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Damn it all to heaven, I have that weird Alien-like flu virus that's cascading through the cold ass winds of Michigan. I'm dying, I swear to you! I've been vomiting til my stomach has nothing in it then vomiting nothing upon nothing....it sucks. My fever was 102.3 but now it has broke and I feel I can move around again. The puking episode stopped Wednesday around 10:30 at night (right after I got off work). I was so pissed because I just started my new job at Halloween USA that afternoon and I knew I was feeling a little weird (slight fever and sore throat) but I figured it wouldn't effect my first day at work. I was so wrong. I started getting really bad around noon, so I picked up some anti-nausea medicine and a shit load of cold and flue remedies and started nursing myself back to health, I needed to feel better or at least stop puking by 3:30 because I had to be at my new job by 4p.m. I managed to do it, I made it into work, no calling off on my first day, fuck that. So I get there and James is all smiles when he sees me until he got up close and saw the dark circles under my eyes and the flushed cheeks. Then he frowned and said, "What's wrong with you?" I lied and said, "Nothing, just a little winded from running around trying to do what needed to be done and make it here on time is all." His smile returned and he gave me my section of the store to work. It was cool until the medicine started wearing off and I felt like heaving in a smelly old womans face she was too close and her nasty fumes made me need to hurl. So I grabbed Lisa out of kids to cover my section and I ran to the bathroom as discretely as I could to hurl a little and then take the last of the anti-nausea medicine. I came back and James was waiting outside the restroom. He said, "I saw you duck in here looking like you were gonna spew, so I came to check on you. I heard you getting sick, sounds pretty bad, why didn't you just call me?" I smiled weakly and said, "Now what kinda bullshit is that to hire someone and then they call off their first day because of some bug? You already had to fire two bitches for calling off for a whole week because of this same virus and I wasn't about to be bitch number three." He laughed and said, "I didn't really like those bitches though, I like you and that's what matters, so do you wanna go home and get some rest or what?" I shook my head, "Nah, James, I took the last of my meds and should be alright until closing time." So we continued through the shift with few troubles. I ate a couple of Fig Newtons and for some reason that was a bad idea and my stomach made me reject that almost as quick as I ate them. So basically I just drank lots and lots of water throughout my shift. When it was all said and done James congratulated me on being such a trooper and said the other two bitches he fired would never have stuck it out and dealt with their flu thing like I was dealing with it. I wasn't looking at the health code violation of working while infectious. I was looking at it in the sense of I gotta keep this job and work my ass off to make extra money so the kids get a good Christmas this year instead of a shitty one like last year. I want to be able to afford a tree and yard decorations and make it all magical for the kids damn it and no stupid alien-flu illness is gonna fuck that up. I went to my other job today and was sent home because I am a waitress and acting healthy while waiting tables then coughing up lung chunks when I'm in my station and my customers can see me struggling to compose myself as a perfectly healthy happy smiley server my manager had to cut me loose. So I made a whole 12 dollars and some change before being sent home after an hour of work. That was a waste of gas really. So I've slept most of the day away and now I feel much better accept for the throat still being a little sore. Hopefully I'll get through both of my jobs tomorrow without being sent home early. I'm pulling a 12 hour shift tomorrow. 5 at Halloween USA and 7 at Steak N Shake. Wish me luck.