Listen to the Doctor

Back to running today YIPEE- its been 10 days since I last ran. Easy 5 miles just to make sure everything was OK after my cold (and curry the previous night!). 5.1 miles in 50min 10, good base training stuff I suppose.

Tried to make an appointment to see the Doc but was told that she was fully booked today and then out for the rest of the week. Bit of a problem my sick note runs out Wednesday. Explaine the situation to the receptionist who said not a problem and made a telephone appointment for this afternoon.

Called the Doc at the given time and had a chat. Although I'm feeling a lot better, her professional judgement was that I should not go back to work yet. Her reasoning was that I've only been on Prozac for 2 weeks and the first week can be really horrible ( I noticed!!), she would rather I gave it a couple more weeks to really settle down before doing anything else. I really wanted to go back to work, but she is the expert so I decided to follow her advice. I'm now on sick leave until 3rd Jan. I've to see her between Christmas and New Year and we can make a start/no start decision then.

2 weeks ago when I was told to stay off I was gutted and felt really down. Today I wasn't too bothered. I'd like to go back but not at the risk of the making things worse. Phoned the boss to tell him - his words where "That's an opinion I fully support". We've arranged to meet at Starbucks near work this week to have a chat about this and that.

See I do listen