Archive for June, 2005


25 or 6 to 4

Congestion at about 30%.. My nose is doing that stunning ballet where one nostril is absolutely clear and the other is hermetically sealed. It’s a ballet because at a moment’s notice, the one nostril will pick the other up for a lovely grande jete and then they will switch roles.

The body aches are also down to about 10 %. It could just be a good moment in my back cycle.

The downside is that despite NyQuil I am wide awake. Ahh, yes. The Nighttime sniffling, sneezing, why the f*$& am I staring at the bedroom ceiling medicine.

In other news, yes, LJ has gotten all tagified. Yay. I can post things now and label them in advance. Eventually, these tags will probably form a system of filtering for the reader. For now…. just more meta data.

Granted, I know this change has sent fraserspeirs off to see what hackery he can do to XJournal.

I have just lumbered back into the bed room.I’d say I am up from 20% to about 50%. That which has me still down is congestion that is slowly breaking up and some of the worst muscle aches I have ever had while sick.

Now, I’ve had sore muscles on occasion while ill, but this is entirely new. The small of my back is entirely on fire and locked up. It’s as if I’ve pulled a muscle entirely and sent it off to be abused somewhere.

shimmeringjemmy has been treating me like a prince this week. And I really need to comment about how incredible this is. We have movers arriving in 8 days. Not 2 weeks, not 10 days, but 8. The last 3 days have been an utter loss to me. Most of the time I have been immobile in bed. The spasm-ing in my back has left me grumpy and irritable. Right now I am typing during one of those pauses in pain where it’s only a throbbing annoyance in my back rather than an oil based fire.

Earlier I asked shimmeringjemmy if she could run for some more drugs and cough drops. I also suggested we need food. I really didn’t eat much yesterday at all. Well, until she cooked dinner. (And it was awesome)

She came back from the store, with drugs, cough drops, sandwich fixin’s and a cream soda that I really like. (No, chite not Dr. Brown’s 😉 She’s also been working on the house non-stop while I’ve been laid up. Again, it’s just entirely awesome.

Many times this week have I blessed my good fortune for having done enough good deeds to deserve having someone like her in my life. I love her very much. And I just felt like making it firmly known to any and all. 🙂

Der Kommissar80s Pop Culture Disc 4

Tossed and turned all night. Wearing a damp washcloth. Still have horrendous aches in the lower back and right leg. Woke up at 5:45 am, just short of 6 hrs after I’d taken my last shot of NyQuil. Coughing jars the body causing the aches to flare.

I want to think I’m turning the corner here, but much like weather patterns over Pittsburgh; it feels like the it’s centered over me and is rotating slowly before moving on.

Glarng

Sick, Day 2

I have aches in muscles that I didn’t even know I had.

I wish the meds were helping.

Pbbbbt.

In the (screened) comment area…. name as many bands as you can that you felt were:

  • ahead of their time
  • Really great
  • didn’t make it big with the masses at the time of their release

There, nice and convoluted. We’ll see if there are any responses and I’ll compile the choices in a day or so.