Does anyone else go to work sick?

[brewens]

8. I have many times. These days I don't feel like a have to. It's usually

a case of bad timing and stupidity on my part. I'm a mobile drive for a blood center. If I know I'm going to be really sick the next day, I can call in with no problem. The only thing is that the relief driver comes from out HQ 100 miles away. Several times I've talked myself into believing I'm not really getting sick and been stuck when I woke up with a raging cold. Then it's too late and the blood drive will be canceled if I call in. The only choice is to gut it out, treat the symptoms and take every precaution to avoid spreading it. I used decongestants, serious sanitary wipes and hand sanitizer.

Running my dairy route years ago I was in a pickle. Same situation. The relief driver would never make it and I had to deliver milk to the schools. I actually thought I might get into trouble with the school cooks if they realized I had a raging cold. I was new. Before long I realized that at any time during the cold a flu season, almost every school on my route had a cook that was fighting a cold on the job. They could have called in but people just don't do it.