Fringe Benefits of Sickness

Today I realized once again how many people I have to call when I'm sick. I call my boss at the staffing agency, my boss at the school district, my boss at the nursing home, and I email whoever I have meetings with that day. It's exhausting. A surprising amount of work when you're sick.

The reason I'm sick is because I ate at this dirty little Taco Bell last night. I shouldn't have done that. I should have known that after a few days of eating super-light diet food, a dinner of greasier-than-normal chalupas and Pepsi wouldn't sit well. I should have known, but didn't. So I spent a good chunk of last night throwing up. I almost went in to work today since what I have isn't contagious, but then a rumble deep in my stomach told me that the fun wasn't over yet, so I elected to stay home.

There is one amazingly comforting fact about staying home, though...I get to spend an entire day doing what my body wants me to do.

In my last entry I wrote about how old I feel, and I think part of that is because I spend most of my day telling my body to do things that it doesn't want to do.

Yeah, I know you want to sleep, but it's 5:30 and that means time to wake up.

I know you have to go to the bathroom, but we have two more sessions of therapy before lunch, so you'll just have to wait.

I know you're craving fruit, but all we have is this vending machine, so Skittles will have to do.

It sucks after awhile. At my last doctor visit she informed me that I'd have to start drinking a lot more water, but instead of paying attention to the health benefits she was outlining (one of which was the fact that I'd stop fainting so much) I kept saying things like, "You want me to drink how much? I'll be going to the bathroom how often? I don't have time for that! I'm busy!"

Not so when I'm sick. When I'm sick I eat what I want when I want it, drink what I want when I want it, sleep when I need it, and can sit in the bathroom all day if I please. In a way, it's nice.

Too bad it comes with so much vomiting.

Ah well. This can't last long. I'm sure I'll be back to abusing my body tomorrow.