Cover your cough, please
The Pestilence (as Lisa B-K dubbed this particular brand of respiratory yuck) is still firmly rooted in my bronchial tubes and sinuses. I seem to have pulled a muscle in my lower abdomen. At least, that’s what I think it is, but I’m wondering because when I cough it feels like something’s ripping. Let’s all pray together that I’m not developing a hernia. Jeebus.
My gift from Chris—a wind machine for my bike so I can ride for miles and miles in my own basement—sits in its new home, bike already hooked up, waiting for me to be able to draw a breath without hacking up a lung. The extra ten pounds on my belly, brought to you by holiday baked goods, isn’t amused either.
It’s a bloody good thing I didn’t make any foolhearty New Years resolutions about getting up early and riding for an hour every day. Or staying up late to work on my novel. Or making more wholesome meals in the crockpot before leaving for work, instead of ordering in pizza when I stumble across the threshold at the end of the day feeling as if I’ve been pulled through a tiny hole.
How are you? Better than this, I hope.
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
January 4th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
yes, better than that. I hope your new year gets off to a better start soon!
January 5th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I had that for 2 weeks before Christmas. And then it kinda mostly went away. And then I had stomach flu Christmas night. And then the next day the cough came back. After FINALLY relenting and calling to ask for antibiotics, they told me this strain is viral and to just wait it out. How far are we past Christmas? I”m FINALLY better. What a sucky way to spend a MONTH.
Eff New Year’s anything when you’re sick. Just hole up, enjoy that pizza, and heal, babe.
January 5th, 2007 at 11:29 am
That sounds so awful! I haven’t had a really bad cough or head cold like that in a surprisingly long time (for the last few years I seem to have gotten at least three doozies a year to accompany the other five less intense colds). I really hope it lets go of you soon.
You do what you have to to get through it. There’s lots of time yet to accomplish goals and get back in shape.
January 5th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Ugh. I hate persistent crud–where you start to forget what feeling well feels like.
This is a good time of year to take care of yourself. I often wonder if so many of us get sick because we overdo our efforts to undo all the holiday goodies at a time of the year that is more conducive to rest. Or maybe I’m just making excuses?
January 6th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Massage Hero says, da da daaaaa, “You need a massage. I’ll be there straight away with my trusty table and lovely lotion to save the day.”
(Imagine Mighty Mouse