Disease Disease

On Friday morning, I woke up with a tingle in my throat, but nothing could bother me since my mother was coming home for a ten day trip. All day I felt a slight scratch in my throat but took no notice of it assuming that it would just go away. I was mistaken, very mistaken. It just worsened up until the point where I could not go five minutes without letting out a cough or a sneeze. In frustration a pulled through the weekend and studied for a large chemistry test that was going to be on Monday in the incorrect assumption that I would be fine by Monday. Monday morning: just gets worse. I did not go to school for the first couple periods of the day put really wanted to get this chemistry test over with so after much begging I convinced my mother to take my to school. After taking the test, I rubbed my nose on the sandpaper which they call "tissues" at school for the rest of the day. Exhausted I returned home and tried to begin doing homework, at which point I decided that I could and went to bed at 9:30 after taking two pills that were meant to help me sleep, but were pathetic and did absolutely nothing for me. After a restless night I woke up the next morning with a headache and my mother told me I should take the day off and just rest or I would just get worse and not be able to go to the trip to Disneyland/LA I and my friends have been looking forward to for such a long time in the next week. Unwillingly I dozed off, but was awakened by five or six threatening texts from my best friend's whose birthday was unfortunately today. All I understand from this experience is that we should all just do our best to avoid getting sick. There is absolutely no silver lining to being sick. Sleeping becomes a challenge every night. My trash can is filled to the brim with tissues. I can only breathe through my mouth so brushing my teeth is an unwanted adventure. Though going to school is stressful, staying at home seems more stressful since I am lonely and bored. The lesson here: stay as healthy as possible. Do whatever it takes, because being sick is not fun. Just look at the word "disease." Dissect it and you get "dis" + "ease" because that is what being sick does to you: cause you to have a lack of ease in life.

Living One Day At A Time.
Avni