Sleep is so nice...

My roommate has been sick for the past three days.
She has a coughing illness.
I like to call it a death cough.
She typically wakes up in the middle of the night and coughs like she is dying for about an hour.
I cannot sleep while she is cough dying.
So I lie on my back thinking of all the things that I could do to get to sleep.
I could go to the couch in the lobby.
Too much effort.
I could put a pillow over my head.
Too claustrophobic.
I could put my headphones in.
I tried this and it didn't help because I could still hear here.
So yesterday,
after about 15 minutes of her death coughing,
I sat up and sigh-growled really loudly.
It worked.
For about two hours.
Last night,
I decided that the only way for me to get sleep is to take some sleep medicine so I will just pass out.
So I took some NyQuil and some Benedryl.
I didn't have the cup you measure the NyQuil in,
so I guesstimated by just drinking straight out of the bottle.
It worked.
I slept all through the night.
However,
I woke up with a horrendous stomach ache.
I don't really know what happened,
but it went away after about an hour.