Biggest challenge when sick?

[sexyhankysneeze]

Based on your job, what is the most challenging part of going to work with a cold?

For me, as a restaurant manager it is having to hold back sneezing/coughing near food or on customers, as well as having to wait a while to sneak away from customer view if I have to blow my nose when we're busy

[deere]

Probably that moment at the start of a meeting when I open my mouth and sound sick, and get the stink-eye from one or multiple colleagues.

[SleepingPhlox]

Uhhh, the fact that my ability to maintain a facade of a good mood goes WAY down.   I'm pretty lucky in that I work in an office where I don't deal with the public pretty much ever, and I have my own space where many times I can spend a lot of time not being bothered because people have to physically go down a flight of stairs and down a hallway to talk to me face to face and that's more effort than people want to put in a lot of the time!  But my job is also really boring and a couple people there get on my LAST nerve and it does take a lot of energy to pretend to be enthusiastic and friendly all day...when I'm not feeling well I just do not have that energy.

[gingerdean]

I wear a mask at work if I have a cold, or even if I suspect that I may coming down with something, since I work with a lot of immunocompromised patients.  Honesty, my biggest issue is that no matter how I wear that damn mask over my face, I'm constantly fogging up my glasses, which is really annoying    Other than that, the most challenging aspect of being sick is definitely feeling drained of energy , having difficulty focusing and concentrating (from being drained of energy), and having to excuse myself frequently to blow my nose, bc that's something I will never do around anyone else. Especially since my job stays pretty busy and fast-paced, that's definitely a major annoyance. 

[Elektra]

Teaching when my voice is gone. Maintaining a level of good energy for the students when in fact I just hurt.

Also I often having digestive pbs, and pain like that although not unbearable is a constant irritant, I have trouble keeping my patience and staying entirely available to listen or help the others.