I acquired a cough on my last trip. Thankfully it hasn’t made me feel too crummy, but I sound awful. 

My schedule had three days of standby, yesterday, today and tomorrow. I was really hoping I wouldn’t get called in but alas Wednesday night, the night before my first standby day in the three I got an email. 

I really thought up until that moment of getting that email I would be fine. However, as soon as I saw they were putting me on a 7 day trip the panic took hold. 

With this cough, where I sound like a raspy grandma and every time I breath deep I sound like I am coughing up a lung, I feel comfortable doing a 3 day trip but a 7 day trip gave me so much anxiety. 

It killed me to have to call out but overall I knew I made the right decision.