Monday morning as my alarm went off I noticed something was not right. My left eye was covered over with crunchy crud. I remember as a kid a few times when this happened, it seemed more severe back then. It felt as if mortar had been put over my eyes or maybe that was just my reaction as a kid. Pink eye as it is called, seemed to happen a lot more when I was young and getting it now feels like I got some childhood disease that adults never get. The reaction from my co-workers is equally as curious. When I tell them where I was yesterday they either start to slowly back away from me or reach for some hand sanitizer. Some tease, to which I respond that if they are not nice I will rub my eye on their keyboard others tell of their own experience or family member who has had it recently. Nobody likes being sick, we just all want the time off. The problem was if I had sat home and not answered email or phone calls I would have come back to even more of a mess. Sick days have become a work from home so I done infect everyone else day for me. I am not complaining, it is the job I signed up for and with my personality, sitting at home on the couch sick makes me feel worse. I would rather stay connected help put out the fires remotely than come back to surprises, because those surprises are usually worse than whatever made me stay home in the first place.