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[lagilman]

This post is mostly to remind you that you still have One. More. Day in which to enter the last contest of April and win a signed copy of BLOOD FROM STONE!


I went outside today for the first time since...Saturday? Was like the first day in a foreign country.

Treated myself to some fresh pastry for lunch, which I probably will regret, and then came home before I started to cough and somebody called the CDC*. Then I took a nap. How can I be getting better and still so worn out? Now there will be more page proofs, and some work on the manuscript draft, and whatever else I have the energy to do.

I am so very ready to be healthy again, please thank you.

Anyone else sick? What stage are you in?




[*however, it has been pronounced that I have boring old every-spring flu, not anything exotic. Alas, I am NotAStatistic]

Comments

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon.

If I don't get something from the Clarke awards last night (average breathing range: 6 inches), I will be amazed. Have a severe, non-alcohol related headache and a temperature, treated with ibuprofen, cake and red wine (I know). We will see in due course.

[lagilman]

Yeah -- I have a writer-type gathering tomorrow I've been looking forward to, but now am hesitant -- I'm no longer contagious, but if someone there has a slightly different bug than I did... my defenses are seriously tired and may not be able to put up a fair fight.

*grumps*

[deza.livejournal.com]

I'm chronically ill, but somehow I don't think that's what you meant. ;)

I hope you're feeling better soon, and that no one decides to grab you off the street and throw you in an asylum for porcinely diseased.

[ilvack.livejournal.com]

Sick as a dog down on the farm. I had the inklings that I was getting sick yesterday,but have now graduated to the "Hit 'im hard, leave his stomach empty, and watch him squirm in exhaustion" stage.

[lagilman]

sleep, sleep, and more sleep as possible, interspersed with cold meds when you have to be awake. It's the only way to survive.

(that, and chicken soup)

[misofuhni.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a tad better than when you saw me last; I'm past the dribbly nose, what,-you-mean-my-sinuses-are-not-on-the-outside-of-my-skull phase. Now I just have that niggling cough and wish I had a 'script for Albuterol handy. Spouse, on the other hand, is feeling like crap--nausea and chilled. I'm shipping him over for meds the minute he starts a fever.

Pastry for lunch sounds divinely luxurious. Was their cheese involved? Better than my lunch. Don't worry about the napping. That's when your body is doing the actual work of healing.

[misofuhni.livejournal.com]

NOTE TO SELF: Never have a conversation and type at the same time. D'oh!

[lagilman]

Actual cheese? Only if sweet ricotta counts....

And yeah, I know (re: the napping). Am counting it medical, not indulgence. But I'd like to get more done each day that making Pandora the nap-kitten happy.

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

I am not currently sick, though I am getting on 6 planes over the next 2 weeks (4 of them between now and Sunday) so I assume I'm doomed. I'm washing my hands like Monk, drinking borderline-toxic amounts of Emergen-C, and hoping for the best.

[lagilman]

much as I hate to say it (as I think those things generally just feed panic) a breath mask might be useful while you're on the plane(s)....

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my employer actually asked me to try to find some today. No luck so far, though -- can't tell if they're sold out, or if the local places just haven't started stocking them yet. This ain't Japan. :} I'll check the Duane Reade by our office before I head for the airport tonight.

[ebonypearl.livejournal.com]

Anyone else sick? What stage are you in?

Curse me, but I never get sick. I have had a few brushes with injuries, and weird allergies and sensitivities, but I've never had a cold or flu and will probably be one of Those People who are among the 75% or so who don't get the flu.

But I sympathize with those who do get ill and wish I could share my exceedingly good health with them.