And I have a department co-worker who is home right now with non-swine flu, so I'm sitting here, wondering if my sniffles is something more than allergies, or my slight neck ache is from something more than my sleeping on the couch last night.

I hate it when I get paranoid about my health!

I sure hope you start feeling better.

Me? Thanks!

Whatever this infection is its a doozy. It has made its way from system to system in my body for ten days now. First we had the typical clammy/sweaty/fever/achy thing. Then we got the resperatory symptoms (the really hurty kind of cough). Those are pretty normal.

But then it got weird...

There was a little bladder infection.

Then there were crazy giant pimples in random places on my body.

Then my throat blew up like it hasn't since I recovered from the quinsy/mono/crazy tonsiliectomy period of my youth -- it was so swollen I could feel all the old scar tissue and DayQuil liquicaps would get lodged.

Then I woke up with conjunctivitis in both eyes!

Then a few days of laryngitis.

Just wacky. Every bit of me seemed to take a turn.

Now I'm down to the "lingering cough" stage. I probably won't do the AIDS Walk this weekend since I'm pretty easily tired and might still be coughing. The thought of 5 miles is a little horrifying.

I hate that you don't have health insurance, Trudy. Wish I could loan you mine so you could have seen the doctor. That sounds like a terrible cold.

I need to stop playing with my DVR. I just logged in to make sure it wasn't going to run out of space. Then I went ahead and scrolled through upcoming movies and added a couple. I have also discovered that I can stream music from it over the Internet. I don't know why I never tried that before.

Is Google broken for anyone else? I enter a search term, and it doesn't come back with anything.

Then I woke up with conjunctivitis in both eyes!

Me, too! It's so attractive

I'm pretty sure mine is just sinuses run horribly amok -- face aching, headache, congestion, cough, sore throat. I'm getting antibiotics today because my doctor called something in for me, thank god

tom, it is working with me.

Tom, no, it's behaving.

Baaaaby Pigeons!

I had to search for something....

::snuggles glamcookie::

Not having sick days was worse, really. Rest and fluids is not quite as effective when its just fluids.

Right now is exciting though, I'm finally playing with a band and part of my not resting was this past weekend's rehearsal! Woot!

I'm lucky that I'm a basically strong and healthy person, you know? When my Mother or someone else with poor health gets a bad bug its pretty dangerous and it can take them literally months to fully recover.

I'll feel like hell, but other than the first two nights with fever dreams and taking a bus back from Bamboozle a little delerious (either of which would have been alieviated by not being alone) its never actually frightening. I'm going to get better. The chances of this becoming dangerous are quite small. I'll probably have a lingering cough for a couple of weeks since this was a pretty bad one, but I don't have much likelyhood of that becoming chronic.

Right now I mostly want to sleep. And learn chord progressions.

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