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ltmurnauI was going to post today about being sick all week with grippe, or the agues, or epidemic catarrh, or whatever it is I got last weekend, but here's a meme instead From the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
altfriday5:
1. When was the last time you were sick enough to stay home from work/school or get help with your at-home duties? What were your symptoms?
Last Saturday/Sunday. I had fever, body aches, chills and sweats, and a cough that developed later into laryngitis. I haven't taken a sick day off from work for some time, probably most of a year or more.
2. When you're sick, do you like having people fuss over you, or would you rather be left alone? Why?
I like people to come in and fuss over me at intervals, just so I know I'm not forgotten, and left alone otherwise.
3. Do you have health insurance, and if so, through what means? What is your view on how health insurance should be handled in this country?
I have public health insurance, like everyone else in my country, and my work offers a good illness & injury plan too. I like the way health insurance is handled in Canada, in that services are there when I need them and I won't go bankrupt if I get sick or injured. I do think though that the banquet of services available under health plans has gotten a bit too broad and thus is endangering the viability of the whole scheme, for everyone - I also think people need to be more conscious of the true cost of the services they are accessing, and be more responsible for their health and how they use health services. But that's for another day.
4. Do you ever call out sick, even when you're not really that sick? Do you ever feel guilty calling out sick even when you are sick?
I have never called in sick when I wasn't genuinely too ill to get out of bed. It's far more likely I'd go into work while sick enough that other people would stay home.
5. What's your favorite thing to do when you're sick, if you're not sleeping (or, you know, throwing up)?
I like to watch bad videos, usually from the 80s, but this time around Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Channel had some good stuff going. I saw The Horse's Mouth, Bell, Book and Candle, It Happened to Jane, Operation Mad Ball, and The Caine Mutiny.
altfriday5: 1. When was the last time you were sick enough to stay home from work/school or get help with your at-home duties? What were your symptoms?
Last Saturday/Sunday. I had fever, body aches, chills and sweats, and a cough that developed later into laryngitis. I haven't taken a sick day off from work for some time, probably most of a year or more.
2. When you're sick, do you like having people fuss over you, or would you rather be left alone? Why?
I like people to come in and fuss over me at intervals, just so I know I'm not forgotten, and left alone otherwise.
3. Do you have health insurance, and if so, through what means? What is your view on how health insurance should be handled in this country?
I have public health insurance, like everyone else in my country, and my work offers a good illness & injury plan too. I like the way health insurance is handled in Canada, in that services are there when I need them and I won't go bankrupt if I get sick or injured. I do think though that the banquet of services available under health plans has gotten a bit too broad and thus is endangering the viability of the whole scheme, for everyone - I also think people need to be more conscious of the true cost of the services they are accessing, and be more responsible for their health and how they use health services. But that's for another day.
4. Do you ever call out sick, even when you're not really that sick? Do you ever feel guilty calling out sick even when you are sick?
I have never called in sick when I wasn't genuinely too ill to get out of bed. It's far more likely I'd go into work while sick enough that other people would stay home.
5. What's your favorite thing to do when you're sick, if you're not sleeping (or, you know, throwing up)?
I like to watch bad videos, usually from the 80s, but this time around Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Channel had some good stuff going. I saw The Horse's Mouth, Bell, Book and Candle, It Happened to Jane, Operation Mad Ball, and The Caine Mutiny.
