I\u2019d been dragging around the office all day, all week maybe. My cold was hanging on, just like almost everybody else\u2019s around here. The temperature-in-the-teens didn\u2019t help, but why couldn\u2019t I just suck it up like the rest of my coworkers? They didn\u2019t seem to be complaining, just going about their business, getting the job done.<\/p>\n
In a meeting after lunch, I coughed into the crook of my arm. My kids said that this lingering cold had at least corrected my outdated habit of covering my mouth with my hands, which is a good way to spread germs. I supposed I\u2019d taught my little angels well about trying to find a positive in every situation.<\/p>\n
Back at my desk after the meeting, I saw that someone had left a few cough drops on top of the manuscript I\u2019d given up on. How could I concentrate on editing with this cold? I opened a lozenge and looked more closely at the writing on the little wrapper: \u201cGet back in there, champ!\u201d \u201cFlex your \u2018can do\u2019 muscle.\u201d \u201cYou got it in you.\u201d \u201cHigh five yourself.\u201d \u201cTough is your middle name.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had to laugh\u2014which made me cough! But at least I hadn\u2019t lost my sense of humor. And that was definitely<\/em> positive. At some point I will figure out which office angel sent me the perfect message in a cough drop. For now, I had a manuscript to concentrate on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019d been dragging around the office all day, all week maybe. My cold was hanging on, just like almost everybody else\u2019s around here. The temperature-in-the-teens didn\u2019t help, but why couldn\u2019t I just suck it up like the rest of my coworkers? They didn\u2019t seem to be complaining, just going about their business, getting the job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[19,171],"ppma_author":[468],"class_list":["post-14099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels","tag-angels-on-earth","tag-earth-angel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n