It's kind of odd being back. Really nice, as I was missing home like hell on Saturday, but odd. I'm mentally buoyed up and excited as hell about being back at work, which I'd *really* missed, but worried that I'll suddenly get ill again. I've still got the sore throat, and A. is really unwell today and has been off work. I'm just scared of getting ( Read more... )

My resolve to keep to my early German hours has inevitably been wavering. In my defence, I have to point out that the weather in Cologne was ~miserable~ and the hotel bed was warm, comfortable and king-sized, even if it did have that odd arrangement with duvets. What's that about, eh? Talk about discouraging intimacy. The hotel was very keen to ( Read more... )

We are on a Thalys train approaching Aachen/Aix-La-Chappelle! There's free wi-fi ( Read more... )

Why am I still unwell? No, really, I'm confused. It's been THREE WEEKS and I'm still stuck in bed having sneezing fits. I even woke up in the middle of the night (despite taking Zombie-Clone) so I could sneeze a lot. It's like some sort of very bad hay fever, but since I also take antihistamines every day, that seems unlikely. 2 weeks on ( Read more... )

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A week and a half of pretty solid unwellness. I'm not dying or anything, but the sneezing, coughing, running nose, itchy throat & inner ears, headaches and absolute feeling of exhaustion is almost constant. I really don't know what the hell's up with this, and why it won't go away. Have I caught another virus straight away? I'm on Amoxicillin in ( Read more... )