So, I got a flu shot this year. I don’t mind shots, so I was glad for it
Then I got a cold. It sucked and I was on the couch for a weekend. I could deal with that.
My cough hung around for about a week and I was eating cough drops like candy. And, finally, this weekend I no longer had to blow my nose every few minutes. I could sleep and not wake up because I felt like I was suffocating.
Then today. It was nice of you to wait until after I finished my test before you betrayed me. I mean, who doesn’t want to take a test then go straight to re-experience breakfast in a bathroom stall that smells of urine? That was wonderful.
The next few times were great, too. Those cookies that had congealed into a clay like substance? Choking on that while simultaneously dry heaving? I did not even know that that was possible.
I’ve brushed my teeth enough to last me for weeks, but I still smell vomit. I think it is in my nose.
Now all I want to do is eat some crackers and go to bed, but I can’t. I wish I would throw up, one more time. At least then it wouldn’t feel like my shirt was trying to strangle me or that my stomach was somewhere around my collarbone.
I’ve been more sick this year than the past five years together. I just want to sleep through the rest of the season. Instead I’ll take two hours to drink a glass of water and keep carrying the stupid green puke bowl. I’ll fall asleep dreaming of soup and toast. Tomorrow I’ll get to writing papers and speeches but tonight I wallow in self pity and whining.
And since this is the pit- Fuck the fucker who though making high powered flushes were a good idea. If it flushes so fast it turns into a bidet? You’re not doing it right.
Faux bidets are the worst! I can’t imagine having to use one for vomiting purposes…it is bad enough trying to pee in one and having it splash back all over you but with vomit it sounds about a bajillion times worse! Feel better soon!
You remember it’s glory? From month before last , when you enrolled?:dubious: Ohhhhh, you must be a long-time lurker. So nice of you to judge pit threads when you went all that time without posting.
Advice you didn’t ask for, but I’m going to give you anyways:
Go sit in the sunshine. You will manufacture Vitamin D, which your immune system needs. You will also warm up your chest, which will increase blood flow and help you fight off the nasties.
Get your hands on some honey. BBC published an article recently that showed a spoonful of honey worked better as a cough suppressant than any OTC medication. I’ve tried it myself, and it’s amazing. A spoonful lasts about 20-30 minutes, sometimes longer.
Pickled ginger for the tummy or ginger ale with real ginger in it.
Hot tea of any sort you can stand. Again, warms you up, increases blood supply, et cetera. I love rose hip tea, because it has tons of Vitamin C.
I hope you feel better. I hope the germs that got you die miserable, excrutiating, humiliating deaths.
Hawkins, can you please email TubaDiva (TubaDiva at aol dot com) with your previous username so she can combine the two accounts? We don’t allow users to have multiple accounts – in cases like this, we just need to merge them. Thanks.