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[unicornduke]

 I'm desperately hoping Jade hasn't infected me with her sinus cold thingy that she's currently sick with. I have the slightest pressure in one ear, my face feels a little tight and I was sneezing a little bit this afternoon. Today is Thursday. Saturday I'm supposed to drive down to the whale game. Tuesday and wednesday, work is running a whole fucking conference and I have to be there. 

Bad timing. Worst timing. If I get sick tomorrow, I have to spend the weekend resting up for the conference, no game for me. It's the last whale game of the season near me. 

It seems like a two or three day thing since she's most of the way recovered but ugh. Horrible timing. I just want to do fun things before the gross things like the conference. 

Comments

[graydon]

Extra zinc, vitamin C, etc.?

Possibly even the dread Chinese grandma (North American edition) cure-all elixir? (Grate a pound of ginger into a couple litres of coke. Boil. Drink.)

I do hope your immune system gets the best of it, and promptly.

[unicornduke]

I think I was just being anxious and paranoid, which is actually a pre-period symptom. So, you know. bodies are fucked up.

I'm much less susceptible to sinus things than Jade is, so I suspect I'll be just fine.

I have been eating a lot of citrus lately so that should count too right?

[graydon]

There's a line somewhere in SF author Joe Haldeman's stuff to the effect that "many doctors fail to understand that most people are uncomfortable thinking of themselves as skin bags full of obscene glop". I thought it got points for succinctness.

Yay! fewer symptoms.

Citrus totally counts for the vitamin C; some extra zinc generally helps with avoiding getting a cold, though not always with getting rid of a cold. (Wee-small me thought this meant I could lick galvanized nails. This was not correct.)

[unicornduke]

I mean, we are gross glop as unfortunate a situation as that may be. I was not sick at all, had another moment of paranoia caused by the apartment induced post nasal drip that I have been cursed with where I was concerned I had pneumonia because a coworker had that. Fuck periods, they are the worst. Next time I see my doctor I'm going to see if I can go on something where I don't get them because it sucks.

[graydon]

Good luck!

Hopefully they're the helpful useful sort of doctor.