So, when studying abroad, homesickness is an unavoidable, inevitable feeling. If you're overseas, you expect to miss your home and you assess how to get over that. Luckily, my homesickness has gotten MUCH better- I only got homesick once last week and it lasted about 15 minutes. However, something that I did not anticipate while being abroad is getting physically sick.
Getting some sort of cold or flu is also inevitable, but it wasn't something I thought about prior. Now, three days into my cold, I am learning what it's like to take care of myself and it's very different. Here are a few sick-girl struggles I've experienced.
1) Food - When I'm sick I want chicken noodle soup, hot tea, popsicles...food that isn't real food. I can't have popsicles because I don't have a freezer, so soup sounds easy right? Nope. I went to Monoprix to find something similar to Campbell's soup in a can and literally, soup comes in boxes. Boxes that need to be opened with scissors (which I don't have) so earlier today I found myself sawing open a box of chicken noodle soup with a butter knife while it splashed all over my desk...The struggle.
2) Meds - Okay, I brought what I thought was an entire pharmacy over from the states but apparently I did not think to pack any cold medicine. I tried to get some from the pharmacy today but when I was in town it was lunch hour so it was closed. Then I realized that even if I went in there and tried to find something, I'd have no idea what I was doing. My french vocab does not currently reach the over-the-counter meds category so I'd probably end up buying something totally wrong...
3) My "solutions" - Since I'm lacking medicines and proper sick-girl foods, I've been going vitamin crazy to try to fix myself. Like, a vitamin C tablet everyday and 2 gummy vitamins, fruits of every sort that I can get my hands on, "detox" teas, OH and I've drank an entire liter of orange juice TODAY. If I'm not better by tomorrow, it's apparent that I'm not lacking vitamins, so I must be dying.
I guess I have ebola. Goodbye cruel world.
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