Is it just me, or do viruses seem to target you during the time either very close to or during the holidays? I don’t think I can remember a Christmas when I wasn’t sick. Right now, I’ve got a bad cold. I got maybe a half hour of sleep last night because I felt like I had (and still have) a huge ball of phlegm in my throat that I can’t cough up, no matter how much I try. The fact that I have allergies and athsma means that colds are extra fun for me. I have to thump my chest every few hours to get the phlegm moving so it doesn’t sit and turn into an infection.
So holiday time illnesses can go and get fucked with rusty spears. And while I’m at it, I pit the inconsiderate bowls of ass sweat who are already sick, sneeze all over their hands and then rub their disgusting fucking meat paws all over every doorknob and telephone in sight without washing them first. At least they can carry one of those little bottles of hand sanitizer if they’re a crawling germ factory. I hope they sit on a cactus, and the biggest needle on it goes up their anus and gets lost in there for ever and ever.
I’m sick too. I want my damn money back from the flu shot and all the damn vitamins I’ve been taking for the last three months. They did no good at all, I’m still sitting here about to fall over. Meh.
It isn’t just holidays. It is other big events-like plays and concerts too.
The soprano soloist for this year’s Christmas Cantata at my church never showed on Sunday. She was flat on her back in bed–and so was her husband. The good news is that she’d been getting sick the day before so a substitute singer had had one run through the song in question and could (and did) perform without problems.
Why it happens? I vote one part stress, one part cold weather (when applicable) and at least two parts you notice (or mind) being sick at the holidays or other big occassions more than other times. Especially if “near Christmas” is anytime from Mid-November to January.
I spent Thursday sick (Friday not quite well but better, and Saturday would have been perky but my period hit, so I had cramps instead–not bad ones(well, they were unworthy of horror stories), but it is always extra irritating to be almost well and then feel icky again).
Hey, guess what? Not only is it Christmas and New Years coming up, and my birthday, but I also get to have my gallbladder removed. Happy Holidays, all!
I’ve got one up on all of you. Not only do I have a cold, but I broke my leg on the 25th Nov, had knee surgery on the 6th Dec, and will be in a cast until the 30th.
Now I have four days of driving to look forward to.
Euuugh. Yeah, about 5 years ago I spent Xmas eve in Emerg b/c the last few days before that eating anything was immediately followed by nausea, cold sweats and very painful diarrhea. Turned out it was gallstones. Felt like a rotting bucket of chum for the whole holiday, and then got to wait till March till I could have my surgery (and it was final exam time in college then, too! Joy.). I feel for ya, 5que, hope you’ll have it better than I did…
And yeah, my festering, maggot-encrusted anus of a boss made me make all sorts of calls to vendors today, even though he could hear how awful I sounded, because, quote: “I don’t really feel like talking to them.” Because of him I now officially have lost my voice. I hope that mouth-breathing pigfucker gets mauled by a pack of rottweilers.
Mine has to stay in for a while. I won’t be able to touch 3/4 of Christmas dinner, or any of the goodies. I’ll be able to eat the carrots, as long as I don’t eat so much so as to get full. Damn, and I was really looking forward to filling up on the Christmas carrots. :rolleyes:
Fuck.
(I have the sniffles, too, so there’s a cold a-brewin’ - my husband is just beginning to recover from his, and he was in the bathroom for over eight hours last night, battling his bowels and sucking the Pepto Bismal bottle dry. Great.)
Tomorrow is the last day of school until January 3rd.
There is a babysitting thingie at our school for Wednesday for $2 an hour per child up to 5 hours.
All the moms were totally jazzed about this.
I just went :rolleyes: and then :dubious: and decided that I didn’t want my children to be infected with some ubergiganticamegabad infection of the worst kind because of this Petry Dish Effect. I think our school is funded by the American Druggist Assoc.
Cost of a baby sitter for 4 hours: 16
Getting the last present for Xmas: 20
Cost of deductibles, copays and a wad of (inneffective)medicines for the Super Strain of Strep-Pink Eye and Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease: Priceless.
There are somethings money can’t buy.
(And for those who miss out on this disease love in, there is always Christmas Service where it is a free for all germ fest.)
My elderly folks and I were just fine for the past two years, at least cold-wise. Then mom took the old man to urgent care for an allergy and was exposed to every coughing person in town. So ensued sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, a trip for mom to the ER for inhalation therapy and some Albuterol and prednisone, trips to the doc for me and dad, multiple trips to the pharmacy, general misery, pills and kleenex and crap everywhere, visiting nurses and more.
Now, after ten or so solid days of illness, we’re finally turning the corner and becoming human again. I gotta say, though, it really sucks the holiday spirit right out of you.
Hope everyone heals up in time for Christmas or at least for New Year’s.
Well, I think so. That’s my GP’s recommendation but I have to talk to the surgeon tomorrow. I already told my GF that I won’t be doing Christmas dinner at her house, because I have no will power not to eat all the fattening foods.
As well as my Birthday cake. Christmas day is also my birthday. I don’t think I don’t say Fuck about that every year too. Now I will just sit at home in the dark and eat worms. That’ll show everyone!
I saw this thread when it was started, and decided to stay out of it, since I feel great! Until today, that is.
My throat is painfully sore, I keep sneezing (my smoking coworkers don’t help - just the smell when they come in from outside is enough to make my sinuses clog up), and the littlest things make me cough. Plus, I’m pregnant, so the list of things I CAN take is woefully short. is me.
Not exactly an ILLNESS, but I’m about six weeks pregnant, and the fatigue and morning sickness have started to hit in full force. I can’t keep my eyes open during the day, and I nearly pulled over to the side of the road to hurl last night on my way home from work. I’m pretty much subsisting on mashed potatoes and corn for dinner.
I always do seem to pick up a nasty cold or flu bug right around Christmas, though - last year, I fell asleep at the in-laws on Christmas Day for four hours with the worst cold I’ve had in years. I’m hoping to avoid the bug this year for the same reason that Avarie537 mentioned - I can’t take a damn thing!
I’ll be having pretty serious jaw surgery on the 22nd, and I will in the hospital until Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. And after that, it’s soup through a syringe for the first week. And then maybe eating stuff like applesauce.
For two months I will be without solid food. They don’t expect the swelling and bruising to go away for awhile. I won’t be able to return to work until mid-January or so.
Also, I have the last remnants of a cold. Fuck it.
I was told Monday that I most likely have MS. Of course, the doctor isn’t sure, so I have to see a different specialist, whom I can’t get in to see until February.
