Don’t Give Me An Inch? Guess I’ll Take A Mile!

I’m not feeling well and I am taking the day off to recuperate. It’s a head cold and nothing to do with the chest, but I do have a sore throat and runny nose.

Work requires a doctor’s note if I want to get paid. I can’t make an appointment at my old doctor’s office because I live too far away and they need to have seen me within a year to be able to do a phone appointment. The new doctor near me won’t see me because of cold symptoms; I need a negative [health crisis illness] test result to see them first.

I go and take the [illness] test, and I need to wait a couple of days for the test result.

My work could have just said it was fine for the one day, but now I have a note for the [illness] test, and I legally have to isolate for the next three days. I am gonna enjoy them after my head cold clears up!