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09 January 2006

I'm dying The fever is now low grade but I can't breath through my nose which makes it impossible to swallow (no bad jokes) because my throat is dry and feels like sandpaper. Mr. Mucus has moved into my lungs and now I am lying in bed with Vicks and a humidifier. I am pathetic.
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But after this and the pain from my cough...I'm done with the smoking. This is only the flu and my cough brings tears to my eyes. Can you imagine if it was something worse? I want to die. I guess I should have gotten that flu shot.

post by: Lola_G at: 11:54 | 26 comments

Mr. Mucus

Married to Mrs. Phlegm, right?

posted by jonmc 09 January | 11:56

Yeah...you know those boogers from the Mucinex commercial. I'm on a steady dose of Robitussin but unlike the last time I had the flu (about seven years ago) I am being careful not to OD on the over the counters.

posted by Lola_G 09 January | 11:57

Yo that's what I had. I'm at work now (four days later) and the light makes my eyes feel funny. My throat felt more like a rubber donut was lodged in it (what fiend would make a rubber donut? Who, dammit?), but I felt your pain, baby, and it's no damn good. Liquify and expectorate, and feel better.

posted by Hugh Janus 09 January | 11:58

Is it at least the good cough syrup with the codeine in it? I've ridden some great codeiene buzzes in my day..

*nods out in puddle of own drool*
*takes dry dive from hotel room, hangs self from cell in the Tombs*

posted by jonmc 09 January | 11:59

Thanks, HJ. I can't sleep for more than four hours because I wake up in a coughing fit. And now I am lonely and bored. Who wants to use up all their sick days in January. Bastards!!!

posted by Lola_G 09 January | 12:00

I don't have a doctor in NY yet but I've had that cough medicine before and I dreaming of it.

posted by Lola_G 09 January | 12:01

Oh yeah, Hugh?

This is for you, brotherman:

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - I Don't want To Go Home. Dig it.

posted by jonmc 09 January | 12:02

HA! I totally forgot to look when I was in MD. Glad you found it. I'll come back to this thread and listen when I'm at a computer from which I can listen. Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!

posted by Hugh Janus 09 January | 12:04

Sorry about the ick, Lola. In an act of true compassion, I am NOT gonna offer to spread the vick's all over your chest.

Nice, jon.

posted by danostuporstar 09 January | 12:04

Yay! Another one for the Quitter's Club!!! *cheers, but not half as fetchingly as TPS would*

posted by TrishaLynn 09 January | 12:06

A opiate stupor is the best way to endure any illness, America is a cruel and thoughtless place.

Lola if you had what I had and what my lady had and what every motherfucker had, it's a creeper. You get sick, you get better then throat attack and you get sick again, it's gnarly. I suggest Myers Rum, lemon, honey, hot water and fevered sleep.

posted by Divine_Wino 09 January | 12:09

Yeah, gnarly is exactly what it is.

posted by Lola_G 09 January | 12:18

I am scared. I do not want this, yet every day another person falls. Did you all have the evil virus last winter? Maybe this one is too close and I am protected.

*pats Lola's head*

posted by dame 09 January | 12:23

I haven't had anything like this in years. All winter I was amazed by how good I have been feeling. Until last week, not even a sniffle.

posted by Lola_G 09 January | 12:25

I can't help you with the other stuff, since it's been a while since I've had a really bad case of the flu, but as far as throat hurting goes, have you tried that sore-throat spray? It's nasty, but it does a good job of numbing the pain, espcially if it feels a bit raw because you're forced to breath though your mouth.

Other than that, get well soon!

posted by kosher_jenny 09 January | 12:33

Lola, last year I had something really similar. And the way it kept coming back was the same.

*crosses fingers, washes hands*

posted by dame 09 January | 12:36

Sometimes when it's real bad I go out to the forge, heat up a length of iron just past red, and shove it down my throat. Sears the bejeezus out of the streptococcus!

posted by Hugh Janus 09 January | 12:37

of course it also ruined you're budding career as a crooner.

posted by jonmc 09 January | 12:37

And makes me unusually popular in Chelsea.

posted by Hugh Janus 09 January | 12:47

And if worse comes to worse, there will always be a job for you in the circus.

posted by kosher_jenny 09 January | 12:51

Ring O Noodle soup. The Lipton dry kind in a box. It is my default sickness food. Feel better soon, Lola.

posted by jrossi4r 09 January | 12:55

Oooh poor Lola! Do you have a productive cough or a dry cough? I hate it when your throat is super dry and you can feel the mucus right at the back, where your nose and throat meet, and it just sits there and irritates you, but you can't cough it up and you can't swallow it.

Not that that helps, but I empathise. Hope you feel better soon.

posted by gaspode 09 January | 13:39

I'm sitting here at work hacking up a lung or two. : ( I don't think I'm feverish or anything but the throat is really bugging me.

I've also gotten a bottle of L-Lysine in hopes of staving off cold sores. I'm very prone to them (especially at this time of the month - I know, TMI) and I've got a convention in a couple weeks...I usually get them when I have something big about to happen! Let's hope that helps.

posted by sisterhavana 09 January | 13:52

Lola_G, spicy chicken soup (tom yum gai, etc) does a super job of soothing, expectorating and decongesting. Plus, it's tasty and if you make it spicy enough you actually will be able to taste it.

Hope you feel better, soon!

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 January | 14:15

Bummer Lola I feel your pain. I say follow Hugheys advice to liquify and expectorate - and Mucinex does the trick, get some soon. Best wishes girl.

posted by chewatadistance 09 January | 14:53

That is exactly what I had last week. I'm still a little under the weather; this is a week long kind of thing. I got antibiotics on Friday; until then it was steadily downhill. The doctor also told me to take Musinex or whatever it's spelled, and it *did* help.

And for the record, I *had* my flu shot.

posted by Doohickie 09 January | 16:18

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