Sickness: Mono

Being on campus, we're all currently aware of the fact that swine flu, H1N1, has been terrorizing through the dorms and such. Living in the apartments, you think you'd be safe, from the swine flu or even just the common cold thats been floating around. Oh, you thought wrong. My current roommate has managed to stay sick the entire time she has been here, all four and a half weeks. It seems like Mucinex, Dysum, Nyquil, Advil & Tylenol, Suddafed and whatever else she has got in her basket of goodies, just doesn't want to work. So, as an innocent bystander to the war on her immune system, it seems like I get stuck with mono; which she has already had and is now stuck with for the rest of her life. What is it with mono anyway? Dictionary.com kindly references it as a "kissing disease". Who in their right mind would name a disease/infection a kissing one. So alas, the fever, general exhaustion and failure to breathe correctly have set in and here I lay, in bed, a couple feet off the ground, with the biggest thirst and no water nearby. My bed is my desert and the kitchen is the oasis; so far away, so unattainable in my current state. How am I ever gonna make it to the bathroom.....damn flu season. I hate you.