It's 3:45 AM Thursday morning. I have been wandering aimlessly through the Internet backwaters, not really looking for anything in particular. Like a kid kickin a can down the street and following it wherever it led him. I am only semi awake I guess. Much of what I have stumbled upon this dark thirty should have raised more than just my eyebrow. But there it is. Obnoxious websites spouting hate and discontent and all I can do is grunt in disgust. I have bookmarked a few to return to later once my Righteous Indignation tank has been re-filled. Or when I wake up. Which ever comes first.Since it is flu season, and also a flu season brought in with much more fanfare than the usual media blitzkrieg, many people, including yours truly, keep wondering when their number will be up. All around folks have been dropping like flies and yet I am still standing. I did not get a flu shot. Come to think of it I have never gotten a flu shot. And every so often I get the flu or a cold. Hmm. Do you think there is a correlation?
So a few days ago as my wife was recovering from a bad cold, I began to notice "the tickle" in the back of my throat. At first I decided it was like when she was pregnant, I was just experiencing sympathy tickles. Then I decided that no, I was probably most likely going to have to deal with what she just went through.
Of all the various ways illnesses manifest themselves in my body, coughing has to be the one that drives me the craziest. I hate coughing. I fear coughing. I will do or try almost anything to not have to cough. Almost anything.
So my wife suggests I eat lots of vitamin C tabs over the course of the day. I listen and say "Yes Dear." And I think, "Right. How's that plan worked out for you so far?" In desperation though, I have been pounding down the C tabs every few hours. The cough has come. The achy ear has come home to roost. But up until today I have managed to avoid the worse of the worst. And today I feel like dog shit.
Did I just put off the inevitable? Or will this be as bad as it gets and tomorrow I will be spry and handsome again?
Stay tuned...................
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2 comments:
Sorry you are sick, I just get the sniffles and seldom a cold. As for coughing, I smoke so it's just a given that I will some.
What I hate most is when something is wrong on my head, like a hurting eye, tooth, ear, something hurting on the head is a real pain in the ass for me.
It's 3:45 AM Thursday morning. I have been wandering aimlessly through the Internet backwaters, not really looking for anything in particular.
When I'm up at that time of night I do the post I wrote the day before cuz I write all my posts the day before, and then I spend the next few hours going through the comics and news.
After that if I have time I visit blogs, otherwise they wait until later in the day.
Peppermint Schnapps is good for a raspy pipe, drink enough of it and you don't even give a fuck, it just knocks you out.
Here's hoping you don't have what I had. Neither the swine flu nor the black death, but there was coughing and damn if your upper back didn't ring like hells bells when you wheezed.
Still have the sore throat? That's a sonofabitch when you're trying to actually eat.
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