Five Ways To Cope With Sick Days
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Rehana Munir
Five Ways To Cope With Sick Days

I’m not proud of it – okay, I’m just a little bit proud – of owning a pretty enviable sickbed game. What’s a sickbed game, the paragons of health among you might ask. It means the inner resources you fall back on when you’re under the weather, as one commonly is during this season. I’m not, of course, speaking about the grievous afflictions that leave us quite shattered. But there are plenty of illnesses, from headaches and the flu to foot injuries and stomach woes that leave us brooding in bed every now and then. I’m here to share the successful strategies for those sneezy, mopey, don’t-I-lookdopey times.

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