I am not sick

I'm coughing and sniffily, but I am not sick. We got a thing on the internet that described the symptoms of the H1N1 vs. a cold. I had three things from the cold side and nothing from the H1 side. I am not sick. But when I went into work last week, everyone said, "why are you here?" You should go home. So I did. I went in late on Tuesday (because I couldn't sleep from my very sore throat which bothered me all night). I went home early on Wednesday, because everyone said--you are sick, you should not be at work. I started coughing during a client meeting and I couldn't go on with the meeting and had to reschedule it. I went in for just a few minutes on Thursday and showed a movie in my class so I wouldn't have to talk. I went into work on Friday, but when my client called to cancel (because I had seen them a few minutes on Tuesday and they didn't want to catch my cold), I went home sick. But I wasn't sick. I felt so guilty just sitting around the house, so I took a nap. I vowed to take it super easy on the weekend--get plenty of rest and then I'd be all better. But I didn't sleep much over the weekend from all the coughing. I watched some movies and coughed a lot. I cleaned my room and coughed a lot. I did my laundry and coughed a lot. I coughed and coughed and ate so many cough drops that all my food and drink tastes like cherry cough drop. So monday morning after getting almost no sleep the night before from all the coughing, I called in sick again. I was planning on going in in the afternoon. I was out of food, so I went shopping and I was so tired when I got back that my plan to go into the office was quickly nixed. Adam suggested that I go in Monday evening when I got my strenth back. That sounded great at the time when I was hacking up deep depilitating coughs. I didn't go in. Chris said that his mom has the same cough (and we were sitting next to each other at Ris's birthday party passing around the babies--I think we have identified the source). She went to the doctor and they told her she was not sick. Haha! medical proof.

So this morning, I said to myself--no excuses, I'm going in to work. I am not sick. I will just have to stay quiet, talk as little as possible, eat those cough drops and close my door when the coughing gets to be too much. I am not sick. I got through a client meeting with minimal coughing. I got through an attorney conference with minimal coughing. I have one more client meeting this afternoon--two long meetings tomorrow--a few phone calls to make. I am not sick. I'm awfully tired, but I am not sick.