Eight newly discovered facts about being sick when you live alone:

• Your parents will, endearingly, assume you are dying.
• If you don’t wash your hair for four days, no one will care that you look like a demon. This is equal parts liberating and depressing.
• You will be torn between wanting company and not wanting to have exhausting in-person conversations.
• Perhaps more importantly, you will also be torn between needing to go to the shop for more tissues / soup and feeling physically unable to move from the couch.
• It’s time to worry when you find yourself watching back-to-back episodes of Bonanza just because it’s on and you can’t find the remote (Channel 44, if you were wondering).
• Napping is the pastime of the Gods.
• The fear of choking to death on phlegm and not being found for a while becomes a genuine concern.
• There is a limit to the number of episodes of 30 Rock you can watch in a day. That number is high, but it’s there.

Look after your health, people. Being sick is the worst.

‘Til next time,