Tuesday, August 12, 2025

This time of year

It's become something of a back-to-school tradition: the children return from summer break, and a week or so later I get sick. 

The kids came back two weeks ago, and seven days later I started to feel poorly. Sneezing, itchy throat, a burning in my chest. By that night I was coughing and aching all over, and my asthma began to flare. I ended up missing two and a half days of work last week and having to see the doctor. I'm still not 100% but definitely on the mend.

Yesterday a more recent back-to-school tradition took place: I had to go for jury selection. This has happened for the last three Augusts since I transferred to my current school. After missing half of last week, I hated to miss yet another day of work, but jury duty isn't negotiable. I'm just grateful that I didn't get selected, because they pulled jurors for cases for four hours. Almost everyone in the room got chosen for a case or two, so I guess I lucked out. 

This morning I'm finally back to work. Hopefully there won't be any further interruptions for awhile, because I have a lot of catching up to do.




6 comments:

  1. Those nasty, germ-ridden children have a lot to answer for. Hope you're feeling much better very soon.

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  2. Jury duty AND a virus, you lucky girl you! Feel better soon!

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  3. If it weren't for bad, you'd have no luck at all! I hope you'll feel better soon.

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  4. Phew - what a way to get back... Hopefully, as you say, that's it now for a while in terms of interruptions you could do without.
    A lot of people around here have been sneezing and coughing, too; I blame the A/C on trains, planes and in cars.

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  5. Yes! Let's start a fresh new year with all the ways to prevent anything being easy. You poor thing.

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  6. Oh, Lord! That is NOT a good start. Hopefully you're getting all your stress out of the way in one go so it will be smooth sailing from here on!

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