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You
couldn't wait to go off on your own... off to
the dream land of college with its abundance of
freedom and good times. Of course, that's until
you started sniffling. And those sniffles turned
into sneezes. Then the sneezes erupted into an
inflated-head migraine. You've been bitten by
the flu bug... and so have your roomies. When
your feverish cries of "Mom?!" "Mom?!"
go unanswered (you are, after all, miles and miles
away!), what are you to do?
by
Leah Bloom
Picture
this: Three under-the-weather buddies crammed
into a tiny dorm room that's filled to the rafters
with balled-up tissues, crinkled zinc lozenge
wrappers, and mugs with dried-out tea bags stuck
to the bottoms. And yes, I'm among the sick.
It had been two hours since my last dose of aspirin,
cough syrup, and decongestant, and as the most
medicated member of the bunch, it was my turn
to play Mom. I trudged to the bathroom to refill
my friends' water bottles, which I gave them with
a handful of pills. I heated up some soup and
went looking for video tapes to borrow. Afterward,
we settled back to the glow of the TV and tried
to forget how much we wanted our mommies.
By the time we kicked the flu, we'd seen every
movie available on the dorm floor, as well as
perfected a rotating medication cycle. Not to
mention having read countless cheesy magazines.
We used up three boxes of tissues laughing, crying,
and blowing our noses. We were ultimately miserable,
but our collective misery bonded us. Being sick
had never been so much fun.
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