1. Let your mom make you a huge glass of orange juice and tell you everything will be okay.
2. Eat some salty crackers and have some apple sauce.
3. Take your temperature, even if you don't think your head feels hot, because when you're sick you can't make accurate decisions for yourself.
4. Bring in a truck load of soft, durable tissues.
5. Tell your friends to not call you, hide the Internet (Facebook), and grab a book with an easy to understand plot, so you can drift in and out of sleep while reading.
6. Watch your favorite movies. Like Disney movies. (Or Lord of the Rings, which is what I always end up watching when I'm "under the weather".)
7. Drink liquids and liquids and more liquids.
8. Go close your door, crawl under your covers, and sleep until you can't sleep anymore.
9. Keep any medicine you need, along with a few bottles of water, by your bed. If you wake up with a headache, your Tylenol or Advil will be right there!
10. Try not to feel guilty about taking the rest time you need. Work, school, life... those things will be there when you recover. Take some time for yourself to get better.
Sounds like the perfect prescription! Too bad you have to be sick to have an excuse to read your favorite books, watch movies and nap! We've missed you in class this week. Hope you're feeling better.
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