Being Sick? Easy Does It!
Mr. Influenza
Last Sunday I noticed my energy levels were declining and my breathing was going a little bit more difficult than normal. For me the first signs that something was not in order under the hood. My daughter was also getting sick, so I probably had catched the famous influenza virus. So how would this conflict with my daily work and sleep schedule?
There is one simple rule when you’re sick; you need to rest and give your body time to recover. So with that in mind I decided to take it easy for the week, or as long as I felt that I wasn’t 100%.
Instead of taking 3 hour core sleep, I added a 1,5 rem sleep to it, bringing it up to 4,5 hours and even that I didn’t feel really the need to take my 3 naps, I still took them anyway.
Sometimes I woke up after 1,5 hour of coresleep in the night. But forced myself to stay down until the 4,5 hours were over. This way I noticed that my body was really rested in the morning. I even managed to do my sport schedule, altough on a little less intense level then normally is the case.
Worst day was Friday. In the morning my head was about to explode. Again decided to stay down in bed and do some reading and sleeping. And it helped. So it’s Saturday now, the worst part is over and I’m ready to go back into full action again.
Lessons learned while being sick:
- Take it easy
- Don’t feel guilty that you can’t finish everything
- Focus on the primary goals only
- Sleep, Sleep, Sleep
- Read, Read, Read
- Eat well
- Don’t feel sorry for yourself
- Be positive
