What Do You Do When You Get Sick?

[*Lost and not Found]

So you are feeling little down, you got yourself a fever, your tummy hurts, and you got your share of the trots. Thus, you'd rather not go beyond the radius of five meters.
So, what would you do?

[*Mr_Otyugh]

Rest, hot tea, rest more, blanket on, rest, watch movie, rest, basically get uncomfortably warm and don't let your mind trick you to try to feel better by cooling off, if you sweat, you're doing it right since that's your bodys way to get rid of the problem, drink more, rest, and snooze a bit.

So far that has done it for me in 24 hours most of times. It can get boring, but just get something to read/watch and keep yourself warm while trying to rest.

[*cryptc]

Dragon Age got me through the Swineflu

[*Daril Blake]

Well this video will exsplain it.

How i deal with my illness

Being more serious,i relax,have a hot drink and get alot of sleep.Easy really.

[*LittleMissWonderful]

I complain.

But, in all fairness, that's how I handle EVERYTHING.

[*Ravel's Heart]

Here's what all the people I know do:

-Go straight to the ER.

-Do not give your real name.

-At all costs, pee immediately before seeing the physician, even if you have no choice but to pee in a corner of the room like an unruly puppy.

-When you finally see the physician, complain of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. Eat the french fries you picked up at Wendy's on the way in.

-Look up from texting everyone you know to tell the ER doc that your pain is an 11 out of 10 on a pain scale, thus demonstrating that your pain is more severe than any pain anyone could possibly have had in the history of the world. They will not be impressed at all with your discomfort if your pain is less than 10. 14 is better.

-Resume texting.

-Continue texting and roll your eyes every time the physician asks a question.

-Become briefly engaged with the physician when discussing the "sleeve tattoos" you have on both arms. Be sure to show all 19 piercings, including the trendy new "spleen piercing" you just got.

-When the nurse comes to draw your blood, emphasize how much you hate needles.

-Tell the nurse that you cannot give a urine sample because you just peed.

-Complain about the channel selection on hospital cable.

-After 15 minutes, begin complaining about how long this is taking.

-Ask when you are getting some pain medicine. Explain that you are allergic to tylenol, toradol, motrin, aspirin, ice, heat, pepto-bismol, bentyl, and reglan. You got some pain medicine before that really helped. You can't remember what it was, but it started with a "D". Dil-something.

-While you are waiting for the escort to wheel you back to your room from the CT scanner (you are not escaping the ER without a CT scan no matter what your complaint is) pee the bed. Explain that you waited for almost 5 minutes and couldn't hold it any longer.

-Complain about how long this is taking.

-Demand to be fed.

-Ask why you have not yet gotten your dilaudid. Accuse the staff of treating you like a junkie.

-Demand to see the nurse supervisor, patient care advocate, and hospital CEO.

-Demand percocet for home once you are discharged. You just know that pain is going to come back.

-If the doctor will not give you dilaudud or percocet, ask to see another physician.

-Tell them that you cannot pay your co-pay today because you left your money at home. Ask them to bill you. You gave a fake name, after all.

-Return to the hospital a week later with a toothache. Repeat this process.

This is also a good approach if you should ever have a seizure.

[*peaceofmind98]

the last time i got 'one more day of this and im going to ER' i bundled up for warmth, ate an drank warm food (what i could eat anyway, like i said i was going to the hospital if it had gone on any longer).

and camped out wrapped like a yeti in the computer chair when i was not drowsy (gotta love me my mmorpgs). when i was not concious enough for the pc, then i was camped out in bed with a bucket and most of the blankets from the bed. I could barely feel my cat on my lap with all the blankets.

and let tv take me from asleep/drowsy/awake and back and forth.

on the last day i had to move from one apt to another. my b/f and his friends moved everything and i packed. [shuffles around in winter slippers in june] "I'm helping! *cough*cough*'

somehow the 'flu' is not a strong enough word to describe my ordeal. then the day after the move i could eat normally and the nausea left as quickly as it had appeared. "i still don't need no stinkin' flu shot!"

[*Product of Void]

Depends on how sick.

Semi sick -deal with it. Go to work live life.

Mind dulling pain - growl, stumble, and eventually after a few hours take asprin. Unless home have a beer.

Head hurts can not focus feel drunk - Take asprin, Tea, and some stuff for colds.

Body is a symphony of pain, mind unable to focus - go home, put willow into Tv do like head hurts curl up in bed tell everyone "leave me alone to die", "go to hell",

Unable to keep lunch down, do like last one just add in holding bucket like life depends on it curl up in ball. Cover eyes and get mad at any question, quit speaking and instead mutter, growl, or speak missing every other letter.

[*Ravel's Heart]

Oh, and what I would do personally is take pepto and imodium, and maybe a little zofran. But you need a prescription for Zofran. I would take sips of Gatorade or flat gingerale, and maybe have some popsicles.

I would take tylenol or motrin for fever or muscle aches.

[*Spiegel1]

. . . I never get sick, the last thing I caught, besides the thrush infection, was a minor cold that went away in three days.