Take their temperature- Not that you know what's high, low or normal, but you've seen people do it on Grey's Anatomy so it makes you look like you know your stuff.
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Make them soup- Everyone has soup when they're sick right? It's a given.
Contact them at work- If they're ill but insist on going into the office- you text and email them at regular intervals to make sure they're still alive.
Feel their forehead- And bring them a wet cloth for it- you don't know if it'll do any good- but it looks funny!
Buy tissues- Enough for a giant to blow his nose on if you stitched them altogether.
Give them orange juice- It's all about the Vitamin C overload when someone's sick- that WILL make them well again- but their teeth don't thank you for it.
Give them pills- They are too delicate to open up a packet of anti-cold meds themselves so you do it for them and hand them over with a glass of water. You become a walking pharmacist, clock watch for the when the next dose is due and get nervous when your stocks run low.
Sleep in another room- You love them dearly and sympathise that they're ill but there's no way you can sleep with the racket from their nasal passages as they try and push out all the mucus.
Stay quiet- If they're in bed resting or taking a nap, you tiptoe around the house so you don't wake them- they need all the horizontal action they can get to shift this thing.
Give them plenty of fluids- You must flush out the bugs with lots of water. They struggle to rest when they have to get up to pee every hour but alas it's an inconvenience one must face.
Do everything for them- Ordinarily if you were left to tidy up, do the washing, cook tea and drive everywhere you would feel short changed, but you don't mind it so much when they're sick because one day you hope they'll do the same for you.
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