The phone note reads “Last time Kate was sick was August 2014, last time Kate called out sick was when she had shingles in DC in 2008.”
knock on wood
That is 15 years of not calling in sick.
The streak is broken.
Ruined.
I had to call in sick on Tuesday night because I had food poisoning. And the hospital frowns upon working under those kind of GI conditions.
Heck, I frown upon it too.
Hence the call out.
It had been so long since I had done it, I had to ask my manager how to call out.
And the thing about food poisoning? It is normally a short-term duration illness. I was back to normal on Wednesday. But the no call out streak is still in ruins on the ground.
Rude.
Nothing to do but start again.
And hope that it wasn’t the tipping point inviting all the buggies in. Because you know that OR nurses are superstitious. And Friday night was a honker of a full moon.
Today it has been 5 days since I had to call out sick.
Every streak has to start somewhere.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 