When you realize the horrible flu missed you and felt lucky enough to celebrate a small victory. As soon as you were pleased to get away with being healthy, Pandora’s box opens and the wretched flu got to you.

1. Freshen Up

Your eyes and nose were red, your skin is deathly pale … Oh, God, you’re an ogre! I crawl out of bed, do the mummy walk towards the bathroom. You have to look like a normal human being for God’s sake!

2. Duty Calls

Instead of staying in bed all day and being miserable because of your illness, you have to be a reasonable adult and do your duties. Mom’s not here to rescue you with a bowl of hot soup.

3. Food And Drinks

The sacred part of your morning ritual is coffee, so you take the “life-saving” sip and then another one till you realize the horrific reality. Logically, when you’re ill you have no sense of taste or smell. When you’re all “dead” inside because of “nature’s gift to humanity” drinking and eating becomes hell on Earth. Your nose is blocked and your throat is sour and that’s when everything becomes a nightmare equal to “shoving a thousand tasteless razor blades” down your throat including the warm drink. Well that’s just great! Going crazy in 3,2,1…

4. Work! Work! Work!

You’ll have to work from home as you have a pressing project deadline. Maybe that’s not that bad, you think to yourself. The problems is you have to use all and create something unique. You have to give e the best you got or else… You put your act together and just do it. It takes countless efforts to write something when, except brainstorming, your whole work process is impaired by your current physical condition.

5. Going to the doctor

You convince yourself it’s not that bad to get checked by a physician every time you’re in front of their office. When the very medical examination begins, you take your thoughts back.

6. Medicine

When you realize homeopathy will not save you and because of the prescription given to me, you unwillingly start the pill therapy. Pink, green, yellow, you name it! Nobody who likes pills. They make you choke like you have to swallow a brick.

7. Shopping

Normally, it doesn’ t make you crazy unless you feel like a walking corpse and the only thing you dream of is your warm and comfortable bed. No one will do it instead of you, so you have no choice. It’s not the very act of choosing, buying food and other supplies, but the long queues before the cash-desks that make you even crazier when you’re ill. The service gets slower and slower in such situations and you feel like it’s going to take ten years to pay for the products and go home.

8. Housework

The only thing you want when your work day is over is have dinner and chill. But in most cases, a busy schedule like yours makes you put off house work tasks like vacuum cleaning, dusting, laundry tidying up and if possible some handyman work for another day. You don’t know where to start from but this is part of your adult life now. You have to deal with everything on your own.

Normally, obligations and situations like these are not that big of a deal if you’re physically fit. However, being unwell complicates your life even more than it actually is and makes it a nightmare by adding more pressure to your daily routine.