I'm so sorry for all the holiday sickies! It's difficult to be or enjoy the merry and bright when you're all phlegmy and difficult of breath.

Teppy, you want I should bring you some salt? Might it help? I will say Tyco is the absolute bomb for pain for me. Never mind the other, more arcane pain stuff--just gimme the good codiene and tylenol.

I'm sorry, Jars. That sucks. Are trains and ferries or whatnot running in this weather, or would that make a doable holiday trip take longer than the holiday?

What a shame your travel plans are in such disarray, Jars. I don't know what to wish for you, other than some way to find some holiday cheer.

Seska, I'm glad you are feeling better.

I don't know that I can take much more snow, myself. We've had three significant snow storms in the space of ten days. I hope we don't get any more snow until I finish the antibiotics from the throat infection I got from the first snow storm. I'm already getting panicky just from the thought of snow.

As you can tell from my crazy beep me post, I feel some of your pain, jars! I am v glad for wifi and friends. (apparently my brother has wifi on the bus. Who knew?) flight should be boarding now but isn't so we shall see...

Hope you get on your plane, meara!

My plans are still kind of up in the air. May still be able to get a flight on Christmas Eve, but if not I've rebooked for after Christmas. All the trains and ferries are booked up until after Christmas. The soonest BA would offer G another flight would get him in to Boston at 11pm on Christmas day, so that's not a particularly nice option.

Jars, that bites. Stupid weather.

We are keeping a (jaundiced) eye on the weather here, too; we've got a freezing rain forecast wavering in and out, and after the Driving Through DeathStorm 201o last year, I flatly told D if the weather was bad, we were staying home.

I hope the forecast changes for the better.

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Teppy, you want I should bring you some salt? Might it help?

Hee! We'll always have Cleveland, Bev!

Since I am Instant Gratification Girl, I woke up today thinking that SURELY I would feel all better and BURSTING with good health. I mean, I've already had 2 whole doses of antibiotics!

Seriously, I do always think that when I start a course of meds for an illness. Sadly, the meds don't work that way. Although I have a surge of speed-freaky energy going on from the steroid shot, which is good, since I have a LOT of work to do.

And the codeine is my new best friend, because I am down to almost no coughing. Woo!

DJ so sorry. Teppy glad you finally went to doctor. Oh and Hil, Years ago my dentist gave me some statistics on how people who have wisdom teeth out end up in better dental health than those who leave teeth in. But at the time he told me a minority disagreed with routine wt extraction. Don't know current thinking on this. Ah same debate: [link]

According to above link (and I have no reason to think particularly reliable) most people don't have room in mouth for WT. One thing that should be checked: if they crowd your mouth they can cause all sort of problems.

We'll always have Cleveland

Yep.

And the codeine is my new best friend

I swear that codeine is the only thing that stops coughing. With the bronchitis I had as a kid, I would cough for weeks and I remember night after night sitting up coughing into a pillow because I didn't want to keep waking people up. Teachers would send me home because of the cough, even though my mother would beg them to let me stay, because the disease was over. (I missed about a third of first and second grade.) Then as an adult, I was prescribed codeine. I had the best doctor in the world as a child, but why was there no codeine?

Dr. Marchuk was pretty conservative about some things, so I actually understand why. He was the one who told me, "You must never smoke," and tried to get adults to cut down or quit, back in the '50s when smoking was on practically no doctor's radar. He was an Austrian emigre who fled Hitler without enough documentation to prove he was already a doctor, so he went to medical school again. He also made house calls.

Happy birthday, Shanie!

Good morning, yon Bitches. I'm sitting here, bleary, trying to fight off some sort of ick that I just don't have time for. My mother descends tomorrow (she's flying through Minneapolis-- HA!) and I have a shitton to do before then. Including wrap her presents.

She's probably going to be disappointed and yet... I find myself not worried about it.

So sorry about the other sickies and all the travel woes. I think we need a Buffista holiday that would take place like in... February. On Buffista Island. With nice moderate temperatures and no travel issues.