Well, this has been a month. Today was my first day back at work after being out sick a week.
I must have caught a cold from one of my clients. I started to feel it coming on during the Reiki class two Saturdays ago. I had adjusted my shields so it hopefully would not spread to my students.
I kept thinking I might get better enough to get in to work at some point, so I didn't immediately cancel my entire schedule. I ended up calling the scheduled clients the night before they were to come in. Some rescheduled while others told me they would call.
Now, if I still worked in an office, I would have been out a couple of days, and then gone back in, not too concerned with how contagious I would be. I can't do that with the work I do now. I need to make sure I am completely free of whatever I caught or I will just pass it on to everyone I touch.
The bad thing is that this has been a really bad month business-wise. People spent all their money over the holidays, and weren't spending anything they didn't need to now. So, being out a week unable to work has not helped.