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I looked the Parenting Roundabout podcasts for
the week of May first, twenty twenty

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three. I'm Nicole er Nix.
Then here at Catherine Maleko. Hello.

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Every week we chat about what parents
are talking, complaining and obsessing about right

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now. But this week we're short
one podcaster as Terry recuperates from surgery and

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we forced her to take a few
days off. So we thought we'd looked

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back at some of our past discussions
on encounters with sickness, health and healthcare.

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Today's chat is originally from twenty sixteen. Now, my kids already this

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school year, have you each had
one sick day? At least one?

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Was rather dubious, But I was
wondering if you could recall, in the

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dusty reasonses of your memory, when
the last time was that you took sick

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day? Terry Well Bribton, it
would have been the last time I worked

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in an office. I guess,
which is I can't even remember how long

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ago that was. Now my kids
were in elementary school, so a decade

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and more than a decade. But
what about if have you ever just been

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like, oh, I'm too sick, I can't work today, and just

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once in a while I may have
had the flu and done that, but

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in general, I am in bed, propped up on pillows with my laptop.

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You can't when you're a freelancer,
you can't really take a sick day,

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can't you. It's you know,
it's hard. It's hardlines go away,

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right, Yeah. I mean at
least when you're going on vacation or

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when I've you know, gone away. I have done things in advance so

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that I can be away, but
it's hard to do that when you're sick.

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Yeah. Well, I think probably
the last time I've you know,

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said I'm not doing any work today
is when I had my gum surgery.

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Just been like non functional too when
that happened. So have what you Nicol.

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So we're not talking about taking sick
days from being a mom right now.

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That never happened. Yeah. When
just in the month before we moved

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to America, I was I worked
up until the day before we moved.

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Wow, and I had and so
we were we had sold our house,

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I was packing everything up, I
had my two kids in school, my

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husband was here in the States working, and then I was teaching more than

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full time at that point, or
sorry, at full time at that point,

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I believe from what I can remember, and so, um, yeah,

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I needed to have some sick days
to manage everything. I don't think

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my old school district is listening,
but I needed some of those days paid

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sick days and paid vacation days or
one of the very very very few things

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I miss about working in the office, just that you could say that there

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is a structure in which you can
say I don't feel well, I'm not

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going to work today, or I
am going on a vacation. I'm going

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to enjoy my family for a week. That never happens now and I miss

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it. Yeah, it didn't really
happen. It doesn't really happen when you're

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a teacher either, because it's more
work to prepare to be away than it

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is to be away. And then
generally your whole program stops when you're away,

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so you're you're backed up when you
come. So it's changing, how

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about you, Catherine, Yeah,
I think it was probably when I had

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surgery. I mean, once in
a while, if I have a migraine,

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I just take a nap, you
know, so I take like a

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sick hour. Yeah, and there
are those days when my family thinks I

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haven't had enough sleep or I'm not
feeling well and they let me sleep a

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long time and then I lose half
the day. So that's sort of a

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surprise sick day, right, Why
didn't you? What have you done well?

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Yeah? And we never take sick
days from the podcast, right,

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No, no, no, just
cough and sniff. We just keep going.

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That's it for today's Sickness and Health
Chat. Tune in tomorrow for another

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take on this theme. We're always
interested in what you have to say,

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