Hobbes ([info]kitling) wrote,
@ 2009-06-12 13:45:00
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Current mood: sick

For someone who boasts that the advantage of having arthritis is uber immune system that means I don't tend to pick up all the little colds and sniffles etc that go round. Well, I'm good at chronic pain but I actually really really suck at being sick!

Halp! I haz cold, I don't think its bacon fever, but given the symptoms are pretty much flu symptoms - well you know.

Plz send chicken soup (or nearest vegetarian equivalent), and hugs. I'd also like more brain candy reading material and tv to watch, but I have to wait until Bear gets home.


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[info]raven_
2009-06-12 04:03 am UTC (link)
... I have the opposite. Chronic illness = completely crap immune system. Partly because I take immuno suppressants.

Feh. You name it, I catch it. I've been on two planes, so natch, I have ze sniffles. Not bacon flu, just a cold, but still means I feel like crap.

*sends hugs, tissues, mock chicken soup, and eye candy*

xo

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[info]longi
2009-06-12 05:06 am UTC (link)
Same with me. Missing spleen = completely crap immune system.

I've spent a couple of hundred dollars on immunisations since christmas.

Best thing for colds is garlic and lots of it. :)

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[info]kitling
2009-06-12 05:44 am UTC (link)
I'm on pretty much the same immuno suppressants as you I'm guessing, but obviously mine are less effective.


*hugs back*

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[info]umbra_mentis
2009-06-12 04:04 am UTC (link)
See, chicken soup I can do - I've got a freezer with plenty of leftover stock just begging to be used up. Sadly, work doesn't seem to think that me wanting to make soup is a good enough reason to leave early :(

*hugs* and *hugs* and more *hugs*

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[info]kitling
2009-06-12 05:40 am UTC (link)
The real problem I'm having it trying to come up with a vegetarian equivalent, its actually harder than you'd think.


Do mee goreng two minute noodles with lots of garlic, soy and chilli count?

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[info]umbra_mentis
2009-06-12 05:43 am UTC (link)
How about miso?

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[info]yasutani
2009-06-12 12:19 pm UTC (link)
mmm miso....

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[info]longi
2009-06-12 01:58 pm UTC (link)
if you're feeling lazy. Nong Shim(TM) korean hot and spicy noodles are a good vego sinus clearer.

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[info]aeduna
2009-06-12 04:17 am UTC (link)
I'm only back in today ... been out all week, so you've got my sympathy.

(came in mostly to do email stuff... ironically its deeeead)

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[info]kitling
2009-06-12 05:45 am UTC (link)
I've got a shitload of work to do, I've gotten as far as making a list of the work I need to do and putting the books near my couch. Study by osmosis works right?

you didn't even go to the con? :)

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[info]aeduna
2009-06-12 05:47 am UTC (link)
Try eating the books? :)

No! I know. But folks that have just moved to Canberra that I encouraged to go did go along, so I count that as a win. I did go to Golgotha, which I think might have been the nail in the coffin.

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[info]txxxpxx
2009-06-12 04:30 am UTC (link)
Lemon juice, honey & hot water - with a nip of brandy. The more the better (the honey & lemon drink - not so much the brandy). Stay hydrated.

Heat & lots of it. Get more heaters & more doonas.

And aloe vera tissues....aloe vera ones hear, not yucky scratchie ones or eucalyptus ones, aloe vera ones. You will not regret it.

*hugs*

Get better soon

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[info]kitling
2009-06-12 05:41 am UTC (link)
I'm set for the lemon, honey and brandy, along with aloe & eucalyptus tissues, apparently they make them together now.

I made bear go shopping last night :)

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[info]jetspeaks
2009-06-12 04:39 am UTC (link)
Ack, suckage!

Chronic pain and respiratory illness require a totally different set of coping mechanisms, I think. I wouldn't feel too bad about being weak. :)

Hope you get well soon! *virtual chicken soup*

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[info]kitling
2009-06-12 05:42 am UTC (link)
I haz drugs that work for chronic pain, lying on the couch feeling crap and with no lunch is the bit that sucks. But yes, two very different coping medecines

thanks for virtual soup, I send you internet cookies

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[info]jetspeaks
2009-06-12 06:13 am UTC (link)
*allows cookies* :D

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[info]mr_e_cat
2009-06-12 04:41 am UTC (link)
*hugs* and lots of 'em

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[info]kitling
2009-06-12 05:45 am UTC (link)
much appreciated

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[info]irishmark
2009-06-12 04:54 am UTC (link)
It be the post-con lurgy I tells you. I'm taking today off work cause of it.

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[info]kitling
2009-06-12 05:43 am UTC (link)
Gail has bacon fever so I am blaming her, but yes, post con lurgy is more likely an explanation.

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[info]mrs_e_cat
2009-06-12 05:32 am UTC (link)
*hugs*
Hope you get better quickly hon.

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[info]kitling
2009-06-12 05:43 am UTC (link)
thank you :)

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[info]xgwishx
2009-06-12 06:32 am UTC (link)
VITAMIN D and ZINC = super important for immune system.
You could make rock soup. :)

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[info]teknohippi
2009-06-13 02:47 am UTC (link)
I would head over bearing gifts but I too have come down with a cold thing. Bleauh

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[info]kitling
2009-06-14 02:04 am UTC (link)
You should tell Adam to come over and pick up all his (and yours) stuff. We have made candied fruit covered in chocolate for incentive.

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