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It's the cold and flu season again; the same season that prompted my return to Literotica last year. Last year, around this time, I fell sick to a mild cold that wouldn't let go. With over two hundred people packed in one room my call center was always falling prey to various bugs. I had this one for four days but had ignored it and continued working. On the fifth day the room became darker as I sat at my terminal and I suddenly became dizzy.
It only lasted for a few minutes but I asked my mother to drive me home since I didn't want to risk driving becoming dizzy again while I drove home on the (rather icy) highway. She came to get me but instead of driving me home took me to the doctor's office. The doctor wrote a note and I was out of work for the next two and a half weeks. It seems that I had pneumonia in both lungs and three of my lung's lobes were filled with fluid. (I mostly spent this period on Lit. since I felt just fine)
The worst part of the experience was the number the antibiotic did on my digestive system. The insurance paid the bills, my superiors were all right with me being off, and I even received pay for the two and a half weeks. What a difference a year makes. Now, there is no way I could pay for the three visits to the doctor, the x-rays, and the medicine. My superior would be furious if I had to take two weeks off and there's no way I'd get paid for the time off.
Yet, I am the same person, my immune system is still crap and my lungs have a great deal of (non-infected) fluid in them. I get pneumonia on an almost yearly basis, I can't recall all the Thanksgivings, Christmases and New Years I've spent laying bed with soup and a hot water bottle. Typically, it is no big deal though. I get sick, I go to work and once or twice a year I get really sick and I can't go to work. That's with heath insurance. Now, I get sick and I can't afford to get really sick so I stay home.
I've called out sick twice in the last two weeks and my boss can't be pleased. I hate doing this but I'm afraid of what would happen if I became seriously ill. Anyways, I miss my health insurance.
It only lasted for a few minutes but I asked my mother to drive me home since I didn't want to risk driving becoming dizzy again while I drove home on the (rather icy) highway. She came to get me but instead of driving me home took me to the doctor's office. The doctor wrote a note and I was out of work for the next two and a half weeks. It seems that I had pneumonia in both lungs and three of my lung's lobes were filled with fluid. (I mostly spent this period on Lit. since I felt just fine)
The worst part of the experience was the number the antibiotic did on my digestive system. The insurance paid the bills, my superiors were all right with me being off, and I even received pay for the two and a half weeks. What a difference a year makes. Now, there is no way I could pay for the three visits to the doctor, the x-rays, and the medicine. My superior would be furious if I had to take two weeks off and there's no way I'd get paid for the time off.
Yet, I am the same person, my immune system is still crap and my lungs have a great deal of (non-infected) fluid in them. I get pneumonia on an almost yearly basis, I can't recall all the Thanksgivings, Christmases and New Years I've spent laying bed with soup and a hot water bottle. Typically, it is no big deal though. I get sick, I go to work and once or twice a year I get really sick and I can't go to work. That's with heath insurance. Now, I get sick and I can't afford to get really sick so I stay home.
I've called out sick twice in the last two weeks and my boss can't be pleased. I hate doing this but I'm afraid of what would happen if I became seriously ill. Anyways, I miss my health insurance.
