I'm sure we've all done it before; you just don't want to go to work, so you fake being sick in order to take a day for yourself. However, a study suggests that we take more fake sick days than you'd think we do.
You people thought I was kidding when I came up with the medical term FHD. Well, my partner was struck by it this morning. It is real and is very prevalent right now. Keep your hands clean and watch it or it will be introducing itself to you soon...
Slowly but surely the people I work with have been dropping like flies. One person was out sick on Tuesday, two were gone on Wednesday and today 4 people missed work with flu symptoms. I'm also dealing with a queasy stomach but that could be from having a pint of Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia Ice Cream for dinner...
I started getting sick over the weekend. A cold turned into bronchitis and now my throat is just raw... in fact if you add some chalk dust to the gravel in this pic and hit it with a hair dryer that's closer to what I'm actually feeling. If you haven't got the picture I'm a big baby when I get sick...