In Which She Moans A Lot

So this cold that I thought I was over? Feels suspiciously like the flu. I’m croaking from coughing so much, it hurts to breathe, I have a perpetual headache, all my bones hurt, and I need to lie down a lot. I suspect that I won’t be going to orchestra yet again, which is frustrating because I missed it last week due to the beginnings of this, and then got somewhat better before being utterly wiped out by it today. I’m worse tonight than I was last week, and I’m annoyed about it because one of the reasons I stayed home from the last rehearsal was to avoid getting sicker. At the moment I’m considering attending for the first half of the rehearsal, if nothing else.

We had such excitement here last night: There was a wee fire in the kitchen! The base of one of our pots cracked on the element and whatever they put between the layers of metal caught fire. No damage to anything other than the pot itself. Nice to know that we’re calm in emergencies.

The freelance cheques got mailed today, so they should be here next Monday. I’ve just finished the first draft of the current project, and I’ll polish it tomorrow. Dinner’s in the slow-cooker, so all someone will have to do later is make rice. Now I’m going to go lie down under the afghan in the living room with some more Neo-Citran, and probably read some E.M. Forster and listen to some Philip Glass, because that’s what I need right now.

2 thoughts on “In Which She Moans A Lot”

  1. Paze

    I hear tell that viral pneumonia’s going around . . .

    Seriously, don’t wait too long before going to the doctor. If you can take pills to feel better, then you want to be taking those pills as soon as possible, right?

    (And on a cold, damp day like this, might I suggest that A Room With a View might really hit the spot?)

    Be better soon!
    xox

  2. Autumn Post author

    Heh. Could be, but I suspect it’s whatever Liam had, just compounded with the cold I had before he did. My problem is that it’s so hard to separate symptoms from how the fibro makes me feel when I get ill. When I get sick I always feel tired and achy, for example. (I feel tired and achy even when I’m not sick.) Although this is… different. It’s a bone-ache instead of a general muscle ache.

    I’ve been taking Tylenol Cough & Cold, Dimetapp, plain Tylenol, and Neo-Citran in appropriate combinations according to what feels worst at any given moment. I am not eschewing modern medicine, trust me.

    Howards End, actually. :)

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