Mums cannot take a day off

21/02/2008 by Arielle.

I am full of cold and cough. My youngest daughter very kindly shared all her germs from nursery with me and inevitably (with all the good night kisses); I was going to catch it. I hate being ill - as we all do and to all Mums out there; we cannot take a day off when we just feel like crawling into bed and sleeping. There is always so much to do and little people to take to school, collect, cook for, bath etc etc.

I made my son take the dog out for her run this morning. She sits at the bottom of the stairs crying for me to appear dressed in my jogging clothes. She was equally happy when Christopher appeared to take her out.

I also have to work today and like most of us, I do not like to let people down. My husband has said that I am being selfish and will sneeze in front of all the clients and spread my germs while my son seems to think that I may sneeze on their pets and the iwner will fall ill when they are hugging their pets later at home!

The practice I work at is great and I know that they will find cover for me if I am really feeling bad but for now I am dosing up on Lemsip Max and about to go and consult. This is me feeling very sorry for myself!!

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