I haven’t been working since Tuesday and I won’t be going in to work tomorrow either! I’m actually not that sick at the moment but I don’t think I’m healthy enough to actually work with patients. I thought I was fit for work on Tuesday but I ended up having to stop quite a few times just to go blow my nose, and my head had started to feel stuffy by the end of the day

Being sick also means I have to drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated. A bit annoying because I normally don’t drink much water and I normally don’t need to run to the toilet between patients. But this time I had no choice! It’s a pain trying to clean up the room, do the steri, clear your nose, empty your bladder, set up for the next patient and put a friendly smile on your face all in 5mins and feeling like s… someone who has been hitting their head against the wall I hate rushing!

This is such a bad time for me to get sick because there is no staff (not even temps!) to take up my patients and the end of next week is my last day of work! I’m hoping they either get another dentist or hygienist/therapist ASAP for their own sake because they seriously need one!! Even when I try to book patients for their next appointment in February, I actually tell them that we might call to change the appointment because of lack of staff.

So calling in sick is such a pain for me to do I feel sorry for the staff who have to call up the patients to reschedule because it is such an annoying task and it feels like a waste of time. I feel sorry for the patients who have been reshuffled many times, and I feel sorry for the patients who have to end up seeing the dentist instead because dentists just don’t do S/P (scale & polish) the same

Anyway, I feel like a demon took a bite out of my life because I’ve been in bed the whole day So much wasted time just because this body doesn’t heal fast enough… Although I must admit, I would have probably been better by now if I didn’t run those errands yesterday