Soliciting sympathy

[Legs]

Legs----> :flu:

I woke up with fever, chills, aches and I need an instant cure, if anyone has a recommendation. :signpls:

If not, just let me feel the love :(

[beyelzu]

shots of 151, it wont make you feel better, but after a few you wont give a shit that you are sick.


I am sorry you feel like ass, legs.


:(

[viscousmemories]

Sorry, Legs. :(

I'm all about the giant fucking Q, as Denis Leary says. NyQuil: It's what's for dinner.

[Ensign Steve]

:nurse:

I heard that you were feeling ill.
Headache, fever, and a chill.
I came to help restore your pluck.
Cuz I'm the nurse who likes to fuck!

[Legs]

:\

[Beth]

Sorry Legs. When I feel like this, I take NyQuill liqui-gels, because the liquid makes me violently ill. I also like drinking hot lemon and mint tea with honey. I hope you feel better soon.:hug:

[Ymir's blood]

:\Leave me out of this please. ;)

I'm sorry to hear that you are ill. I'm still coughing up junk from last week's mess and pescifish's bronchitis isn't going away either, it seems.

[Legs]

:\Leave me out of this please. ;)


lol ~ I was just looking for the correct expression - I didn't realize that was your smilie

[JoeP]

Sending sympathy :sendmail: :mail2: :lovenote:

[Legs]

lol Joe, can you trade the snail in for the pony express? :gallop:

[JoeP]

I'm not sure if I can catch it now!

[pescifish]

Chicken soup all around!

I sure as heck don't have any instant cures and if you figure one out, as Ymir's blood suggests, I could use it too. :\

It sucks to be sick as a dog.

Well, not as sick as my dogs. They are healthy as horses!
Oops, not healthy as my horse -- 'cuz she's dead.

Anyway, I sure hope you feel better really soon!

lol ~ I was just looking for the correct expression - I didn't realize that was your smilie
He used The Winkie! ;)

[Gurdur]

Good luck, Legs. Loads of sympathy to you.
Drink tons of hot tea or coffee all the time, it will really help.

[Legs]

Thanks everyone, I have been drinking hot tea all day.

This is the first day in years that I just stayed home on the couch watching movies. We watched Contact (Jodie Foster), Papillon (Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman), The Red Violin (Samuel L Jackson) and now we are just settling in for The Village :eek:

Thanks for the love :bouquet:

[freemonkey]

Sometimes you just need to lay on the couch and watch movies. Its better if you don't feel icky, though. Hope you feel better soon.

[Crumb]

Sorry you are feeling ill. Sounds like you are doing the right thing. Maybe The Village will scare the little beasties out of ya'.

[CARLA]

:nurse: I'm so sorry your feeling bad legs, it has gone around so many times this year.. I tried to cure myself with the Q.. Thought I was a little better, than went down for the count again.. :sick: :sneeze: Then I gave up and went to urgent care.. Well I had sinusitis, and bronchitis.. put me on heavy antibiotic, and cough syrup with CODEINE YUMMY...!! sleep was great. I still have the cough a bit.. But feel much better.. :slide: :frolic: :bliss: Don't wait to long to seek medical attention.. :yup:

[Petra]

Oh, man. Being sick is a bitch.


Hmmm. Will a poem make you feel better?


here's one anyway...


From Blossoms
Li-Young Lee

From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the joy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.


I hope you feel better soon. :yup:

[Legs]

Thanks Luna :) peaches, yumm

I am not sure how I feel yet today - I just woke up at 11:00am :eek:

[livius drusus]

How'd you like The Red Violin, Legs? I adore that movie from beginning to end, especially

how the tarot reading equates the wife's fate with the violin's thereby extending her a kind of eternal life of passion, love and adventure.

Anyhoo, I'm a bit under the weather myself today (stomach upset), so I'm more than glad to join the pity party. Awwww... poor Legs. :huggle:

[godfry n. glad]

Basic bottom line: Get lotsa rest and drink lotsa fluids.

The tea you're doing is good. Water is good. Sleep; a lot. Chicken soup is good to for electrolytes and sustenance. I'm a big fan of milk toast, but that's milk, which is anathema to many because of it's mucous production properties.

If the symptoms are so annoying that you wish to mask them, NyQuil capsules will do it. I take it so I can sleep, though, not go to work...which is the worst thing you can do. There is a DayQuil...but, hey. Take the OTC stuff to counter the things that keep you from sleeping, then sleep.

Here's a prescription med recommendation if you have coughing, like with bronchitis. Tessalon, aka benzonatate, works wonders for me. I don't like codeine at all (it makes me rummy and queasy at the same time), so I was prescribed this. It's a liquid capsule that looks very much like a vitamin E caplet. The used to be round and were called "cough pearls". I learned this all when I had bronchitis with my pneumonia.

Take care of yourself. Rest and fluids. Don't spread it around.

godfry

(oh...and I like to those little tiny pathetic moans.....oooh....ohhh...oohhn.......ohhh...)

[livius drusus]

I am sorry you feel like ass, legs.


:giggle:

[pescifish]

Here's a prescription med recommendation if you have coughing, like with bronchitis. Tessalon, aka benzonatate, works wonders for me. I don't like codeine at all (it makes me rummy and queasy at the same time), so I was prescribed this.Hey, thanks for the suggestion, godfry! Cough syrup, even prescription just doesn't cut it.

For me with coughs, I like hydrocodone. I hate-hate-hate codeine** and tell the docs I'm allergic, though that is not strictly true. I hallucinate with codeine which makes me dizzy, nauseas to the point of throwing up. Plus I hate hallucinating.

However, when I was in Georgia last year and became ill, the doc there prescribed Hydrocodone APAP (I believe it's also known as Vicodin) specifically for cough suppression. It worked very well -- the narcotic actually acts on the brain's cough reflex to suppress it.

Right now, I've been struggling to get rid of bronchitis, sinusitis and an ear infection for over two weeks now. Antibiotic seems to have worked on the seconday head stuff, but my chest and resulting cough is beating me senseless. When I went in the first time, the doc prescribed some lameass cough syrup that did little. But I went in yesterday again and cajoled the doc to give me the Hydrocodone. He did, but it seemed he was reluctant: "We don't prescribe that for cough suppression, just pain." I finally slept last night and my coughing fits are few and much more productive.

I'll remember your suggestion above in case my abject pleading for my preferred narcotic doesn't work!

** My last experience with codeine was so unfortunate I will refuse it forever: I had my tonsils removed as an adult of 33 years and tolerated the procedure pretty well. However, in the post op room waiting for my ride to come and pick me up, they kindly gave me a little cup of liquid "oh, take this for the pain, dear". The room was spinning within 15 minutes (and a lovely pink elephant with a typewriter and an umbrella along with it circled the ceiling). I was so nauseas, but... uh... throat surgery, cut open back of throat and stitches and... Fuck me, I threw up right then. Most gawdawful thing, I tell ya!

[Legs]

liv ~ I love the Red Violin from start to fini, one of my favorite movies and at the end notice they have left room for a Red Violin II, the story continues.

godfry, I have been taking Neocitron and it knocks me out big time. Thanks for the advice, I am sending my husband on a drug run today for me. :yup:

[viscousmemories]

I loved The Red Violin too, and Papillion is a classic. I hated Contact, though. It was just too cheesy and I thought the end was just too absurd.

[Legs]

and Papillion is a classic.

When he was in solitary confinement eating spiders and drinking rain water... I felt much better about having the flu :chuckle:

[viscousmemories]

That's how I felt when I read The Plague in the County jail. :D

[Cool Hand]

:nurse:

I heard that you were feeling ill.
Headache, fever, and a chill.
I came to help restore your pluck.
Cuz I'm the nurse who likes to fuck!

Legs who?

After reading this post, I'm starting to feel really bad myself, as in need of immediate medical attention. Headache, fever, chill, need of a spongebath? Yeah, I've got 'em all.

Nurse!

CH

[Ensign Steve]

Oh, man. Being sick is a bitch.


Hmmm. Will a poem make you feel better?

Odd. The first one didn't. Ah, well, at least CH has some class.

[Legs]

Odd. The first one didn't.
The first one just made me horny :lecher:

[Legs]

Legs who?

Hey buddy, get your own sympathy thread :glare:

[koan]

Raise your body temperature to sweat it out and kill the virus. Go in the bathroom and turn the shower on high heat until it turns into a sauna and take cayenne pepper. Uncomfortable but it works.