The Bright Side Of Sick

Aside from the whole living-with-anxiety deal I have going on, I’m more of an optimist than a pessimist.

That’s why I look at all the positives that come with the big fat negative of being sick with a sinus infection.

• Keeping up on the latest innovations in tissues.
• Getting to take naps without feeling guilty.
• “Get well” notes from Claire.
• Staying sexy while sleeping with tissues stuffed up my nostrils.
• The children will let you take embarrassing pictures of them because you sound meaner with your sexy sick voice.
• Eating McDonald’s cheeseburgers because they’re a natural cure for sickness.
• Using the sickness as an excuse to explain why your sister ran a 1/2 marathon and you didn’t.
• Friends will take the kids for the afternoon after school.
• Getting to see what the insides of your lungs looks like when your cough them up.
• No one complains when laundry doesn’t get done (except it will all be waiting for you for when you’re feeling better).
• Pharmacists will take one look at you when you drop off your antibiotics prescription and say they’re putting a rush on your script.
• When you eat an entire strawberry & cheese danish cake by yourself over the course of your 4-day sickness, at least you’re eating, amirite?

I’m 90% better now, but I still have to take the may-give-me-a-yeast-infection antibiotics for the next 7 days.

Bright side? Eating yogurt every day for a solid 2 weeks!