Sick of Being Sick

Stages of being ill:

1. Colleague at work starts sneezing. Sneezer-Colleague
2. 'I told you so'-Colleague says: "you should have had the flu shot this year"
3. You brag about not having caught a cold in over 6 years
4. Hypochondriac-Colleague starts coughing
5. Sneezer-Colleague calls in sick
6. You start sneezing... No!
7. 'I told you so'-Colleague says: "you should have had the flu shot this year"
8. Your head aches
9. Your skin turns the shade of grey that no makeup can hide
10. Cautious-Colleague recommends you to go home
11. No! you won't succumb to a cold. You brag about not having caught a cold in over 6 years and  try to fight symptoms by taking vitamins, eating oranges, wearing layers... But it's too late
12. Your nose starts running. Constantly
13. You take a box of tissues to every meeting
14. Your nose blocks
15. You start breathing with your mouth. As a consequence, you are thirsty all of the time
16. Food loses its taste
17. You're told to go home. You resist
18. Your voice becomes manly. And echoed...
19. Your eyes start watering without reason
20. Ears stop registering sounds
21. Welcome to life in a bubble!
22. Your brain doesn't catch up with the outer-bubble world making your sentences incoherent
23. Your skin begins to ache
24. You surrender, admit that you're sick and go home
25. Feeling vulnerable, you crawl into bed with the sole aim of not getting out
26. Mummy!!!!
27. You toss and turn in bed, your cough impeding you to get any sleep
28. You're bored
29. Change base camp to sofa
30. You're bored
31. Change base camp to bed. Can't sleep
32. You're bored
33. Mummy!!!
34. You're so bored and miserable that you go back to work
35. Cautious-Colleague asks whether it is a good idea for you to be back so soon
36. You pretend to be 100% recovered
37. An ear pops. You feel the happiest person in the world
38. A nostril decongests. Yey!!
39. Cautious-Colleague starts sneezing and gives you a killer look