When you're sick, each day feels like a decade. Here is what your average sick day might look like!

1) You feel miserable.

Your head aches, your throat feels like sandpaper, and you feel like you need to make a clear path to the bathroom, just in case.

2) Relief

Once you decide to skip class or use a sick day at work, or have a parent call your school and tell them you’re home sick, you get a little excited that you don’t have to worry about doing work and maintaining focus when you feel so poorly.

3) Sleep

You go back to bed and sleep for a couple hours. You wake feeling a bit better, but still undeniably sick.

4) Waking up to realities

You wake up realizing that you used a sick day on actually being sick, and won’t be able to play hooky and go to the beach for a long weekend this summer

5) Lunchtime hunger

You are hungry but don’t want to have to make yourself lunch. You lie in bed for thirty minutes, wrestling with the idea of just starving before rolling out of bed to heat up some soup. Or waffles.

6) Guilt

You feel a bit guilty, because you’re starting to feel better and you think you maybe could’ve gone to school or work after all.

7) ....Then again...

Oh, never mind; there’s a marathon of Patrick Swayze movies on, too! Good thing you stayed home after all.

8) Resignation

By dinner time, you concede to the fact that you’re healthy enough to go back to your regularly scheduled tasks, and head to bed early.

9) The next day

You wake up the next day….maybe one more sick day, and then you’ll feel better!