Sick and still thinking of work
Have not been well since two weeks back.Seen my GP once, finished all the medicine and did not fully recover.
How to recover? As teachers, we have to use our voices. And occasionally raise them.
After the National Day hol, I find my throat soring again. This time round I know, it will lead to throat inflammation, followed by fever and backache. It is not that I am self prophesizing, just that since I started teaching in an open concept school, it has been so each time my throat acts up.
The first year of teaching was bad. I saw my GP for this problem any other month and the fever could run really high. This year, the frequency has reduced.
Anyway, this second round to the GP, I pressed him for anti-biotics. An unwise thing to do, I know. But, only with anti-biotics, then this soreness and inflammation will go. As a mother to two young children, I can't afford to be sick for too long, being sick for too long also means higher chance of them catching the virus from me. So, I've been diligently making sure I get well fast.
When I was a "Miss Liau", such things won't nag at me too much. Really not well? Take your well-deserved MC lah. Anyway, in a school's culture, it will be manageable for a teacher to go on one day MC, your colleagues can cover your duties for you. If it is more than a day, you will be seen as taxing and stretching your colleagues. Unless, the school practices engaging relief teachers. This dun always happen in my preschool.
Can't help thinking about work even when lying in bed. The mind is still mapping, planning, visualizing, conceptualizing, etc... do all teachers have this occupational hazard? I still find myself typing away and surfing on my lap-top each time I got up from bed.
Later, I will still write the lessons' plans.
Tomorrow is Monday. So fast, yah ?
Thankfully, no family dinner tonight.
Love,
Jesselyn Ng
posted by Jesselyn Ng @ 10:46 AM
5 Comments:
Hi Jess,
Hope you are better!
It is indeed an occupational hazard... hahaha...even when you are on mc, feeling fuzzy and dizzy and super lethargic and surrounded by boxes of tissue paper, you still work from home... surfing for teaching materials, clearing the markings and what's in your head...?? What are the pupils doing now? Who is covering my class? Are they behaving well?
Worse right, your mind is even working overtime... besides having to think of ways not to infect our own kids...so as not to have to take further leave..( childcare ) Sigh.....
Take care ok.... for once...stay away from the pc...hehehhehehe
Nurul
Ok, so I'm not alone. :)
Yah, to take child care leave is even worse. At the very least, we all hope to be considerate colleagues.
Jess
Unless I leave the profession, you will always have me as company... hahahhahaha...
Anyway, I'm still doing my lesson plans for next week...but not too bad..only 3 days as thursday and Friday are PSLE Oral days...
bTW, I took the boys for 'longkang fishing ' again... hheheh... they got 'addicted'!! Even myself.. hahhaha
Nurul
Hey, I'm done with my lesson plans finally! Blessed Nurul, only have three days to do for this week. :P
Long Kang fishing? Glad your boys and you like it. It is quite fun right? Can teach patience and Math.
Zoe is always trying to coax the fishes to go into her net. Ha, fat hope. But, it is quite cute seeing her goes, "Com'on, fishy, fishy, this way. Com'on, don't swim away. This way, Zoe's waiting for you. Here !!" .... Hahaha ......
That Pasir Ris Farm is a more pleasant one than the one at Choa Chu Kang. But at CCK, they will exchange your catch for two goldfish. So, Zoe had two goldfish as pets after the fishing trip. Didi ate too much and died within three weeks. Fifi is still surviving and Zoe's mummy can't wait for Fifi to ..... better dun say. Just know that I'm not a pet lover, hehehe ....
Love,
Jess
Love,
Jess
Hi Delci,
Ya, am feeling much better today.
Today, went to school and was greeted with a very pleasant surprise, actually two surprises in fact.
A parent wrote a note to express her appreciation for having me as her dd's teacher and said that she indicated to the Principal that she would love to have me as her dd's teacher for 2007.
And a student who did two very beautiful drawings for me! They are so detailedly done that I can tell he must have spent a lot, a lot of time doing them. I called his mum to thank her for taking time to help her son's draw up the outline. This boy just nodded shyly when I asked him, "u love Mrs Ng very much, is it? Not one picture, but two!! Wow, these are so beautiful, I'm going pinned them up on my display board!"
These little things really brighten my day!
Love,
Jess
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