chicken pox

ok... i've accepted it already, though i still can't live with it! damn, these things are fuckin' itchy! anyway, i didn't realize what it was until my friend, jing, told me. then i visited the nurse to get consultation and she sent me home. when i got home, i was semi-ok; kinda nauseous but ok... it was in full bloom then, so when i got back from the doctor, he just signed the sss papers and gave me a medical certificate.

another reason to hate your job/workplace: if they literally make you sick. a warning to those working in confined spaces and particularly airconditioned ones... always ask if they're ventilating the place... whether they're airing out or fumigating the previous week's dirt or not. i did some research regarding chicken pox and turns out that for you to catch it, there's an incubating period of 1-2 days; wherein you'll be coughing a lot or basically already spreading the freakin' virus around and didn't even know it. which was what happened to me. when i talked to the nurse, she said that if ever my case WAS chicken pox, i would be the 4th person to get it in the company. grrrreat.

with all the coughing i did in the past week or so, i may have spread that virus around to a good 5 or 10 people, depending on who hasn't gotten it yet or who's immune system is weak. i couldn't have gotten it anywhere else. know why? i didn't GO anywhere else. my routine is: sleep, wakeup, eat, go to work, go home, sleep. even on my days off i couldn't find the energy to go out and be with friends or even shop by myself or whatever. i usually just rest it off. and it made complete sense that the virus was airborne and that i was stuck there for like 9, sometimes 11 hrs a day for overtimes and stuff.

i'm more upset because not too long ago, i got the mumps too. ha! and i had also been working in the same company. still am. geez! i know they're cost-cutting, but come on! to endanger your employees' lives like that??? i'm just saying, it's not worth it, what i'm doing and what they're paying me... i know i shouldn't, but i've got no one else to talk to about this. i've constantly complained to other people in the office who agree as well but to no avail.... thank God i'm not in any serious health condition or anything... --- that was sarcastic.