I looked the Parenting Roundabout podcasts for the week of May first, twenty twenty three. I'm Nicole er Nix. Then here at Catherine Maleko. Hello. Every week we chat about what parents are talking, complaining and obsessing about right now. But this week we're short one podcaster as Terry recuperates from surgery and we forced her to take a few days off. So we thought we'd looked back at some of our past discussions on encounters with sickness, health and healthcare.
Today's chat is originally from twenty sixteen. Now, my kids already this school year, have you each had one sick day? At least one? Was rather dubious, But I was wondering if you could recall, in the dusty reasonses of your memory, when the last time was that you took sick day? Terry Well Bribton, it would have been the last time I worked in an office. I guess, which is I can't even remember how long ago that was. Now my kids were in elementary school, so a decade
and more than a decade. But what about if have you ever just been like, oh, I'm too sick, I can't work today, and just once in a while I may have had the flu and done that, but in general, I am in bed, propped up on pillows with my laptop. You can't when you're a freelancer, you can't really take a sick day, can't you. It's you know, it's hard. It's hardlines go away, right, Yeah. I mean at least when you're going on vacation or
when I've you know, gone away. I have done things in advance so that I can be away, but it's hard to do that when you're sick. Yeah. Well, I think probably the last time I've you know, said I'm not doing any work today is when I had my gum surgery. Just been like non functional too when that happened. So have what you Nicol. So we're not talking about taking sick days from being a mom right now.
That never happened. Yeah. When just in the month before we moved to America, I was I worked up until the day before we moved. Wow, and I had and so we were we had sold our house, I was packing everything up, I had my two kids in school, my husband was here in the States working, and then I was teaching more than full time at that point, or sorry, at full time at that point, I believe from what I can remember, and so, um, yeah,
I needed to have some sick days to manage everything. I don't think my old school district is listening, but I needed some of those days paid sick days and paid vacation days or one of the very very very few things I miss about working in the office, just that you could say that there is a structure in which you can say I don't feel well, I'm not going to work today, or I am going on a vacation. I'm going to enjoy my family for a week. That never happens now and I miss
it. Yeah, it didn't really happen. It doesn't really happen when you're a teacher either, because it's more work to prepare to be away than it is to be away. And then generally your whole program stops when you're away, so you're you're backed up when you come. So it's changing, how about you, Catherine, Yeah, I think it was probably when I had surgery. I mean, once in a while, if I have a migraine, I just take a nap, you know, so I take like a
sick hour. Yeah, and there are those days when my family thinks I haven't had enough sleep or I'm not feeling well and they let me sleep a long time and then I lose half the day. So that's sort of a surprise sick day, right, Why didn't you? What have you done well? Yeah? And we never take sick days from the podcast, right, No, no, no, just cough and sniff. We just keep going. That's it for today's Sickness and Health Chat. Tune in tomorrow for another
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