Bad news on the doorstep, indeed.
But, since this is mini-rants and the rest of the forum is full of major rants, here’s mine:
I am so incredibly tired of coughing. I’m tired of people looking at me like I’m Typhoid Mary, and I’m tired of not being able to speak 3 sentences in a row without hacking up a lung.
Hrmph.
Is it a cold? When I had a chronic cough it turned out I had asthma.
Speaking of which, what kind of ailment makes a person hork up a lung every 3 minutes, 8 hours a day (at least), every single weekday for 2.5 years?
I am not looking for medical advice, I have a colleague that does this, and after 2.5 years I am looking to refresh my sympathy, which has eroded considerably…
Everybody do me a favor and quit calling me “boss” if I am not your boss. Do I call you Chief? Or Hoss? No, I do not. Please don’t call me “boss.”
Dog leaning up against me, chewing on a stinky marrow bone.
Looks up, looks at its butt, licks butt slurpily a couple of times.
Looks up, looks at me, burps in my face.
Thanks for sharing, dog.
Nothing trivial, I hope.
We had a temp who cleared her throat. Loudly. Constantly. Everyone in the department suddenly discovered their iPods.
There’s a Baptist church up the road from my house that has one of those obnoxious electronic signs in front. It irritates me on a good day because it’s bright enough to see from space and almost blinds me when I’m going to work in the dark at 6:25 a.m., but today I wanted to put a rock through it. Why? The newest inspirational message is “If you’re BLESSED you’re not DEPRESSED!”
:mad:
Fuck you, sign. Or, in the southern parlance, bless your heart.
I had a problem with constant throat clearing and a constant cough- turned out I had a hiatal hernia and constant acid reflux, which was constantly damaging my esophagus and triggering the cough and a protective mucus buildup. Now I am on Prilosec for life, and doing much better.
I just feel like saying fuck Cuisinart. A few years back, I bought their rice cooker and had problems with it from day one. The graduations in the pot do not correlate with the measuring cup, which means, if you follow their directions, you put in too much water, which then boils over. Today I made some proper rice, using the right amount of water, and when I went to check it, the knob came right off the lid, which now no longer fits the pot snugly. Overall, it has been an eighty dollar piece of crap. Well, except for the steamer, which works well on top of a regular sauce pan. If you are looking to buy a thing and one of the options is a Cuisinart, buy one of the other options.
Fucking Trump and his dumbass primetime Supreme Court nominee announcement not only screwed up my Tuesday night TV viewing schedule but also everything the DVR recorded. Asshole.
How the hell can my body produce this much snot? I dragged my miserable butt into work for the first time since last Friday, and my trash can was about one-third full of kleenex when I left. Sinus pressure is making my head ache, my face ache, my jaw ache, even my eyes are achy.
And now I need to sneeze, again.
I have a co-worker whose cube is under one of the air vents…sometimes, the combination of dust from the filthy ducts and fumes from the shop causes her to have violent coughing fits. They’re clearly more of the “irritated throat” than “lung horking” variety though.
I sympathize. I don’t have the sinus pressure, but I have a cough and like you, endless snot. Feel like shit. This has been going on for almost two weeks, and the whole family is in various stages of it. The place looks like a frat house minus the beer bottles. No one has any energy to do anything. I dragged myself to class last night and about passed out on the stairs because it turns out I have no lung capacity.
I’m so sick of this. We all had flu shots, too. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been so sick for so long.
The body is amazing at producing goop against the odds - after doing a bowel prep and not having anything other than plain water for the previous 8 hours I managed to fill 7 emesis basins - I swear, I was horking my toenails and brains up. I rate that as the worst migraine of my life, about 35 years of experience at that time.
Hot flashes.
I was always nice and sympathetic to women who complained about them, but inside, I was thinking “it can’t be that bad, can it?”.
Yes, it can be that bad as I have started learning.
I am so not ready for this. 
Aaaaah! better not take bloody weeks to get over this crud
What the hell is it with pizza places thinking that thin crust pizza needs to be cut in squares? I want pizza slices dammit. Not pepperoni and cheese on crackers.
For better or for worse, I used to get a lot of my news from the Huffington Post. I can’t go there now because every article about trump has to include a big picture of the fucker. Everybody knows what he looks like. The pictures are unnecessary, and that cat picture thing doesn’t work for me there
A chronic sinus condition can do this. Post-nasal drip occurs and the goop ends up in the throat. A number of different things, including allergies, can cause the sinus condition.