How do you recover?

Recover from illness?  From stress?  From general slumps?

Apparently, I sleep.

Two weeks ago, I got sick.  It started with a cough...that turned into a fever...that turned into me dumping half my brains into three boxes of kleenex and hacking up what I can only assume were chunks of my lungs.

During that time, I've slept more than I've probably slept in a month.  I was useless.  I couldn't work, I couldn't clean (not that I'd want to clean, anyway)...I couldn't even make my own soup, for crying out loud!  But rest is what I needed, because I feel much better now.

Of course now that I'm feeling better, I've another problem...not knowing where to begin to start catching up.  I have a lot of catching up to do, and I don't know where to plant my feet to get started.  And because of that, all I want to do now is go back to sleep.

But I know I can't.

So what do you do?  How do you recover from your slumps?