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[ealuscerwen]

Grr. I'm at work feeling really quite ill. Light-headed/dizzy, nauseous, all that stuff. This would be okay - I can definitely last 'til the end of the working day - apart from the fact that I'm due to be going to a bridge club with one Bella after work

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[verlaine]

I can't even imagine you playing an unreasonable standard of Bridge! Though I think being at death's door is a perfectly valid excuse to cancel Bridge plans, even so.

[wimble]

Is Bella a work person? If not, then you have no requirement to force yourself to stay at work whilst feeling ill. (Actually, you have no requirement even if she is a work person).

I've never agreed with this "If I'm too ill to be at work, I must be too ill to go out" concept. After a day of not being at work, it makes sense to feel somewhat recovered. In fact, given the current temperature, I'm leaning toward "I'm too groggy to think straight at work, so I'll declare the cinema's air-con medicinal."

I'll agree there's a certain amount of social difficulty, if work people see you being recovered, but if you're genuinely under the weather, go home, and it's their problem if they misinterpret your continued survival.

[bateleur]

If this is the Bella I think it is I'm sure she wouldn't be at all offended by your phoning to cancel.

Hope you feel better soon either way. All this heat's probably not helping...

[ealuscerwen]

Thank you for your well wishes.

I doubt it's the heat per se - I've been in an air-conditioned office since 9am. I thought earlier that it might be dehydration, but I've drunk several litres of water in the last four hours with no positive effect so have gone off that theory.

Anyway, enough moaning, back to consolidations.

[ealuscerwen]

I've come to a conclusion. Thank you all for your advice. I feel well enough to play, but I'm not convinced I'll play well, so the major concern is my performance.

I've sent Bella an email letting her know I'm not 100% but am well enough to come along and play and would like to. The email tells her that if she's concerned about her club performance ratings (if there are any) we should probably call it off because I'm not sure how far my play will be affected.

I think that's fair warning!

Next day,,,

[bateleur]

...so how did it go ?

Re: Next day,,,

[ealuscerwen]

We played. I'm going to add an edit around lunchtime saying how we did and reporting on the experience ;-)

By the way, if you have a phone number for frax/cardinalsin now they're back, could you pass it on? Thanks.