Sick of being sick

[yarol_2075]

Wouldn't you know? I get a decent amount of time off, and I get sick as a dog. I've been fighting a cold since Christmas Eve, and frankly it's been curtailing a lot of stuff I would have liked to have done this week. Especially write...I can't write very well when my ears are feeling like someone's stuffed them with cotton and then cemented them shut. Things that have gotten the short-shrift? A bio I'm writing for an rpg. A long delayed History of Winter, with some accompanying theories and considering what's going on in the Wildstorm universe... And some fics I'd have liked to have written as gifts for friends (especially annoyed about this, since I'm not going to write something for someone if I didn't think it was the best I could offer them.)

All around I know I'm dealing with a persnickety piddling little thing, but everything is magnified when I'm ill. :-(

Comments

[ex-flexible.livejournal.com]

*BIGHUG*

Very sorry to read the cold is sticking around, sis.

Aside from the usual 'push liquids' and 'vitamin C' stuff, I've found the following are useful for clearing out my head:

*Any kind of throat lozenges with zinc. Zinc lozenges are practically magic.
*Mucinex, or the generic equivalent (Guiafensin). Take with lots of water and much gook will drain out and go away. Expensive, but worth it.
*The real Sudafed (stuff they put behind the counter now so people won't make speed out of it). The only decongestant that really works (aside from straight Tobasco sauce). Just don't take too much at once ;-)

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Hope you feel better soon!

*Love*

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
So evil cold got you too...
I hope I didn't pass it to you through our mind connection...
Mine's getting marginally better.
I hope yours will do the same too as soon as possible.
*tight breathtaking hug*

[sea-pony.livejournal.com]

{{hugs}}

I am sorry you are sick. :( I hope you get to feeling better soon!
Love you!

{{hugs}}