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I teach first grade in Warwick. I went to the doctor this morning before school, had cortisone injected into my ankle and was on time for school. While I limped around all day, my students and I had a fantastic day in school today. My students sang a song about pumpkins to me that they learned in music class when I picked them up. When we were "boo-ed" and the students were choosing from the erasers that another class mysteriously surprised us with, one student gave up her eraser unprompted because she said "it meant more to the other student." My heart was warmed today numerous times as my students helped each other with the many things we learned today. When I am with my students, I LOVE my job.

That being said, I am on day 21 of a cold which turned into a sinus infection and am almost finished with round 1 of antibiotics. I am thinking a call to my doctor for a different antibiotic is in the near future. Today alone, I was directly sneezed on twice and felt droplets from being coughed on at least 3 times. I have not taken a single sick day this year despite this sickness. My point with all this is that I work in a germ factory. I knew this going in and am okay with getting sick more often than the general population in exchange for the privilege to teach. But if teachers need sick days, they need sick days. There isn't enough hand sanitizer in the world to protect you from a first grader sneezing on you.