(@asknaturalcure) Autumn: What's being "sick"? I've never heard of that before. Is it like when you eat a bad berry?
Nick couldn’t help but giggle a bit, but that kinda hurt his throat, so he took a cup of honey lemon a Mimikyu gave him earlier and took a sip out of it.
“That’s one means to get sick. Another way, well...ah...ahhh...”
Nick suddenly held a tissue up in front of his nose and mouth. He would also do this for any further coughs.
“AHH-CHOOO!! Ahh,,,ah-ACHOO!! Aaaaa-CHOOO!!! ugh,,,”
Nick blew his nose into the tissue that was in front of his mouth, and then balled it up, threw it on the floor and grabbed another tissue for his paw.
“Well, have you ever been in a really dusty space, or (cough!) outside as all the flowers are releasing excess pollen? You get all sneezy, right? Your nose starts getting all runny? (sniffle)”
“Well, imagine that, but like, there is no dust or pollen in sight, or you are simply not (sniffle) allergic to anything, and on top of sneezing and having a runny nose, that most of the time you can’t blow properly, you’re also--(cough! cough wheeze!) coughing, like so, your throat hurts, you have a headache, your forehead feels warmer than usual, and this lasts for a few days. Oh yeah, and you also feel shivery and have less energy than normal. This is called the common cold, and it is how I feel right now. Admittedly though I felt a lot worse a couple of days ago.”
Nick wiped his nose with a tissue, and suddenly sneezed once more.
“ACHOO!! ugh, excuse me. When you’re sick like I am, *sniffle* you can easily spread germs by sneezing or coughing and *cough!* not properly covering your nose. And even so, if you were to *snif snifff* sneeze, even into a tissue, and then grab something like *sniffle* someone’s paw, or a doorknob, which someone then were to touch, and then *sniffle* like, touch their own face without washing their paws first, then in a few days, they’d be sick too.”
“So when you get sick like this, *sniffle* you need to stay home, rest in bed for a few days, drink plenty of liquids, and avoid getting anyone else sick. And if you can, take medicine to *cough cough sniffle* help get better faster.”
Nick sat down in his sleeping bag and got all huddled into his blanket.
“Now, being sick is *sniffle* NOT a thing I will recommend, but far be it from me if you want to experiment and try the worse things in life. *hacking cough* If you CAN even, that is. All these balled up papers on the ground *snort* all have my germs on them. I’ll trust you to avoid them.”
(internal monologue: “but if you wanted to harvest my germs and wait a few days, for the love of Arceus, stop wanting to do that! i wouldnt wish a cold like this on my worst enemy! And don’t take any candy either, i sneezed all over it.”)
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