Sick days

Don't you hate wake up sick and spend so much time determining if you should go into work? Well, I was going through that debate on Tuesday when I woke up feeling achy and lightheaded. I decided to stay home from work but still worked on some stories and completed some phone interviews.

I was sick a few weeks ago with a cold on my production day (Monday) and that was pretty dreadful. Most of the editors will come in even if we're dying on production day because we're the people soley responsible for getting the paper printed. Of course other editors pitch in but they have their own stories and papers to worry about.

Last year when I was with a different newspaper, I worked while I had a kidney stone. I was out of the office for a week and worked on stories from home the best I could. I was scheduled to cover something on Memorial Day and even though I was in a lot of pain, I had my mother drive me to the assignment.

It seems like everyone has been getting sick lately. Maybe it's the weather or the lifestyles of journalists. We have the attitudes of energizer bunnies to keep going and going but unfortunately our batteries do wear out a lot faster than we want them to.