A few years ago my coworkers and I were working a tight schedule with unrealistic deadlines and my boss said, "No one call in sick!!" Well, one morning, I slipped my foot into a dress shoe and felt a horrible sting. I went to work, but I could barely walk from the parking lot to the office building. By lunch my foot was swollen to twice its size and I could not wear my shoe. And, to get about I had to rest a knee on the seat of my office chair and kick off with the other foot as if I were riding a scooter. I never complained, but before I went to lunch my boss gave in and let me go home. That afternoon, I went to the doctor who said I must have been bitten by a recluse, but I don't think it was that bad. Regardless, I couldn't walk on it for a week.