No, it's not man-flu, actually

It amazes me that I do still have to clarify that, even though it's fairly obvious that I'm a girl and am therefore logically immune to Man-Flu.
Also, I'm not a pansy.
(..Just sayin')

Now, I'm never one to dramatise a situation, but when I woke up this morning, I was fairly sure that I would later in the day recreate a fairly famous scene from a 1979 sci-fi film...


If we're honest, I shouldn't watch any kind of media when I have a fever. It's just not clever.
But I really was very ill. My tummy was really rumbly and painful so moving was a challenge... Unless I was doubled up in a sneaky, spy way, but in reality, I couldn't have crept up on anyone because my tummy would have alerted my prey to my prescence (worst spy ever). I also found that digesting was apparently something I wasn't allowed to get round to doing, and nothing I could think of doing was helping to make me feel better.


So instead, I curled up in my bed and cried.
BECAUSE I'M A REAL MAN.

By the way, that anti alien cord is a direct link to the PM's office. It sends out a code red emergency! True story.


Anyway, once my fever came down low enough for me to return to the real world, I remembered that I had been given some kind of super-pill by my lovely friend.


Seriously, it was almost as big as my head.
I took it (somehow), and within half an hour or so, all the sickness had gone away! And I was just starting to feel better when my sister very kindly waltzed into my room (without knocking, by the way) and greeted me with "wow, you look attractive."
Hey, thanks Decaf. That's exactly what I want to hear when I'm busy dying.
I retorted with a very quick, overly defensive remark about how I was poorly and was therefore allowed to look a mess. Which clearly demonstrated to anyone with an interest in Psychology that I was already very aware of how ugly I was and that her remark had been a little too honest for my liking.
Though, irrespective of my sister's kind words, I was feeling much, much better. I even felt well enough to now start complaining to people that I was poorly.
I love medicine.

Honestly, to anyone studying or practicing pharmacology/magic - you guys are cool.