Surprisingly, this is only my second post complaining about being sick. Seeing as, apart from working to earn money to sustain my existence, being sick is the activity that takes up the most amount of time in my life, I thought it would have received more ink. In February, much to my dismay, I discovered a new allergy. In addition to being allergic, with increasingly severe symptoms, to every mammal on God's green earth ( except humans, also known as the most dangerous game/allergen) I am now extremely allergic to the pollen from cedar trees. This stuff hangs like fog in the Nagasaki air for about a month and is like breathing in an aerosol mist of battery acid.
The allergies left me open for a cold which lead to another cold and another and another culminating (knock on wood) with bronchitis last week. I missed a day of work and actually broke down and went to see a doctor. After a dose of antibiotics and five days and nights of hacking up green slime I seem to have finally pulled away from Death's outstretched hand, faked left and gone right, and am seeing some open field.
It seems this is my life now. Living between colds, flus, allergy attacks, and assorted headaches and stomach aches. I really should make a point of filling my healthy days with as much productive activity as my wandering mind and feeble body can endure. There are days when my mind feels sharp, I have no aches, pains, or minor (and I mean MINOR) ailments to distract me. On those days the sundry thoughts that have been fading in and out of tune in my mind finally come in loud and clear. Everything finally gathers together from a messy pile into a neat little stack ready to be pushed out of the slot in a perfect package. Unfortunately these days are often spent watching reruns of The Amazing Race.
Not his time! I'm back from the brink and I can't be stopped!
(Except by a cold)
The thing about a cold, flu or allergy is you're not supposed to complain and all 'cause "it's just a cold, think of people with serious diseases and whatnot." But man, trudging around with cold or allergy symptoms SUCKS! Then you take Tylenol Cold or Sinutab or Reactine and you feel like a zombie with slightly deadened symptoms.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this post I was about 2 days into my first cold in nearly a year. I do recall how often you were stricken with this type of thing. It totally bites. Kelly always says I get a cold every year early in the Spring, so surely it's seasonal allergies. Doesn't make a damn bit of difference. Same exact symptoms. Starts with shivers and some achiness, then sore throat for a few days, congestions, some sinus pressure and headaches, maybe some coughing. After two days of taking meds the stomach just gives out and I'm popping Tums. You have a drink then you feel good and numb for an hour then you feel ten times worse. On and on it goes.
It'll be a week tomorrow and I'm finally over the hump, feeling a bit better today than yesterday. I empathize with your constant state of urgency to live life to the fullest before the next cold hits. I've been lucky enough to have only 1 or 2 a year in recent times.
May I suggest an experimental-medical-themed number to cheer you up. How about "Ravenous Medicine" by Voivod? That and a little Neo Citran and gin should do the trick.
Are you actually allergic to cats now too? I'm sure in Japan it's possible to switch your lungs and other body parts with robotic replicas. Good
ReplyDeleteadvice eh?
spent all my money on a bionic wang
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