Ugh. I'm ill. I can't breathe from my nose, my throat hurts and NOW, I've started to cough! I HATE being sick. I'm sure The Little Man gave it to me. He has been coughing for days now. I guess I should feel blessed that I am not as sick as he has been. He had miserable allergies this year, his eyes were swollen and teary and he couldn't stop rubbing them. He then got strep throat and right as he was finishing his antibiotic, he got this cold... and promptly gave it to me!Why do I hate to be sick so much? Well, first you feel like crap. Second, it ruins your plans. I don't feel up to going out and enjoying the day because I feel run down. I have an agenda, stuff to get done and this cold is getting in my way.
Now yes, I could be very Zen about it, not fight it, scale my massive cleaning/painting back, put it on hold and just be one with my cold...BUT I DON'T WANT TO! The Professor comes home today and I wanted the house to be in better shape by the time he got back. I know he won't care, but I do and this cold is irritating.
The cold also puts my swimming/running on hold. I did three miles in the pool last week. I was shooting for 4 but felt too ill to swim yesterday. I also wanted to try a 5K on Sat. morning but was too tired and out of it.
Ok, ok, I'll stop whining. This too shall pass...right? I'll have to work at battling my ego today, decide whether or not to continue with my rigorous cleaning plans or go to Barnes and Noble, buy a good book, find a comfy spot in my house and read, relax and rejuvenate.
I want to get over this thing ASAP. I was reading an article that said a positive attitude will cure a cold. Ok, I'll try and be happy with my throat feeling like I swallowed sandpaper. I have also tried eating raw garlic in the past and that DID seem to help shorten the cold. When I lived in Mexico, they would have me sip tequila when I was ill. I'm all for that! I do think that the alcohol kills some germs. The Professor says that the Vietnamese say that Pho is good for a cold, especially with the hot sauce. I am willing to try it all...ANYTHING to get rid of it! Any advice on how to quickly get rid of this thing?
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When you find out how to get rid of it let me know. Cause I have it too! I don't want to depress you but I have been sick for a week now. UGH! I did nothing yesterday except sit on my behind, nap and watch TV. I will not let the whole weekend go by without doing anything so I am about to clean this stinking house up no matter how rotten I feel...right after I go buy a Diet Coke...I need caffeine so bad!
Hope your positive attitude conquers this...buy the book and take it easy!
GOOD WHISKEY. Really! Like your cartoon.
In response to your comment at my blog, Jerry's little sister: I taught at a boarding school in Mass. in the mid-90s, Cush!ng Academy, and I took a group of those high school students on a field trip to see the Grateful Dead in October of 94 at Boston Garden and then Jerry died a few months later! 4 kids didn't show up and the trip leader told me I could sell the extra tickets on the street, which I did, for cover price, and I had my free ticket for myself, all the kids were VERY GOOD and the Dead was really a perfect performance band: they just play and they play well and have fun and it isn't overly loud at all.
I know people who swear by hot toddies and some who believe that combining garlic and vitamin C will work. I think you just need to give yourself time to let your body heal. Sleep is very healing. I hope you feel tons better soon.
Steviewren- I hope you get better too. You did the right thing by just laying around all day. I ended up driving kids around all day. I put 150 miles on the car just doing that. UGH. That was not what I wanted to do...and I didn't get the book.
GR - You are right, there is nothing like good whiskey...I went to Choate Rosemary Hall in CT. How odd that we connect on these things. What a great field trip! I would have loved to take a group of students to a Dead concert! AND to be able to see Jerry just before he moved on to the biggest concert in the sky...awesome!
Hilary - I ate a piece of garlic whole today (on an empty stomach) and I thought I was going to vomit! I'll never do that again. Later I went out and bought garlic pills. I think I will do Vitamin C and garlic, hot toddies and lots of tea with honey...with whiskey chasers...gotta cover all my bases. :)
Poor LLL.. I did mean the odorless garlic pills and C. It sounds like you have a GOOD, fortified plan now... see you in a month. ;)
Hope you feel better, please?
Hey, you went to Choate and you're 42? I am also 42, and there was a guy who was kicked out of Choate (for the usual reasons, I am sure) who ended up back in my public school as a senior when I was a junior. I remember his face but not name, he had a lot of fuzzy black hair and he probably was a dr!g dealer, but also a goalie on the hockey team and the son of a dean at Colgate. Well anyway....
GR- I'm 41...close :) Graduated in 1985. Yeah, my junior year there was a big drug bust. One of the swimmers got kicked out for bringing drugs into JFK from Colombia. A bunch of others did as well. If I had a name, I might know who he is. Those were wild days! I still love the East Coast...ate my first bagel there...first saw MTV there...
Hilary - On the garlic pills now, no sore throat today but still not myself. Decided to paint the living room to make myself feel better ;)
If that's what it takes, you can come paint mine and feel superb! ;)
GARLIC! Yes, feel better.
Wow!I don't think I have swam 3 miles in my life. Swimming is the only thing holding me back from a triathlon.
welcome Mark - Swimming is the hardest thing for most people in a triathlon. It is the easiest for me. Then running and then biking, just because I don't know much about competitive biking.
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