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[mao4269]

This week, I learned that:
* If I can tell that I am feverish I should take my temperature sooner rather than later
* Ibuprofen is scarily effective at reducing one's temperature
* Waiting until the day before a problem set is due to start it doesn't work well if you're sick the day before it's due and the day it's due.

Comments

[rowneet]

I"m glad you're feeling better! I had that same problem last year and never even really knew i had a temperature. Thermometers are good things and now I own one of my very own. Good luck with the work!

[badqueermonkey]

gah..fevers suck, especially when you don't have heat in your apartment. Hope you feel better!

[anonymous]

An epistemic point:

You claim:
"Additionally, since taking a single ibuprofen had caused a 6 degree drop"

POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC. Fallacious your reasoning is! Correct you net Yoda will!

But I'm glad you're feeling well :) Next time you are deathly ill you should read some Hume.

[mao4269]

I never asserted that more ibuprofen WOULD cause my temperature to drop to an unhealthfully low level, just that I was afraid of the possibility. More importantly, I didn't want to suppress an immune response without dealing with the infection that it was presumably trying to affect.

But...Who are you?

[mao4269]

Oh, right, and who in the world would read Hume while dealthy ill? Intentionally screwing with one's sense of reality while highly feverish seems like a bad plan. Hume would be almost as bad as watching Yellow Submarine...