I DO NOT like being sick! I make the worst sick person
EVER! I am not good at holding still and
I am not good at staying in bed….I can’t stand having a day go by when I cannot
be productive! For me, feeling
unproductive hurts almost worse than the aches and pains of being sick! And yet today I have been stuck in bed
sick….ALL DAY! Sniffling, sneezing,
coughing, aching…you name it…I got it. I
suppose its my own fault for pushing myself so hard the last few weeks, but
gosh darn it being sick sucks! And so
before I guzzle a bottle of Nyquil to put myself to sleep for the night I
thought it best to FIRST write my blog, since anyone who has seen me on Nyquil
will tell you that the last thing I should be doing after I take it is writing
anything to anyone :) …….although I am
sure whatever I wrote would end up quite entertaining :)
It’s funny because as a kid it was a total party to have a
cold and need a sick day from school where you got to stay home in bed all
day. It was like the best day ever to a
kid! Mom made you chicken soup and you
got to watch cartoons all day…getting to take a sick day was fantastic as a
kid! But as an adult it just doesn’t
have the same appeal. Sure you get to
take a day off work, but that just means you will have double the work to do
tomorrow! And there is no mom there to bring you chicken soup and cartoon
network just doesn’t have the same appeal anymore. No sick days for adults are just not fun….
And so to add a little fun to everyone’s life on my sick day
I thought I would share a favorite Shel Silverstein poem called Sick that
always makes me smile:
Sick
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and
purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my
throat is dry,
I’m going blind in my
right eye.
My tonsils are as big
as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen
chicken pox
And there’s one
more–that’s seventeen,
And don’t you think
my face looks green?
My leg is cut–my eyes
are blue–
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze
and gasp and choke,
I’m sure that my left
leg is broke–
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button’s
caving in,
My back is wrenched,
my ankle’s sprained,
My ‘pendix pains each
time it rains.
My nose is cold, my
toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my
thumb.
My neck is stiff, my
voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when
I speak.
My tongue is filling
up my mouth,
I think my hair is
falling out.
My elbow’s bent, my
spine ain’t straight,
My temperature is
one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I
cannot hear,
There is a hole
inside my ear.
I have a hangnail,
and my heart is–what?
What’s that? What’s
that you say?
You say today is. .
.Saturday?
G’bye, I’m going out
to play!”
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