The last time I got sick was a couple weeks ago, I had a severe allergic reaction and ended up getting hives. They lasted for about a week, it was all over my body and ended up getting on my face as well. I have gotten hives once before but I really long time ago, I do not really remember for what or how long it lasted. But when I got it this time it was a lot worse than I could remember. I ended up going to the hospital and getting allergy medicine it took a couple days but they ended up going away. After the hives went away I still took the medicine because I was scared that they would come back. I plan on getting allergy tested to figure out what caused them. Both my hands and feet got very swollen so it hurt when I walked, I ended up having to call out for a couple of days from work. But my manager understood because she has also suffered from hives, she said her hives lasted for more than a year. My mom got really scared when the hives were all over my face and when I would show her the ones on my body. She thought I needed to go back to the doctors when she saw how swollen my hands were. Both my feet and hands ended up staying swollen for a couple of days even after all the hives from my body went away. Now everytime I feel an itch somewhere on my body I get scared and think my hives are coming back. 

Sometime around last year my dad started to get allergies. He would cough, sneeze alot and he had a stuffy nose. We thought it would go away with time and he also ended up taking some allergy medicine. He ended up staying sick for a very long time, I could hear him cough throughout the night and he would often feel unwell. My family was all scared that something was really wrong with him but whenever he would go to the doctor’s they would tell him the same thing. That it was just a cold and it would go away with time. It ended up lasting for about six months, I felt bad for him knowing that he still had to work while not feeling his best is never a good thing. I started to worry about him and would think about how he was feeling. Luckily with time the cold ended up going away and he started to feel better. 

Our two situations were the same because we both got sick by allergies, I am sure we both would worry about one another when we got sick. Mine did not last as long as my dad but we both got severely ill, his cough ends up coming and going now. But it never lasts as long as it did before. It’s different for me to be sick then seeing someone I care about being sick, i would rather be sick myself then have someone I care about being sick. I end up worrying a lot more.