Nobody likes being sick period. Well let me tell you some shit. For the past five days I have been sweating, aching, s******g, p*****g, vomiting, running a fever and feeling more miserable than I imagine I am making the people around me feel. I am a soon-to-be 23-year-old man but when I get sick like this, I transform into a helpless toddler who doesn't know his ass from his elbow. Growing up I drove my mother crazy staying home sick, but mothers don't come to college with you. Especially when you're 14 hours away. Lets take a look at "what to expect when you feel like death."
Expect any plans you may have had to be completely ruined
You'll find yourself stuck on the couch surrounded by blankets, medicine and Gatorade while your friends and co-workers are out at $1 beer night. The guys wanna play pick-up softball game but you can barely walk to the fridge. Your girlfriend wants to go to the pool and you look at her like she's a crazy person. Being sick means you get to do two things and two things only, rest and feel shitty.
Be prepared to run through clothes
Being sick usually offers one major way to rid yourself of the illness...sweat. You have to sweat it out. You take medicine that makes you sweat, wrap yourself in warm clothes and blankets and some may even go as far as going to the sauna. Sweat and sickness go together like peanut butter and jelly. Be prepared to have extra clothes at hand because more likely than not you'll wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat with your clothes soaked through.
Annoy the crap out of your girlfriend
Girlfriends are a curtail part of getting better when you're sick. They'll make sure you eat, take your medicine, stay hydrated and take it easy. Basic tasks like changing the thermostat in the room, filling up water cups and even just walking to bed from the couch seem near impossible. Your girlfriend will be there to carry your weight to bed, bring you the Brita, and make it cold when you're hot and hot when you're cold. Realize doing all these things is not fun for them but they love you and know you need help. Make sure you don't forget all that they did and treat them to something nice when you're better.
You'll watch movies that are aired back-to-back
It will be late at night, while you are watching basic cable, when you'll wrap up a popular movie being aired. To most people's displeasure, the same movie comes back on again starting right back at the beginning. When you are sick that displeasure does not exist. You have nothing else to do and, honestly, you feel too lousy to even care. It's not like your brain is actually processing what is going on; you just like the sounds and the light from the TV being on.
Being sick is fun for no one. I personally feel like these past five days have been among the most miserable days in a very long time. Do yourselves a favor and wash your damn hands.
