Sick Days

I only worked a half of day today because I was sick and coughing up a lung. It was my first sick day in about 3 years, previously I have worked through whatever illness ailed me, too bad not everyone can do that.  I have worked many jobs and heard from  friends and my husband the stories about how often someone would call in sick, its almost ridiculous.  They call in sick one day and are perfectly fine the next day as if they were healed by the power of the Lord.  Makes it hard to believe if they were even truly sick at all.  It's like the boy who cried wolf you call in sick often when your not sick and then one day you are totally and completely ill and you have no sick days left.  Everyone should try to toughen out the day and if you really don't feel 100% then ask to go home early.