Being sick is hell

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

Between my constant coughing and the pain of my raw, sore throat, I couldn't sleep hardly at all last night. Despite having taken Nyquil, cough suppressants, and even blasting my throat with that foul sore throat spray. Having a cold is such misery.

I have to remind myself that 'this too shall pass' and it's only a temporary condition. With each day worse than the preceding one, I have to wonder when I'll hit bottom and can start to get better.

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[sarahetc.livejournal.com]

That's the worst part. When you can't remember what it feels like to be well and it just seems like the awful will keep going and going. I heart you! I hope you feel better!

Did you try something hot to soothe your throat? It doesn't always work, but sometimes it works a lot better than cold. Just get it as hot as you can take it, like you were going to make tea, but instead of tea, maybe just stir in a little honey (which should help the cough a bit, too) and drink it that way.

Are you running a fever?

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

I did try the gargling with warm salt water, and it helped a bit. Thanks for the idea.

Thank you also for your concern and for replying to these sickness posts!

I feel a bit better now. It's 10 in the morning, and I was able to go back to sleep and sleep for a little while without waking up to cough. I am fortunate that I don't have to work for now. Is it just me, or are colds a lot worse during the night? All night I was coughing and my throat was on fire (despite the medicine I'd taken right before bed), but now the coughing has slowed down a lot and my throat is still sore but better. It was the same way yesterday.

Fortunately, no fever. Yay!

[razycrandomgirl.livejournal.com]

They do seem to get worse at night, but I think tha's because you're trying to fall asleep. During the day there are things to distract you, but at night it's dark and ... it's like in that Blindfold fic you wrote; Every thing's heightened.

I know when I'm stick and I try to fall asleep the worse part for me is breathing. I don't like to breathe through my mouth but my nose just gets so stuffed it sucks! And if the pain/discomfort is really bad than my thumb sucking kicks in, but that's only if it's really, really bad. :X

Once went I was younger I had a sore throat. Went to that doctor and he told my mom to give me ice cream, She gave me Spaghetti. It burned. :X But I think it did help. The heat from the tempter and the acid in the tomato must have soothed it or something. Maybe? I don;t know, My immune system it petty good usually. I don't get sick a lot.

Hope you feel better.

Are you looking forward to going back to work?

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the well wishes. I really hope that today's the worst day and it'll start looking better tomorrow.

Are you looking forward to going back to work?

A small part of me misses it and wants to go back. But honestly, I think I'd be happy to sit home and get paid indefinitely if it were possible. :) Next week is my last week off. I hope I feel better by then and can do some of the fun things I wanted to. My friend Laurie and I are going to the Planetarium on Thursday, I wanted to buy a few outfits for work at the upscale resale shop, and I do want to hit the rollercoaster park again since I shelled out for the season pass.

[razycrandomgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay Rollercoasters! I'm a big fan!

[sarahetc.livejournal.com]

I'm glad there's no fever. I was getting ready to be like, "Doctor! Strep! Ack!"

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

I did have that once as an adult, and it was no picnic. Have you had it recently? Strep is so icky.

When I had it, I remember having overwhelming fatigue along with the sore throat. Fortunately (I guess) I read that if you're coughing along with the sore throat, it's not usually strep. And I'm lucky not to have a fever.

[sarahetc.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. I haven't been ill since I stopped working at the museum. I did, however, have Whooping Cough a few years ago and that taught me that skulking around toughing it out does nobody any favors. Had I been smart and gone to the doctor before I had fever and really severe night sweats, I might have been able to catch it in time to treat it. What's worse is that I was walking around, incubating it and probably passing it on, because I had so much contact with the public at the time. And while vaccinations keep most people safe, many people don't vaccinate against it because they think it doesn't exist anymore, like smallpox. I felt pretty guilty about that.

Okay, that was my grody story! Sorry! No strep, thankfully. And none for you either, thankfully.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Whopping cough, eh? What are the symptoms? (Actually, I can just go look them up. Whatever the case, I'm glad it's long gone from your system!)

[razycrandomgirl.livejournal.com]

I heard you cough and cough and cough until your stomach muscles atrophy. Sorry. I'm glad I never had that. :X



uh'm ... feel free to hit me.

[razycrandomgirl.livejournal.com]

strep sucks!

[invisibleshrew.livejournal.com]

Gah.

Colds are just vile - especially the ones that drag on and on. I offer my favourite old-fashioned remedy in the fairly certain assumption that you're too sensible to use it:

Squeeze a fistful of lemons into a large mug. Add as much whisky as you can drink without getting a hangover. Top up with boiling water (depending on your alcohol tolerance, there may not be much topping up involved). Add sugar or honey to taste. Drink. Get into a bed with every blanket you own piled onto it. Sweat. Pass out.

It usually makes me feel better, anyway...

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the remedy! Wow. I don't normally drink at all, but my cold has me in such a state of misery that I might just drive to the store, buy some whisky, and try it.

[invisibleshrew.livejournal.com]

See above re : too sensible.

I do hope that you're feeling better today.

[razycrandomgirl.livejournal.com]

LMAO I offer my favorite old-fashioned remedy in the fairly certain assumption that you're too sensible to use it.
I wanna try that one day!

Did you really try that?

I usually just take vitamins. :-(

[invisibleshrew.livejournal.com]

Vitamins are good, healthy things. Yes.

And I am an old soak.

Yes, I do that. But knowing where the cut-off lies between a distancing buzz and hangover material is kinda integral to the "remedy".

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. If you don't know the difference, you could end up feeling worse in the long run.

[zooey-glass04.livejournal.com]

Woe for being ill *hugs* I hope you feel better soon. Maybe you should go to the doctors, if your throat is still bad :(

In the meantime, to cheer you up, have a snippet of Wash and Zoe's wedding day. This is from a really old WIP which will probably never go anywhere, but I still kind of like and, so if it can cheer you up a bit it will have served a useful purpose. Unbetaed and therefore very unpolished, but a bit of schmoopy fun for your sickbed.

Children! Crawling all over the gorramed ship!’ Mal looks about as cheerful as if a horde of rabid geese had descended on them… which, going by the colourful medley of food smeared all over the cargo bay, they might as well have done.

‘Aww, Cap’n, it’s sweet!’ Kaylee chides him. ‘All of ‘em was so excited to see where Wash ‘n Zoe was going to live.’

‘They coulda seen it!' Mal objects. 'Coulda sat right outside and looked at it all day. Don’t see no need for all this traipsing in and out with beds and sweets and children!’

Wash clears his throat, faintly abashed. ‘Well, we’re already upsetting them enough by skipping off before they get all the visiting done, we had to at least let them give us the bed. My mother’s a bit of a traditionalist.’

Jayne brightens considerably. ‘A traditionalist? That mean we git to come in an’ out your bunk the next three days?’ A misty look comes over his face, which Wash is pretty certain has nothing to do with a love of traditional wedding etiquette and everything to do with Jayne’s continuing quest to see down his new bride’s top.

Wash draws himself up into a warrior-like stance, ‘I’m not a traditionalist, Jayne’. He hopes his draping robe doesn’t diminish the manliness of the pose. Then feeling Zoe draw herself up behind him, he reflects that it doesn’t much matter whether he looks martial. He’ll never have to look martial again, not now he has his beautiful bride, his Zoe whose power and grace will always-

‘I don’t know, honey, I’m getting mighty attached to these traditions of yours. Jayne’s welcome to come in our bunk on our honeymoon –‘

‘Y’think it’s healthy to go that shade ‘a purple, Inara?’ Kaylee remarks, regarding Wash in the speculative manner she normally reserves for the ship’s engine.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the snippet! It definitely cheered me up and made me smile.

And you know I'll be smiling more if you ever do post the full version.

Which reminds me that somewhere out there I have a brief Z/W fic, my beta tester requested extensive revisions, and I never got around to doing them. Instead of letting it sit, I wonder if I should just post it. Even though I'm sure my beta was right that it needed a lot of work.

[ninamonkey.livejournal.com]

*Hugs!* I'm sorry you're sick, dearest - take plenty of zinc lozenges and take vitamin C/chicken soup. I know you know that...but rest! Rest and fluids are the key to getting better. :(

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

I do think that this just needs to run its course and I need to be patient. Being sick sure makes me appreciate when my body does function well.

[nytshd3.livejournal.com]

aww, i'm sorry to hear you're still not feeling well :( i was hoping it would pass quickly. well, hopefully you'll be on the road to recovery soon! :)

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

For some reason I thought it'd pass quickly too. We're just too optimistic. :P