That said, I've definitely called in to things while sick because I didn't have anything better to do. Watching TV all day wasn't going to make me get healthier

That said, I've definitely called in to things while sick because I didn't have anything better to do. Watching TV all day wasn't going to make me get healthier faster than watching a business presentation, and as long as my team understood that I was a little out of it, the normalcy of being "at work" helped me not just feel lazy and terrible.