Things to do When You are Feeling too Sick to Leave Your Bed
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When you are feeling sick with the flu or a cold and can't leave your bed, it can get boring to be stuck on the "sick and shut-in" list for days or even weeks. Here are some things to do to make the most of your time off:
- Sleep. Sleep as much as possible to rest yourself and build up your energy. Sleep in late and take naps. Don't worry about being on a schedule. You need your rest.
- Comfort Yourself. Cuddle with your pet, stuffed animals or favorite blanket. Put on your favorite PJs or t-shirt.
- Drink. Have your water and other liquids nearby you at all times so that you will remember to stay hydrated. Yes, you will have to get up and pee. However, you will be flushing toxins out of your body. So, drink up.
- Food. Get some food delivered (if you can afford) or have a friend drop something by your home. Treat yourself to something you like and want to eat.
- Music. Put on the tunes. Listen to some music, stream some Pandora radio on your computer, watch some Youtube music videos.
- Movie Time. Sick of reruns? Watch some movies. Watch some DVDs, steam some movies, catch up on some Lifetime movies or PBS documentaries.
- Read. Catch up on your trashy magazines, comic books or some other equally mindless reading. Take a peek at some fan fiction online, gossip blogs, sports columns, horoscopes or other mindless topics to read about and take your mind of your sickness. Start a book that you have been waiting for the time to read or reread one of your all time favorites.
- Game Time. Play games online. You don’t have to be stuck with solitaire. There are plenty of sites to play free games. Were you a fan of Atari? Go to their website and remember your childhood by playing some free games. Free games are also available on Swagbucks (you can get paid Swagbucks for playing and earn prizes or gift cards) and Facebook has lots of games. Free crossword puzzles are available and online jigsaw puzzles (you can control the difficulty levels so if you really don’t feel like thinking you can do the easy ones).
- Followers Anyone? Build up your followers and friends lists. Go onto your Twitter and rack up on followers or go on Facebook and look-up old pals and friend them.
- Hubbertime. Connect with Hubpages. Read some articles. Write some articles or re-edit some of your old articles, catch up on your comments and find some folks to follow.
- Shopping. Visit your favorite sites such as Ebay and Amazon. Do some online window shopping and build up some wish lists of stuff you would buy if you had some money.
- Picture time. Go on a site like Pinterest and post up pictures of stuff you like, things that make you happy and find pictures to repin on your site that uplift your spirits.
Most of the online stuff is a lot easier if you have a laptop or tablet so that you don't have to leave your bed.
The most important tip:
- Leave worry behind. Don’t think about how much you have to do or what you are missing out on. Worrying will not help. Just get better and concentrate on keeping hydrated so that you can get better.
