging out whatever it is for a week or so. He's decided that this winter will be different, especially since the university is requiring all professors to adhere to a more flexible attendance policy (thank you, swine flu).
I'm just glad people are finally paying attention to how GROSS it is to sit in lecture and listen to twenty-plus people sniffle.
Get well soon, Medi!
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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