Remaining Sane During Bed Rest

Haven’t you ever felt restless when you are down with some sickness and admitted to a hospital? Or felt impatient when recuperating from a bad fever and your doctor has advised complete bed rest? We all have experienced this phase. It feels extremely claustrophobic and boring spending weeks in a six by four bed. So, here we will discuss the ways to use this time productively and remain sane while recovering.

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You can do various things during this phase before you can get back on your feet.

There are various online learning sites like Coursera. You can do a Google search of it and enrol for some free courses there. That will help you learn something, as well as get certified. If you are a manager, you can get hold of management courses. If you have a technical bent of mind, you can go for technical courses or even get lessons on spirituality and self improvement if you have such an inclination.

If you possess a smart phone, then you can install an App called Oyster. This App is free for one week and will allow you to read as many books as you can during this time period. Once that time is over, you can either purchase it or create another free account in the name of your family members and continue enjoying the free books. They have a great collection of books and I bet you won’t be disappointed if you are a book worm.

You can browse the web for legal movie streaming sites if you are a cine freak. Here you can watch movies which you have always wanted to and you will be amazed at the speed time flies by!

If you are a social person and like to hang out with your friends, then you can organize a kitty party in your room and invite your friends over. While you sit up in your bed, you can play light music while playing card games, or scrabble, ludo or even chess if you feel like it. This can be even be made for interesting by ordering pizza over phone and chilling out! provided your doctor does not have a problem with that.

Girls who like fashion and make up tips can watch youtube channels with these tutorials while boys who are sports buffs can catch up great recoded matches. There are even cooking channels on youtube for you to learn recipes if that interest you.

If you like learning languages, you can install an App called Duolingo in your smart phone and learn languages like French, Spanish, Italian or Chinese and pick up a few words and phrases pretty quickly! This will also come handy later on if you are on a trip abroad once you are back in good health.

It is really frustrating being on bed rest if you are an otherwise active person. However, if you find ways to entertain yourself by trying out the things above, and enjoy the get well soon hampers in UK, your dear ones send you, then time would fly by pretty quickly!