Literally down (with flu)

Have you ever been sick? When your head hurts and you feel cold and can't eat and all you want is that someone would stroke your head and tell you nice stuff and take care of everything you want. You feel so helpless for wanting things which you can't get on your own, and when someone at that time does everything you want at your bidding, you feel so grateful... The love you feel for that person at that moment seems to make your chest burst. And when your head clears and you feel slightly better, how you prize the fact that you can actually talk and walk around and feel generally "normal" ?? And how that feeling subsides as soon as a day passes, and you're back to taking your health for granted.