Getting Sick

I cannot verbalize how much I hate getting sick. I can tell when it's going to happen and it's just like "Oh no. Not this". I guess 'everyone's different' but it's pretty safe to say that we all hate getting sick. In my case, my nose gets plugged up (eww gross!), my ears feel weird (what?), and my head gets real fuzzy which basically means one constant headache (in a way). And even though I can hardly breathe through my nose it gets runny so I have to carry a box of kleenex around school (talk about being socially awkward, like blowing your nose in your hand-held-kleenex-box in the middle of a conversation). 

And I totally didn't need to write that...

What really bums me about being sick, though, is that my energy gets zapped so quickly. I'll be having a great time with my friends (and don't forget the box of kleenexes!) and then I just want to sleep. It's hard for me to smile and laugh when all I want to do is curl up in a ball and sleep everything off. Walking up stairs has me breathing as heavy as ever with a heart rate through the roof...and I'm like, "Seriously? You're exhausted from stairs???"

Even though there's nothing I can do but wait it out while taking one Mucinex a night and spraying my nose with saline I still wish I had a wand to make it all go away - well, everyone does, right?

-- Purple Boots --