I appear to be sick again, which is rather ridiculous. I never get sick! but over the last six months or so I seem to be coming down with some mild and irritating malady on average of once a month. I don't know -- is my depression affecting my immune system? That seems weird, but all of this is weird. It's never anything major, mostly just a few ( Read more... )

Being ill is really damn demoralising, you guys.

I actually do not know how sick I was yesterday, because from the moment I woke up -- late, with ten minutes before church -- my head was pounding rather as though dwarves were tunnelling through my cranium ( @erinbowbooks: " I'm glad the tunnelling stopped before the dwarfs hit Balrogs." --me too; I  ( Read more... )

Dear me, it seems that I forgot to let you lot know that I wasn't sick anymore. My apologies. I woke Saturday morning with no sign I had ever been sick, except for the massive ugly bruise on my thigh from the mysterious swooning spell, and five hours of pay I won't be seeing in my next paycheck. Sigh. And of course my body hasn't seen fit to warn ( Read more... )

I find that I am rather enjoying the mentally energised feeling that comes with one's fever breaking; although I am not entirely certain that it makes up for being in bed all day and missing five good hours of work, much less the first vomiting I have done in three years. And it was a Friday afternoon shift, too! Very busy! I love being busy with ( Read more... )

I've been having a terrifically odd day.

Most of the morning and early afternoon was spent being very, very cross and sick and blowing my nose every ten minutes or less -- fortunately we have very soft Kleenex so my nose is, for once, not red and raw -- and eating toast for my very sore throat and stalking up and down the stairs and drinking a lot ( Read more... )

Item I: lady_moriel linked me to this, and it is Awesome. Seriously ( Read more... )