I did not make warm, life-affirming soup for my family before their departure to Oregon. Instead, I told them I was sick and they should bring food, so they did. When I said hello to…
Posts tagged sick
Day 163 of 200: The Consumption
At one point today I sat on the couch coughing and crying and feeling so miserable that I didn’t know what to do with myself. I can’t remember the last time I was this sick…
Day 111 of 200: The Germs Continue to Win
I’m only a little bit pissed that I didn’t start this whole 200-day project a day earlier so that my 111th post would have happened yesterday on 11/11. Damnit. Of course, to be fair, I…
Day 110 of 200: Two Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people when it comes to getting sick — those who want to be nursed back to health by someone else and those who want to die alone in peace. I’m…
Two Kinds of People or, I think I’m getting a cold
I like to joke that there are two kinds of people in those world: those who don’t mind being lumped into a group based on some arbitrary measurement and boring stick in the muds. Boring…
A host of woes & one golden ray of sunshine
I’ve been having some server issues. It started a week or so ago when I was editing an older post, correcting some typo (oh yes, I correct them when I spot them. However, I do…
Things that have caused me to throw my head back and whine like a 2 year old, a list
I have a cold. I’ve had it since Friday and it has reduced me to a snotty (literally) 2-year-old brat (figuratively). Things that have caused me to whine audibly in a manner unbecoming a 38-year-old…
The rabid chipmunk makes me more emotional than usual
Even on my best days I’m kind of a crybaby. For reasons I cannot explain, crying is my go-to form of expressing emotion — sad, happy, angry, afraid — you name it, I cry. I…
On time warps and having mono
First of all, I have decided I have mono. I’ve come to this conclusion based on two symptoms. I’ve been really tired lately, and for the past two days the lymph nodes under my chin…
The Tibbleflu claims more victims
I promised my immune system that I would buy it something pretty if it beat off the Tibbleflu like the champ I knew it was. Well, I am here to tell my immune system isn’t…