I"ve come down with bronchitis, last night I couldn’t get to sleep until 5am because I was so sick (I woke up at 7am). I’ve had cold sweats even though my body temp is down to 97, vomiting, coughing up phlegm and numerous other shitty symptoms. Today I had a really shitty day at school (a day that was 10 hours long mind you, from 8am-620pm, the longest day of the week) to top it all off. So when I got home my roommate offered to ride his bike to Kroger to buy me some chicken soup. How nice, this almost makes today worth it.
Awesome roommate!
My senior year, I had the flu…twice…followed by pneumonia, and my roommate was also awesome. I went to most of my classes, but for those I couldn’t, he actually eith went to the prof to get the assignment, or found someone I or him knew in the class to get it. I could have easily emailed someone, but he tracked them down himself.
Yay for roommates that rock! Tell your roommate he gets an A+!
Roommates that take care of you when you are sick are indeed the best. When I was living with laurelann, I got what we called the plague. She made cream of rice when I was too sick to go to the caf, took my temperature, made me sleep, made me drink my weight in water out of fear of dehydration and generally mothered me, even though she was sick, too.
Roommates can, indeed, rock. Last spring, I managed to get The Stomach Bug from Hell, and for the sake of decency, I’ll sum it up as “high fever, chills, and the complete inability to keep anything, even water, in my body.” I was fine on Friday, then woke up at about 3 AM, feeling like the “I want to die!” fairy had crashed directly onto my bed. It was not only the day of a belt testing in karate, but also my roommates birthday.
I managed to stay upright long enough to go down and watch part of the karate promotion. When I got back, my roommate (on her birthday, mind you) had commandeered a friend’s car to go out to the store on my behalf. She brought me a “bag of goodies” - Immodium, Pepto-Bismol, some Gatorade, and vegetable broth with rice (the vegetarian’s chicken soup). She refused to even let me repay her.
For that alone, I decided that not only do I owe her a proper birthday party this year, but it is my job to inform the curious that she is simply The Best Person Ever.