Have you ever had one of those days when nothing seemed to go right?  Well, I’ve had one of those weeks.

As many of you know, I missed the last hour of Tuesday’s Good Morning Indiana because I felt ill.  I started feeling better after the show and even wrote in my blog about how I had turned the corner and was back to my old self.  Well… about 10 minutes after I posted the blog, I started feeling sick again.  My caring co-workers were really looking out for me.  Dan quickly volunteered to do my Good Morning America cut-ins and asked me if I was heading home.  Julie urged me to go home, as did Judy, one of our producers.  I kept telling them that I could make it through the rest of the morning.  My heart was in it… but the rest of my body just didn’t want to cooperate.  I left the station around 9:30.

Then another saga unfolded.  My husband encouraged me to go and see a doctor.  My regular doctor couldn’t see me, so I just popped into one of those quick medical care places.  Let me just say that I arrived there shortly before 10 and didn’t get home until around 5.  No one could figure out what was wrong with me.  They thought maybe it was kidney stones… or perhaps I needed an emergency appendectomy.   I was finally sent home, although one doctor mentioned a possible overnight stay in a hospital.

Yesterday I finally got in to see my regular doctor and she told me I probably had a case of food poisoning.  I’m guessing the culprit was my morning yogurt drink.  Needless to say, I’ll be getting my morning calcium from another source.

On top of feeling ill, I couldn’t help but feel guilty about all of the things I needed to take care of this week.  I anticipated getting back to work on Thursday, so I could get everything done.  Well… this morning I walked into the newsroom and the producers didn’t seem happy to see me.  Imagine that??  They actually seemed disappointed.  I have to tell you… I was a little hurt.  I then discovered that I was supposed to be off today.  Now who in their right mind shows up to work on a day they’re supposed to be off?  I remembered that I was scheduled off for tomorrow, but I didn’t remember I had also asked to have today off.  (sigh)  I suddenly felt sick to my stomach again.  Should I go home and try to enjoy my day off… or should I stick around?  Well, as you know, I decided I just had too much to do, so I might as well stick around.  Of course, my surprise arrival meant the director and producer had to scramble to include me in the show.  Talk about guilt.  All morning I was convinced that they hated me.  After all, I messed up Tuesday’s show and now I managed to destroy their Thursday rundown, as well.  I guess I won’t get employee of the month for July.

I’ve decided that this has just been one of those weeks.  I will be off tomorrow… and no, I won’t show up.  I promise.  I’ll probably spend part of the day throwing out all of my yogurt drinks and going over my calendar.