Only The Best Whump/Sickfic Tropes

First, I had a bad stress fracture in my foot that has gone untreated for months while I stubbornly finished my last year of gymnastics. It was now in a boot.

Then my family and I went on a two week long camping trip from California to South Dakota, in the summer, tent camping only, 9 people and all our supplies stuffed into a 9 seater suburban.

It was fine, at first. My foot has been in the boot for a few weeks and was feeling good enough to go on the hikes.

Then I got bronchitis with a really bad fever. I could feel the mucus and such crackling in me every time I breathed. I decided that it would be less bad if I put less liquid in me. It was also over 100f in the badlands of South Dakota. Guess who got very dehydrated? Guess what made everything so much worse?

Also having bronchitis made me get out of breath very easily. Paired with my broken foot, I spent a lot of time that trip napping in the car with the windows rolled down while the rest of my family hiked.

Anyway in spite of all that, I had a ton of fun on what was my last camping trip with my family before I got a job and started college and later moved halfway across the country from them.

But yeah, stress fracture plus bronchitis plus dehydration is not a fun combo. Also my dad offered to take me to the hospital when we were near one but I was feeling ok enough by then that I just waited to go to the doctor after we got home.

i used to write for detroit become human so consider:

overheating because of blocked vent fans (asthma analogous)

malware causing certain systems to malfunction or overheat

shivering because a virus is tricking their system into thinking conditions are freezing, thus necessitating the need to agitate artificial blood to avoid coagulation

gyroscopic malfunction akin to dizziness/vertigo

sensory input issues causing double vision, hallucinations, etc

robot companion cranking their systems up in a cold environment to cause intentional overheating/heat output to keep their human companion warm

damage to components that cause short-term memory storage to malfunction or long-term memory deletion

involuntary shutdown to prevent overheating from either hot environment or overheating internally from malware/broken parts (akin to fainting)

warning messages overwhelming the robot's visual field right before they go into a forced shutdown, difficulty focusing and communicating because of the distraction

"blood" working kind of like a spider in that pressure is needed to maintain limb rigidity and function, so when too much "blood" loss occurs, they get weak or can't move

okay i LOVE this!!

HARD AGREE!!!!!

time-sensitive experiments that cannot be paused or stopped to work around scientist's fever

shaky hands trying to use pipettes or scalpels

dropping beakers, shattered glass, caustic chemicals

fuzzy vision while looking through a microscope

Bonus points if whumpee brushes it off because they didn't actually faint, so all they have to do is be careful.

Bonus bonus points if caretaker saw this, questioned whumpee, and asked if they're okay, so now whumpee has to find a way to reassure caretaker