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Things you do when you are sick

How to deal with being sick

Peggy Louise Mosley
Sep 19, 2016
Oklahoma Baptist University
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Things you do when you are sick

We do some of these things if not all of them when we are sick. I mean who could blame a sick person for their actions? Most are super medicated and can't remember most of things that went on for the time we are sick. Here are 15 things you can do when you're sick.

1. Debate with yourself if you are sick or dying.

2. Refuse to call your mom for help because you an adult, or call your mom and cry about being sick.

3. Debate going to class because there might be a quiz.

4. Email your professors that you won't be going to class, apologize multiply times in the email.

5. Raid your fist aid kit for medicine that might help.

6. Sleep for three hours straight in the middle of the day.

7. Stare at the food you have, knowing that if you ate anything it wouldn't stay down for long.

8. Beg your friends to run to the store for; food, medicine, coloring books, anything that might help you.

9. Wished that you called mom or call your mom to beg her to come take care of you.

10. Sleep some more.

11. Hate that you can only breath though your mouth

12. Move all of your blankets on to your bed and sleep some more.

13. Binge watch TLC, or your favorite show on Netflix

14. Take all the medicine so you can hang out with your friends

15. Do homework that got emailed to you.


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