Unfortunately you can not chose…
So, I am now on the sofa, covered a lot (a flu, I even have no voice anymore; before I left work a female coworker told that her husband would probably be happy if this would happen to her… 
) and medication and water are not far away on the table.
The good thing with the current technology is, that you can still be a little bit productive (depending on the illness).
As you can read this, it means I have my netbook with me, so that I can take care about some simple things.