[kirklancaster]

There's not such a thing when you're self-employed. I once had a deadline to finish major renovation on a client's home, and was bedding ridge tiles on the hipped roof of a stone porch I had built as part of the works. I stumbled (ironically) when on the ground, and ended up having a pot on at the hospital for a broken ankle. I was back at work the next day because if I hadn't I would have lost several hundred pounds a day for going over time.

I am the same with illness - I usually dope myself up with pain killers, medicine etc, then just 'soldier on'.

The only thing I don't agree with is people who have infectious or contagious illnesses who still go into work or send their kids to school suffering from such etc.