I was kinda forbiddent o take a sick day unless I was dying though.
I'm proctoring a test and SHOULD be working on spreadsheets while I do it.
Instead, I just made all of my cough-drop wrappers into wee origami hats for my fingers.
This is not me, but I just googled 'origami hat cough drop' and this IS indeedy rather what my thumb loks like right now (except I stuck smiley-face-stickers on for faces):
(FWIW, my hats are better and are a better style :-)