Every couple of years I might get something that resembles a sort of flu.  With aches and exhaustion.  Every once in a long while I get some sort of stomach thing (the most spectacular of which was at least seven years ago, and found me ejecting simultaneously from both ends of the alimentary canal).  Sometimes I feel kinda run down, or I have ( Read more... )

I won't got so far as the say I'm miserable today, but I'm not feeling good.  Last  night heralded an onset of the sore throat/ear issue, this time on my right side.  Wasting no time, I started bolting down my store of Cephalexin.

Today I'm not hurting so much, but I feel dragged out.  I do not think this is from the gym, although I am not ( Read more... )

Now that I'm all Old 'n' Shit™, I find I like Boxing Day even better than Christmas.  It's the day to relax, to assess (ungrudgingly and without blame), the day to perhaps engage in a little desultory clean-up, the day to nibble on those anchovy-stuffed olives from my stocking (and yes, I do like them; any other questions?), the day to slough ( Read more... )

I hate being sick.  I am rarely actually sick.  I can be under the weather, but really really sick?  Not so much.  The left side of my throat is sore, my left ear is sore, I'm have been running an intermittent fever with intermittent aches and pains, and my stomach all day has been doing its best impression of a spinning low pressure system over ( Read more... )

I believe I caught a diarrhea bug from Twinkie.  Damn it, just when I was going to try and get some things done, too.

Mum is very sick with a severe viral infection, which sounds like a worse version of what I had earlier.  Elevated heart rate, elevated BP, swollen and inflamed throat, popping ears, copious flow and accumulation of clear mucus.

So I finally fingured out why I'm so miserable--I have a cold! I know that makes me sound like a knucklehead, but while I have allergy attacks as easy as kiss your hand, colds are not something I have a great deal of experience with. I have dipped into my penicillin supply, am megadosing with Vitamin C (again), investigating decongestants, and ( Read more... )

I really hope I feel better tomorrow.

Last night we were watching the wonderful & adorable Julie & Julia (intrepida, go out now and rent this movie! I thought of you so much!) when I started shaking violently. Of course Spouseman rolled his eyes--he always does that when he thinks I'm being overdramatic. The shaking would calm down when I got distracted ( Read more... )

So after days in pain, my parents paid for me to go to the dentist--he was lovely, he got me right in--and after much hemming and poring over 3 x-rays, he pronounced I needed a root canal.

Well, lovely. This will make 5? 6? I've lost track, since my first horrifying experience at 19. I had a broken molar and the pain got to the level that I ( Read more... )

I have to remember I'm picking a friend up tomorrow morning at 10:30 and taking him to work.

I have been in bed asleep for pretty much all of the day.  ( Nattering beneath cut. )