Sick

So for those of you who don't know I am sick. About 3 weeks ago a developed a cough that was so bad I couldn't work for 5 days because not many customers want to talk to someone who spends 3/4 of the phone conversation coughing in your ear. I finally broke down after I had the cough for 7 days and went to instant care to see what was going on. My only symptom at the time was this horrible nasty cough. The doctor was a little confused but because of symptoms he ruled out bacteria, virus, and allergies but thought that my lungs might be inflamed so he prescribed some steroids to help with the inflammation, a couch suppressant during the day and cough syrup with codeine (sp?) to help me sleep. He said I should feel better after 2 days. Well I took the steroids for the 5 days and there was no change except while on the steroids it didn't hurt so much to cough. The cough suppressant did diddly squat. the only thing that seamed to work is the codeine helped me sleep (my roommates tell me that I still coughed in my sleep). Wednesday I took the last of the cough suppressants and nothing seemed to change. Friday but cough seemed a little better so I was hoping that just relaxing this weekend and watching conference (which was amazing) would help me to get better. Sunday though my coughing was worse and I was starting to cough up phlegm a lot and in threw up once which caused me to see stars. I felt hot all day so I think I had a fever but I never really checked. I went to bed and woke up with a headache that I thought might be because my blood sugar was high from all the starch that I ate that day. I was going to check my blood sugar but instead I started coughing and threw up blood. It was not a lot of blood but it was not little flecks of blood from coughing to hard. I called my roommate to wake her up and we went to the ER. My roommate texted some guys to meet us at the ER to give me a blessing. While in the waiting room at the ER I e-mailed my customer service manager and the VP of Sales (rather my roommate texted for me because I was getting my vitals taken) and told them I was in the ER and I don't think I was going to make it to work. I also texted the VP of sales and said why I was in the ER. The people in the ER when they heard what had been happening didn't seem to concerned that I was throwing up blood since it was not a lot. They had me blow out hard on this breathing thing to measure something and then I had to breath in this smoke stuff for like 2 min and then to the breath out hard thing again. They also did a chest x-ray. Here are their conclusions I have pneumonia and there is a possibility that I also have whooping cough but the test results for that won't be back for 2 more days. We got home at 4 am and I normally get up at 5 am so really there was no way I was going to go to work. I went to bed and when I got up this morning I e-mailed my supervisor as well as the customer service manager and let them know that I was OK and that the doctors think I have pneumonia and whooping cough. Told them i have a face mask that I am suppose to wear around people but I was not sure how well the customers will understand me through the face mask. I thought I would get back an e-mail saying I am glad that it was nothing serious get better and all that good stuff but no I got an e-mail saying "When are you going to be back? We were down like 6 people today and this has got to stop." My reaction was I read this was I am sorry that I was throwing up blood, spent the night in the ER and that I have a highly contagious disease but I will get right over to work so that I can possible make the situation worse and oh yeah get everyone else at work sick as well. I didn't want to sound mean so I didn't e-mail that back I just wrote back tomorrow.
I think I might go above him and let my VP of sales know as well as my COO and CEO and let them know that how I felt with that e-mail as well as see what they would like to do so we don't have a company wide epidemic and have to close our doors until the company gets better because we don't have anyone to take the orders or to make their products. I don't want to just sit at home but I don't want to get my co-workers sick either.
Just thought I would let the world know what is going on in my life. I am off to rest and try to get better by tomorrow since I can't be gone anymore because you know I have been taking this nice vacation and all.