{{{Askye}}} You are genuinely sick, and a day home drinking lots of fluids and resting on the couch would probably go a long way toward getting better quicker. Therefore, bringing you back to full capacity at work sooner.

I baked the brownies, picked up a small gift card for coffee, and wrote a nice thank you note, but the neighbor is not home. I wonder what would be considered too late to try again?

askye, a lot of people have to be hospitalized for IV antibiotics, even if they aren't "sick" (showing lots of symptoms, etc). Your office is lucky that you aren't hospitalized and missing a LOT of days -- I think that 1 day off, even if you don't think you're "sick," will do you a world of good.

askye- I have to second what everyone else says. Take a sick day. You are sick, as evidenced by the IV antibiotics. Perhaps three days off in a row will help you get well. Also, perhaps you are not thinking clearly because you are sick.

askye, what everyone else said. You're sick, you can take a sick day.

Do I need to call someone? You know I will.

Poking my head out of my safe lurkey-hidey-hole to weigh in with a marginally medical opinion (I'm not a "real nurse" yet but I know stuff, really!).

Stay home, askye! You are sick, even if you feel that you don't look it. Fighting off an infection like yours takes an immense amount of energy and intensive antibiotic therapy is exhausting. You are absolutely justified in staying home.

Signed, Not a Doctor, but you can pretend I am if it helps!

Dude, if anyone doubts why you stayed at home, you can say, "The lurkers support me!"

Adding my voice to the chorus: stay home, askye. You *are* sick.

not a doctor here, but have spent my fair share on the recieving end of the medical world. Askye, not to gang up on you, but, if ya got a bag hanging off your arm, you shouldn't go to work. If you are fighting off infection, your body needs to relax and do it's thing. {{{ Askye }}}}

Randomly: a while ago, when I was pimping Urban Decay's 24/7 eyeliner, someone -- maybe Trudy? -- asked if the black liner had glitter in it (b/c the rest of the liners had glitter [or something shimmery; the eyeliner wasn't just matte]), and the answer was no. The black was the only one of the 24/7 line that had no glitter/shimmer.

HOWEVER! I was just poking around the Sephora site, and apparently Urban Decay DOES now have a black 24/7 eyeliner WITH glitter/shimmer. They still have the matte one also, but now there is glittery black.

This has been your girly-girl public service announcement.

ION, I need a haircut badly. It brushes my shoulders, and it's getting tiresome. I'm thinking ear-length and flippy. If only The Boy was blase about my haircuts.

IOotherN, I'm having a moderate IBS flare-up that I'm tempted to label "severe" only because it won't let up. Normally, with drugs, it eases up after a couple of hours, but it will not ease up today. I hurt so much just walking from my car to the gym that I stopped at the doors to the gym, turned around, and came home.

I always admit when I ate something to make it flare up (ah, sugar, my old nemesis), but this time I really *haven't*! At least, I haven't eaten sugar or any other thing know is a trigger.

I just want to fix it, but it's impossible to do so when I don't know what the cause was. Stupid body. Be more invincible!