Flu.

As I’m writing this, I’ve sat at home for the whole day, after being given a day of sick leave by my doctor.  I was down with the flu.

It’s actually not too often that I fall so sick that I have to take sick leaves.  I mean, for the past couple of years, I average about less than one day on sick leave, and for the whole of 2013 I don’t think I was so sick that I couldn’t turn up for work.  It looked like for last year, my illness always seem to know when they’d come visit – on the weekends or my leave (I was down with a bad cold when I was in Korea last February).  I guess in a way, my body likes to turn up for work.

But for today, I woke up with a very bad headache and muscle ache.  I’ve been having headaches for the past few days so I didn’t take too much notice, but the muscle ache came just like that.  The first thing I thought of was the flu, and true enough.  When I went to see the doctor he said that I was having the flu – the fever proved it – so he gave me all those medication and ask me to rest more.  In a way, I was relieved that I could take the day to try to recover, but once I remember the work at the office, I don’t think I could say I enjoy staying at home.

I think I’ll go have my lie-in now.  I could already imagine the sight that I would see when I stepped into office tomorrow. Ha!