Toby ([info]wintrmute) wrote,
@ 2009-06-22 23:58:00
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Entry tags:flu, ill

Contagious?
Ow.
Ow ow ow.
I woke up feeling fine this morning, and rode the motorbike to work in the bright sun, feeling optimistic about the week.
By lunchtime I felt like I'd been run over by a train a few times and then tossed into a freezing river. I don't know if I've caught "that" flu, but whatever it is, it came on extremely rapidly and now I feel like death warmed up.

On the other hand, it has provided me with an excuse to rug up as for a polar expedition, then curl up in a blanket on the couch as well with the central heating on full, and start watching serial experiments lain episodes back-to-back, possibly napping slightly here and then, which worked reasonably well with the surreal nature of the anime.

Have woken self up again now, and got back into bed after pre-calling in sick to work.

I hope this stupid illness disappears as quickly as it came on! I have stuff to do later this week!
I'm disappointed in my immune system.. it was generally really good since mid 2007, but lately I've come down with cold, headache, and now this! Hmph :/




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[info]feanelwa
2009-06-22 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Oh dear! *soup*

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[info]welikegoats
2009-06-23 08:15 am UTC (link)
To be fair, if you can blog about it, it's probably not 'flu.

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[info]wintrmute
2009-06-23 03:10 pm UTC (link)
There was quite a while where I was completely incapable of moving off that couch, but after a day of feeling completely wasted, I seemed more lucid briefly that evening when I posted it. Mostly I just didn't know what was going on.
Today i seem significantly more lucid, although I'm also confused that my temperature (now that I have a thermometer) seems to have been stable at 36.9 degrees, which I'm sure isn't quite right!

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[info]wintrmute
2009-06-23 03:12 pm UTC (link)
ah! Wikipedia says that oral temperatures are normally approx 36.8 degrees, so actually that seems about right.

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[info]phroggiepuddles
2009-06-23 08:48 am UTC (link)
Go the vitamin overdose... I find as soon as you start getting flu or cold symptoms, tripling the recommended vitamin intake (especially of the garlic/horseradish/c and zinc is also great for the immune system). If the doctor gives you anti-biotics yakult and yoghurt is the best thing to replace all the stuff the ant-biotics kill.

Then go nuts on chili, garlic & ginger soups.

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[info]miss_amethyst
2009-06-23 08:45 pm UTC (link)
Aw noooo! Hope you feel better and back to yourself again soon!! *big virtual hug* x

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