stomach "flu"
I was sick again over the past few days, confined to home over the weekend. It was a stomach thing; seems likely it came with me from south America. I found I've gotten a different attitude towards sickness from exposure to a friend who has a lifelong disease with no known cure, only varying effectiveness approaches towards controlling symptoms. Despite this, he does more with his life in between the times he's feeling bad than I do with my relatively healthy one. I like thinking that willpower has more influence on what you get out of life than circumstances. (One of my favorite LJs is a woman who juggles so many simultaneous full-time activities I'd swear it was faked if I didn't know better.) These days, when I'm sick, I look at it like this: this sucks now, but eventually it will be over and forgettable. I just need to sit still for a few days while my body figures it out. And like when I was in school, during that downtime I plan all the more useful things I'd be doing if I were well.