update from a sick girl who is in dyer need of medicine

I never realized how much I needed my parents until I got to college. Of course I appreciated them before, but now that I’m doing everything on my own I realize how much my parents did for me. I am especially missing my parents this week because I am slowly losing my mind from being sick. At home when I was sick my mom would make me warm chicken noodle soap and hot chocolate with mini marshmallows floating on the top and she always knew what medicine would make me feel better. I am totally a daddy’s girl when it comes to most things, but when I’m sick all I want is my mom. At home I have a whole cabinet full of all different kinds of medicine for different issues, but at college I have nothing. I totally forgot to bring medicine. Do I have any way of getting medicine? No, I don’t have a car and all my friends are busy. I have already had a rough day getting through all my classes and having volleyball practice. Let me tell you something, playing a sport while you are sick is not fun. As I played I was clammy and I could barely breathe. We did a serving drill where if you don’t get twenty serves into a certain spot on the court before you miss ten then you have to run five sprints. Just my luck we didn’t get all the serves and had to run. As I ran back and forth from the end line to the net I could feel my heart racing and my chest tightening making it hard to breathe. As we finished the sprints I was so glad practice was over. I don’t think I could have lasted any longer. After practice all I wanted to do was go back to my dorm take some medicine and go to sleep. Then it hit me, I have no medicine to take. Who will give me medicine? Who is going to make me feel better? All I wanted was a nice little pill that would relieve me of my stuffy nose and let me sleep. I asked around to see if anyone had medicine but no one did. I asked the other freshman if anyone would walk with me to CVS to get some medicine, but all of them were busy. I was out of luck. I had no medicine and no way of going out and getting it. At this point I was thinking, man I wish my parents were here now.  If they were here they could drive me to the store and buy me medicine, and they could take me to chick fil a and get me a cookies and cream milkshake to soothe my aching throat.  But my parents aren’t here so that didn’t happen. So I go back to my dorm and used up all my tissues blowing my nose. It’s eleven thirty and I decide I might as well get some sleep. This brings me to issue number two. It’s eleven thirty at night and all I want to do is sleep. Can I do this? No. I lay in bed tossing and turning. One leg over the cover with one under; then I shift, with my whole body under the covers, too hot.  I lay on top of the covers, too cold. Not only was I wide-awake, but also every five minutes I had to get up to blow my nose. I ran out of tissues so I had to use napkins, which made my nose burn. Lovely evening I have been having. (Note the sarcasm) Every few times I blew my nose I looked over at the clock and saw the time ticking away. Eleven thirty then twelve then twelve thirty and one.  Miraculously I was able to go to sleep around one thirty and was able to sleep through the whole night.  Note to self for the future, don’t forget to bring medicine when you go away places!! Next time my parent’s come to visit I am going out and we are buying medicine, hot chocolate, marshmallows, and chicken noodle soap. Nothing could be as comforting as being home when you are sick, but at least next time I’m sick I’ll have a few things to make me feel better.

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