Speaking of germs and mutations....my boss has been out of work the past two days. She was only just back from a two-week trip to India two weeks ago. She returned all full of joy that she managed to return hale and hearty.
Two days after her return, she began coming down with something that plagued her all three workdays last week (in fact, she left early every day and it was luck that saw her fit to attend her birthday luncheon last Wednesday).
That said, she's been like death warmed over this week and today is her first day back.
I rode up in the elevator with her this morning. Another person was with us. My boss let out a series of hacking coughs that would shame the banshees. The other person recoiled against the side of the elevator car with a look of near-terror.
So, my boss is in her office gamely attempting to take care of some things needing her attention, but she has coughing fits that would raise the dead. And every time she's on the phone, she treats the person she's talking to with a full ear-blast of coughing (one of her "I am sick" trademarks, unfortunately).
I pray she will give it up and go home...before she's the death of the rest of us.
