What to do when you don't feel well at camp:
1) Fight through it for a day or so with minimum comments and try to get to bed as early as possible.
2) Sleep didn't help? Engage in an inner battle with yourself to figure out if this is imagined due to sleep deprivation or an actual spreadable illness.
3) Go talk to the nurse. Get a plan of action together. Including your distaste of going to the doctor.
4) Keep talking it out. Not just with your hypochondriacal germa-phobe office mate, but with people with a sound mind and equal interest in camp and your personal well being, i.e. directors.
5) Decide that since you and your roommate have similar symptoms and she's been sick for longer, it's time to seek a professional.
6) Get down the hours the walk-in is open and drive to town with said roommate.
7) Discover that she changed her hours in the past week.
8) Drive back to camp.
9) Drive back to the walk-in clinic, whilst making joke, "Just watch, we'll get there and there will be a sign that says, "the doctor is sick, come back tomorrow."
10) Enter the walk in clinic to have the receptionist say, "She's been sick, can you come back later." (Not joking)
11) Make an "appointment" for later (i.e. she writes our names on a post-it note)
11) Drive back to camp.
12) Take a nap.
13) Drive back to the clinic.
14) Fill out paperwork.
15) Discover that according to her standards you are not lazy, but moderately active.
16) Wait while your roommate, who got her name on the sticky note first, sees the nurse.
17) Ask for the restroom, then decide to hold it, because after a day like this, she's probably going to ask for a pee test, five minutes after you handle your business.
18) Discover your roommate has strep.
19) Have your throat swabbed.
20) Wait five minutes then listen while the nurse talks herself into believing she sees a "faint red line" and then try to remain non-committal when she asks if you see the phantom indicator.
21) Go to ingles and fill your prescription and buy 2 pints of blueberries, a bag of dried mango, and a Tobelrone bar while you wait.
22) Drive back to camp and tell the people.
23) Spend 24 hours in quarantine with your same roommate.
24) Sleep
25) Listen to music
26) Forage for food because you missed dinner waiting at ingles
27) Finish season one of Arrested Development
28) Sleep
29) Take antibiotics
30) Sleep
31) Wake up
32) Eat oatmeal
33) Take pills
34) Finish Hercules
35) Sleep
36) Eat food
37) Sleep
38) Start season two of Arrested Development
39) Listen to music
40) Sleep
41) Watch an old Steve Martin movie
42) Lie and stare at the ceiling
43) Decide you get to return to the world at dinner
44) Pack up the room
45) Wait for the kids to clear out of free time at the lodge
46) Write this blog post
47) Watch your stir crazy roommate spring back into action
48) Prepare your "I'm not sick or contagious speech" for your hypochondriacal germa-phobe partner
49) Listen to music and finsh the blog post
50) Go about life.
1) Fight through it for a day or so with minimum comments and try to get to bed as early as possible.
2) Sleep didn't help? Engage in an inner battle with yourself to figure out if this is imagined due to sleep deprivation or an actual spreadable illness.
3) Go talk to the nurse. Get a plan of action together. Including your distaste of going to the doctor.
4) Keep talking it out. Not just with your hypochondriacal germa-phobe office mate, but with people with a sound mind and equal interest in camp and your personal well being, i.e. directors.
5) Decide that since you and your roommate have similar symptoms and she's been sick for longer, it's time to seek a professional.
6) Get down the hours the walk-in is open and drive to town with said roommate.
7) Discover that she changed her hours in the past week.
8) Drive back to camp.
9) Drive back to the walk-in clinic, whilst making joke, "Just watch, we'll get there and there will be a sign that says, "the doctor is sick, come back tomorrow."
10) Enter the walk in clinic to have the receptionist say, "She's been sick, can you come back later." (Not joking)
11) Make an "appointment" for later (i.e. she writes our names on a post-it note)
11) Drive back to camp.
12) Take a nap.
13) Drive back to the clinic.
14) Fill out paperwork.
15) Discover that according to her standards you are not lazy, but moderately active.
16) Wait while your roommate, who got her name on the sticky note first, sees the nurse.
17) Ask for the restroom, then decide to hold it, because after a day like this, she's probably going to ask for a pee test, five minutes after you handle your business.
18) Discover your roommate has strep.
19) Have your throat swabbed.
20) Wait five minutes then listen while the nurse talks herself into believing she sees a "faint red line" and then try to remain non-committal when she asks if you see the phantom indicator.
21) Go to ingles and fill your prescription and buy 2 pints of blueberries, a bag of dried mango, and a Tobelrone bar while you wait.
22) Drive back to camp and tell the people.
23) Spend 24 hours in quarantine with your same roommate.
24) Sleep
25) Listen to music
26) Forage for food because you missed dinner waiting at ingles
27) Finish season one of Arrested Development
28) Sleep
29) Take antibiotics
30) Sleep
31) Wake up
32) Eat oatmeal
33) Take pills
34) Finish Hercules
35) Sleep
36) Eat food
37) Sleep
38) Start season two of Arrested Development
39) Listen to music
40) Sleep
41) Watch an old Steve Martin movie
42) Lie and stare at the ceiling
43) Decide you get to return to the world at dinner
44) Pack up the room
45) Wait for the kids to clear out of free time at the lodge
46) Write this blog post
47) Watch your stir crazy roommate spring back into action
48) Prepare your "I'm not sick or contagious speech" for your hypochondriacal germa-phobe partner
49) Listen to music and finsh the blog post
50) Go about life.
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