6 April 2008
Somewhat predictably, as soon as I make real efforts to be more healthy and go to the gym, even - for a little while, feeling healthier than I have in a while - the gremlins of irony brought the germs of doom over for an extended house party.
Not to mention the whole "freelancer gets ill on first week of freelancing" issue.
I did manage to work 4 days out of 5 last week. I gave in on Thursday and spent the day resting on the sofa watching Season 1 of Dawson's Creek (which I loved when it was on the telly, and was able to purchase in its entirety for a mere £35 (down from £150) from Amazon a couple of weeks ago) and thought I'd shifted it a bit, until it all went a bit downhill yesterday.
Le sigh.
That'll teach me to make plans.
I should stick to making pancakes.
Oh, do I ever feel your pain. During a project I am working on now, I've been sick with a nasty nasty head cold twice (each lasting two weeks!). My take-home lesson: always assume two weeks of being sick in your initial time estimate.
Yep, sounds familiar.
In my experience, the "being ill" comes after a long period of stress (i.e. being in a 'proper job') and then going back to freelancing/contracting.
Your body relaxes, and leaves itself open to all the lurgies that have been floating around, and which didn't affect you while your body was stressed and working at just-about-optimum.
Bizarre, but true. When I ran pubs/hotels, I always used to write off January for being ill, following on from the two-to-three preceding months of Festering Season chaos.
With projects/contracts, I normally allocate a week for being ill between them. Seems to work so far, anyway.
Any "gear-change" in life usually precipitates a lurgy period.
I know that whenever I've changed offices, I've come down which "new people lurgy" and also when I used to change shift from Late (15:00-23:00)to Early (07:00-15:00)
*hugs* Get well soon.
OH gosh, there's so much going around. Lots of people get ill on holiday because it's the first time there body has been given a chance to unwind so perhaps that is some of what you're experiencing.
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