I am not dead, but I feel like I might be soon. I do not know what I have, but I just got hammered on Tuesday. I woke up fine, by 10 am started to feel bad, by noon felt worse, and by 2 had to go home and go to bed. It has gotten worse since, and I feel like I have one foot in the grave the other on a banana peel. I have scheduled a Dr’s. appt. for tomorrow if I do not feel better (I try to wait a couple days and do these things without drugs).
My secretary said there was a bad bug going around, and that if I caught it I would “spend half your time wondering if you were dying the other half wishing you would.” She was right.
At any rate, thank goodness for Tim F. Otherwise, all you would read here today is me bitching about being sick. Hopefully I will be back tomorrow or Saturday, b ut until then, I am going to go OD on Green Death Nyquil, Tylenol, and hot tea with lemon.
salvage
Ah part of the hazzards of teaching, if there’s an illness you’ll get it.
Hope you’re feeling better soon!
Rusty Shackleford
Get well soon.
zzyzx
I just barely made it into work myself and my girlfriend is calling in sick for the second straight day so it’s hitting up in the northwest too.
Davebo
Hang in there John. And no matter what anyone tells you, don’t put the lime in the coconut!
ppGaz
Rest up. Try to stay hydrated. And take all the time you need to get back on your feet.
Par R
Since this is your seventh siege of illness in the last year, you must be hanging around the wrong kind of crowd….perhaps the ever-growing number of radical lefties on this site are infecting you with more than just bad ideas.
Hope you feel better soon and get well quickly!
Mr Furious
Park your butt in bed or the couch and drink plenty of liquids. Feel better soon.
(You’re going through Republican withdrawal…) ;-)
Jim Allen
This, too, shall pass, John.
Although that may not be something to say to one with the flu…
Steve
I wonder when Don Surber will show up to claim that lefties don’t care whether John feels better.
Don Surber
lefties don’t care whether John feels better.
LOL
Louise
I’ve just gotten over this, John. It was 3-4 days of hell, then 5-6 more days of wondering why I couldn’t get rid of the cough, take a full breath, or feel like I could accomplish anything.
Someone else who had it told me this, and I didn’t believe them. Believe me. Plan on at least a week of being out of it.
Angry Engineer
Well, that right there pretty much describes the last three weeks of my wife’s existance.
Get plenty of rest, and by all means, see a doctor if you get one of those lingering coughs.
Richard 23
Get well soon from the angry moonbat left!
Wickedpinto
“I do not know what I have, but I just got hammered on Tuesday. ”
Umm. . . the “hammered” part of “I just got hammered on tuesday” . . . . .
Do you mean “I foolishly went out on Tuesday and got wrenched, torqued, pissed or drunk?” or do you mean “somehow the illness saved up for one big strike?”
Just wanna clarify. I’ve experienced both.
Steve
Yes, GET WELL SOON!!!!!!! YEEEAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH
You realize, of course, that if Bush hadn’t slashed the public health budget, you probably wouldn’t have this bug.
Krista
Make sure you rest, and relax, and get lots of fluids, hon. Hopefully Tunch will provide comfort (now if we could only train him to make tea and run to the store to buy meds.)
Krista
Steve – be nice.
Steve
Hey, just trying for a chuckle!
Faux News
Ditto.
Stormy70
You might spike that tea and lemon with honey and whiskey. It will put you down into a near coma. I usually feel better after I wake up, but it is very difficult to drink it down. Good luck.
EL
I’ll add my wishes for you to get well soon, John. This sounds like the real deal flu: typically makes people feel they’ve been run over by a truck and can’t get out of bed. You have my sympathy.
Hey, all you posters who can’t take a full breath – get to your doctors! An inhaler, or at least an effective cough syrup, can avert lots of misery.
Krista
You DO realize the teasing you’re going to get from that comment, right? :)
Joey
“NyQuil, NyQuil, NyQuil, we love you, you giant fucking Q.”
over it
Echoing the above…..
Get well soon!
Hot tea, hot bath/shower, warm bed, good book, good drugs. ;)
tzs
Hey, I gotta put in a vote for Stormy’s suggestion here. Hot grog is always good.
Also suggest lots and lots of chicken soup. Protein, liquid, vitamins…put a lot of pepper in it to help clear the sinuses.
Have also had good luck with peppermint tea.
And you could always do my version which is knock-myself-out-with-melatonin-and-sleep-the-damn-thing-off. Sleep is always good.
The Other Steve
Last year on a Wednesday I felt bad, didn’t go to work. Didn’t go to work on thursday either. Felt better friday morning and tried to go to work and felt horrible by noon.
Waited until monday to go to doctor. (Cause I hate doctors, and hoped I’d get better myself)
Turns out I had pneumonia.(If you run a fever, it goes away and then comes back… go to doctor immediately, especially if you are also coughging)
Took the whole next week to recover from that on drug therapy.
So I was out for about 12 days.
This is what HSA’s are designed to encourage, rather than going to the doctor too soon and recovering quicker, cause you know, that might be bad.
Will say this though. Doctors are amazing. If they had not had that pill to take, I probably would have been in bed for the next two months and more than likely died. So I can imagine what my great great grandparents went through.
rilkefan
There was an Opus cartoon the other day which claimed recent studies show cough medicines don’t work – anybody know anything about that?
KC
Good luck John. Hope you get better soon.
Blue Neponset
I think Stormy is right. Although, I would skip the tea and lemon part, but that is just me.
Hope you feel better
ppGaz
Rodney Dangerfield:
“My doctor gave me a powerful sleeping pill. I said, when should I take it? He said, when you wake up.”
Mary
Yes, stay in bed, have some nice garlicky chicken soup, pet the cat, and remember that this, too, shall pass.
Next winter, try to get Cold-FX from Canada. It’s a ginseng extract that has real studies in real refereed journals showing that it’s effective at shortening colds. I felt like hot crap on wheels last night, but it looks as if I’ll be as good as new by tomorrow.
The Cold-FX site claims that several double blind studies using placebos and the real medication have been done, but they didn’t provide links. However, via PubMed, I found this CMAJ study which looks like decent evidence for some reduction in frequency and duration of colds via the use of Cold-FX.
The article also references this other double blind study with placebos: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2004 Jan;52(1):13-9.
Krista
(ominously)”First, they come for our Cold FX, then for our water, and then for our women…”
The Other Steve
True. Same with cough drops.
decongestants work. But the cough suppresants don’t really do anything.
They say the reason why cough drops work is that they help keep your throat moist so it doesn’t feel as irritated. You can just buy hard candy like lemon drops and accomplish the same thing.
An interesting thing… The Hall’s drops make me physically sick.
John Cole
Thanks for all the well wishes. GOing to the Dr. tomorrow AM.
Re: colugh drops. My brother has brought me two bags of red cherry Halls- whyich I hate.
When I want a cough drop, I want something like Fisherman’s Friend, which I can not find around here anymore. And that really pisses me off.
Krista
Really? You can’t find Fisherman’s Friend there? That’s awful. I rely on those nasty things during cold season. Email me your mailing address, and what flavour you want — I’ll get you some next time I’m at the pharmacy.
Angry Engineer
I don’t care much for medicine-like cough drops, but I really like Hall’s Fruit Breezers.
Steve
This business of people having to get their drugs from Canada has officially gone too far.
Ancient Purple
John,
I hope you feel better soon. I shall consult the Ancient Purple Orb of Healing and have vibes sent you way.
Barring that, I suggest heavy medication.
ppGaz
PoTD runner-up.
Besides, as the president pointed out in the 2004 debates, we can’t guarantee the safety of cough drops from Canada.
Krista
LOL
That was such a ridiculous argument for him to make, wasn’t it? I didn’t realize I was in so much danger, living in this backwards, jerked-off, technologically decrepit country.