Nov162009
Stop. No really, stop.
Filed under health by Kim at 6:34 pm on Nov 16 2009
This is what my body ended up saying to me yesterday. I tried to go for a walk in the fresh air, which was lovely. I tried to keep moving a bit, put some laundry away, so my muscles would not completely lose any strength they ever had. I was doing great, albeit coughing.
Then the chills hit. By the time sunset came around, I was uncomfortable everywhere. The couch sucked. The bed felt bad. The chairs all made me ache in my back. I finally reached some kind of peace by setting myself up in the bungee chair* with two blankets, an ice pack on my neck, a pillow, my iPod playing Pontoon, and a makeshift ottoman stuck in place with an exercise band. (The disadvantages of hardwood floors, your makeshift ottomans tend to slide around.) I had Jack take a picture for posterity, because I thought it was funny, but I’m not posting it.
By the time I went to bed I was actively shaking and couldn’t get warm so I made Jack into a human heating element, which worked out well. Even Nicolas, the most mean cat in our house, did something he *never* does and crawled under the covers and lay next to me, without drawing blood. Usually if he somehow gets curious and climbs under there any motion makes him freak out and claw you. Then I slept for 12 hours. My body was saying STOP and I had to listen.
I did have fever dreams about how if I didn’t sleep enough on each side, I wouldn’t be insured for the cost of treatment, because that’s what I needed, to worry about something stupid and made up. Finally sometime in the middle of the morning I woke up and told myself “Please let everything go. You have to stop because all your energy has to go into resting and feeling better”. And then I had what might be the second best sleep of my life, next to the time I had jet lag and slept for 16 hours.
After measuring a temp of 101.2 this afternoon and feeling really, really dumb for a while because my brain was cooking, I slammed a second dose of NyQuil and now my temp is back down to normal. I’m going to the doctor tomorrow.
I promised to listen to all your songs on my commute, but since I’m not commuting and really not in a good mood, it might take me a little longer than that to hear them all, but I will get there! I so … weirdly… wish I could be commuting.
* I paid an ungodly sum of shipping for that chair to come to me from Minneapolis from a Craigslist ad. Based on last night alone, it was worth it. Can you guess why they discontinued this chair? It might as well be called the “Pet and Child Strangler”. Our cats seem to be really smart though and avoid it like the plague.
1 CSueon 16 Nov 2009 at 7:17 pm
DON’T MAKE ME GO OVER THERE AND CHICKEN SOUP YOU!
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Kim Reply:
November 16th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Is that a threat or an offer? Because this crap from a can would make me more sick, I think.
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2 phlee76on 16 Nov 2009 at 7:37 pm
Awe… you’re sick.
Sounds like the flu, my children just got over that icky icky flu. It sucks. I’m so sorry. I have to say though that I am glad you were at least able to enjoy going out yesterday and enjoying the nice weather. I wish you a speedy recovery and wow does that nyquil do wonders! 
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Kim Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Thank you!!
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3 Beckion 16 Nov 2009 at 8:15 pm
Holy cats. Take it easy.
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Kim Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Easy, taken. Barely moved from the couch today.
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4 Meganon 16 Nov 2009 at 9:59 pm
Ugh. Feel better soon. You’d better because you have about 60 zillion songs to listen to (at last count.)
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Kim Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I know, right? That went better than I expected. Or worse depending on how you look at it.
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5 Peteron 17 Nov 2009 at 7:55 am
No words of wisdom. The virus would outwit me anyway. The bugs have been persistent this fall. Hope you are feeling better today, much better.
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Kim Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Thanks! I think I am on the other side of this thing.
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6 Mariaon 17 Nov 2009 at 8:23 am
Aw shoot, I hope you recover quickly enough.
I wish someone had gotten a pic of me on day 3 of delirious on the couch when I had a flu earlier this year. I wouldn’t post it, either.
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Kim Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
But it’s so real! And brutal! Brutal, brutal flu.
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7 Jenon 17 Nov 2009 at 11:37 am
Glad your body finally got the message across and that your mind listened and let you sleep! Hope you feel lots better soon! Let me know if you need anything, remember I work like 10 minutes away from your house. =)
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Kim Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
I need socializing, but that’s exactly the kind of thing people don’t want to give me right now.
Soon enough I reckon!
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