Have you tried calling your Doctor?

I think the woman who sits around the corner from me just coughed up a lung. Seriously. She has been coughing all morning and sounds terrible. About 5 minutes ago she stopped and since I didn’t see her walk by I honestly thought that she must have coughed up one, or even both, of her lungs onto her desk and died. I actually got up and walked over to see if she was OK. I looked but there were no major organs on or around her desk so either it/they were under her desk or she just plain old stopped coughing. What WAS on her desk, however, was a carton of orange juice, a box of Kleenex and two bottles of Robitussin cough syrup.

To the coughing woman: this is why we have sick days. Please don’t come in if you sound that bad. I don’t want to catch what you have nor do I want to hear you. And I also don’t want to be so concerned for your well-being that if you actually do stop coughing I feel the need to stand up and walk over to make sure you’re not dead. Thank you.