Being sick, the smart way.

It happens and it sucks.
There's two ways a fighter can deal with being sick. There's the dumb way and there's the smart way!

The dumb way: Act like you're fine. Try to fight like nothing is wrong.
Pros: You get to fight.
Cons: You don't get better at anything because you're too sick to register. You can aggravate your sickness. Depending on what you have, you can share and that sucks. You don't fight at your best. You have a greater possibility of being a danger to yourself and others.

The smart way: Take care of yourself and refrain from fighting. Do light pell work if you can. Work on your kit.
Pros: You get to learn by watching others fight. You will heal faster. You get to marshal.You are not in more pain then you need to be.
Cons: You don't get to fight.

I chose the dumb way a few times, when I'm not contagious. It was... well.... dumb.
I'm sick right now. Nothing extreme, just a severe infection of the external acoustic meatus, I'm not contagious unless I share earphones or something. We have a practice tomorrow. If I feel exactly like I do now, I won't put my armour on and I'll do some pell work, rapier drills and shoot a couple of arrows. I'm dizzy and I feel like Cthulhu laid an egg in my head. The end of the months is gonna be fairly busy and I want to be in top shape.

It's easy being dumb, but I think that I'll try being smart this time and see how it goes.

Thanks to my brothers-in-arms to push me and encourage me to take better care of myself.


*** Yes... part of the reason I write this is to convince myself to be smart.