No I ain’t dead, I just wish I was.
Holy crap.
Whatever flavor of Flu this is going around, it’s a potent sonofabitch.
Splitting headache that won’t go away, this is day 4 of that.
Chest cold symptoms, oh yeah, BAD chest cold.
The wife has it worse, she coughs so hard she throws up and also has the Hershey Squirts.
For me, it’s the body aches, this far and away the worst case of aches I have ever had and most of it is my upper legs for some reason.
So far my strategy has been gargle deep with Lysterine, drink water and sleep.
I have been up almost an hour now, it’s 12:40 on Thursday afternoon.
I have basically been in bed asleep since Tuesday night.
The only thing I would get up for was to take a leak and drink some water.
No food, cigarettes, coffee or Monster Energy Drinks.
Water and sleep only.
I finally woke up about 11:30 today and checked on the wife. Then I nuked something out of the freezer and scarfed it like a starving dog.
I feel better than I did but I’m here to tell ya that there are only a few people on this entire planet that I would wish this experience on.
I talked to my buddy at work too. Most outfits have a Two Day Rule for being sick. If you call in for more than two days in a row they want a doctors note before you come back to work.
Really?
If I’m sick enough to not come to work then I definitely don’t want the pleasure of sitting in a doctors office all afternoon so that he can go, ‘Yep, You Have The Flu”
Take a couple aspirin, drink lots of fluid and get plenty of rest.
JUST LIKE WHAT I WAS DOING BEFORE I HAD TO COME HERE, D’OH!
So I told him I would try to be there in the morning and he can tell me to come home if it doesn’t look like I am going to make it all day.
I thank you all for your concern and well wishes.
Now if you will excuse me, I’m going back to bed.
Damn.
Whew! You sound like you’ve been pulled the wrong way through a one-way knothole!!
Get better, I implore you – we don’t want CederQ in charge!!
Even John-O would be better, methinks!!
Johno wouldn’t be able to edit your comments Igor… you are stuck with me. The boss won’t fire me and I tried, several times!
((Thanks for fixing the HTML screwup))
Now see, would Johno be able and/or willing to do that fer ya?
He CAN be trained…
Yep, same here. Took a WEEK to get feeling somewhat normal. Like you, these Body aches were the worst here as well.
Hope you get better soon.
See if your Dr uses Telemedicine. A smartphone Doctors visit and your able to really get better before you drop the plague to your workplace.
Take zinc, vitamin d, vitamin c and stay hydrated…we all get sick and then we have the antibodies; take no vaccines ever! But you already know that!
Hope you make it to work, and the boss takes one look at you and sends you home. That’ll re-start the clock.
The last time I had flu, about 15 years ago, I toughed it out to the weekend and went home, took a double-shot of Nyquil and went to bed. When I woke up I peed, ate something, took another double, and went back to bed. Continued that the rest of the weekend. By Monday morning I felt human again.
That’s my usual MO.
No worries about the ciggies!
Get someone to run and get you some (generic, same EXACT factory as the name brand, in Holland), nicotine gum. At Walliemart.
Buy the 4mg. Cut each piece in half. Chew with one stick of sugarless gum (so you don’t swallow the smaller piece of gum).
Relax
Take a breath
The world will continue to disintegrate without you! Yeah, unfortunately it will.
Or put snuff in your socks. Friend had to go to the Flight Line to fix a fuel cell. No Smoking once you crossed the road. The flight mechanics would put snuff between their toes to get their nicotine fix. The friend used snuff that comes in the little pouches.
So instead of getting lip or cheek cancer they get big toe cancer… lovely.
I’m damned sorry you’re sick. I wish there was something I could do. I’ve already tried cursing the sisters of fate. They don’t listen.
your body is pissed off because of no caffiene or nicotine.
That’s what I think. Maybe Phil, this could be your own personal great reset! New and improved! Bigger eff you s all around! It will be great. Good luck with your recovery. Wifely unit too. Does she know you told the entire blog she had a bad case of diarrhea? I will pray for her.
Yeah, now that I am two days in to this with no smokes I figure I might as well give it a shot.
Of course she has no idea I just told the entire world her bowels are loose.
It is out of worry and concern that I even mention it at all.
Just went through lung surgery and it’s the decades of smoking that did most of the damage. Fucking painful, I’m a month from the deed and it still hurts like hell.
If you can quit, you’ll be better off within days. Do it.
Supposedly, you can make or break any habit in three weeks.
Spousal unit had been harassing me to quit since we walked back up the aisle. Eighteen years later, I quit. Two years after that, she divorced my ass.
Not saying there’s a connection. but…
Just get better, both a ya.
And anyone else not feeling well.
Except Cederq.
He stole a pork chop from his dog…
I think Killer would gnaw off his ankle if he did that.
Sending Well Wishes and a strong Hot Totty to You and the Wife Phil. Get Well Soon Brother! 🍻👍
Hoping you and your wifely unit get well soon!
*mentally sends one of those memes of roadkill with a get well balloon, plus some flowers*
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Regarding the Two Day Rule – I generally get up and go to work on the third day, sicker than fuck, and get sent home. It resets the clock.
For anyone thinking of quitting. I quit in 2005 after 42 years. Used the Nicoderm patch stage 1 for 4 weeks, stage 2 for 3 weeks. Easiest thing I’ve ever done and never looked back.
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