Sniffles...coughs...germs. The past few weeks many students have presented with symptoms of colds, flu, and even the dreaded mono. Thankfully I have yet to become a victim of these nasty bugs, but plenty of my friends have not been so lucky. Attendance in classes has been spotty and those sick students who do come to class spend a good deal of time coughing, distracting the prof and the rest of the students. No good.
Just this past weekend we've had some pretty scary incidents due to illness:
Saturday morning we had track practice at 10 AM. So we met and then headed out in packs for our run. When I returned to the lockerroom about an hour later, I saw some juniors hustling to get their clothes on and head off to the parking lot. After some quick questioning I found out that one of the freshman runners who had been sick for the past week had passed out on the sidewalk 10 minutes into the run! Thankfully the other teammates in that group were able to borrow a cell phone and call an ambulance. Everything turned out just fine, but that was really scary! I'm not sure how I would've reacted if I had been with that group and it happened. It just goes to show that sick bodies need time to recover before they can handle more stress.
Then today I found out that a student I know who has already been diagnosed with mono had to go to the hospital yesterday because her glands were so swollen that she couldn't talk. I had been hearing from friends that she was really not feeling well earlier in the week due to the mono, but apparently it got even worse. Not good at all.
So I'm doing my best to wash my hands regularly, get enough sleep, and stay away from sick people - hard to do when my roommate has the sniffles, but I'm determined not to catch the bug.
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