In "I am never going to sneer at you for feeling ill" news

[kaberett]

Colds. I hate them. I hate my head being full of snot. I hate my balance vanishing. I hate not being able to hear, and the pressure that goes with it. I hate needing to sleep so much more than my baseline.

I hate colds much, much more than I hate any other aspect of my illnesses.

I'm never interested in playing the Who's More Ill game, or the I'm Iller Than You So Count Your Blessings game, and this is some of why: colds are fucking miserable.

For the purposes of this post I'm pretending that the anxiety creature is throwing a tantrum about sneezing.

Comments

[ghoti]

colds *are* miserable.

*sends you not!chicken-noodle-soup*

[kaberett]

parev chicken stock is my favourite thing ever, okay. alas my local supermarkets have stopped carrying it ;_______;

[ghoti]

that is most horribly unfortunate.

[kaberett]

like maybe if I pestered the university JSoc they'd have some/know where to get it? but last time I checked they didn't hold truck with that kind of nonsense.

[ghoti]

hrm. or someone local who keeps kosher? or other veg*ns?

[kaberett]

actually I should probably check the Sikh-run convenience store in a local not-exactly-village (it's kind of been agglomerated by the city) which tends to be the best place in town for kosher/hakshered stuff. hmmmmm.

[ghoti]

now that is an unconventional but brilliant place to check!

[pipisafoat]

YES THIS SO MUCH ALWAYS. (plus it takes me months to recover in the throat, which throws my singing all out of balance, and even though i purposefully don't sing in any way that could possibly be considering even pretending to be professional, it still makes me very very sad. because one of my "i am too depressed to move" things is to play music & make up a harmony to go with it (uh, some are more successful than others, yes) and i cannot do that right now and it just.) (i have been "well" for a month now and still can't reliably speak in my normal range. singing is right out.) (hello surprise complaints! sorry about that.)

my actual least favorite thing about the cold itself is trying to sleep with a head full of snot. I know I need more sleep! but I can't get comfortable without sneezing or feeling like I'm about to choke on my own ick or being upright, which is not conducive to sleep for me. and then when I do fall asleep, it is Most Irritating to wake oneself up with a sneeze. (add that to my body's innate difficulties in handling less than 8-hour nights every single night of every single week, and you have a recipe for colds lasting twice as long as they really maybe ought to. I actually recovered from the flu faster than I do a normal cold, simply because they gave me sleep-drugs.)

(also i don't like chicken soup (partly because i don't like chicken? i haven't liked the soup longer than i haven't liked the meat) and i have no idea how that became the default sick-food of ... this country? the world?)

chicken soup

[untonuggan]

not the default sick food of the world - in the middle east, or at least parts of it, the default sick food is spices and lamb and rice and a special kind of squash marketed in the US as "cousa" which is how you say "squash" in Arabic. My partner makes the dish for me when I am sick, whether I want it or not, and makes me eat it. Also the default "upset stomach food" is rice and yogurt, which makes sense when you think about it I suppose. That one I refuse to eat, though, bc dairy, but I probably will try it next time. I dunno though.

[beckyc]

GWS! Colds are grim. Hope you don't need to go to hospital with it x.

[untonuggan]

yes. cold suck. especially when people with relatively working immune systems spread them to others who then are stuck with them for MONTHS instead of just taking a goddamn sick day. *gnashes teeth* honestly, when I worked at a university I would get month-long cold things that were just the worst thing ever. and then I would go back to work and someone else would be there with their Kleenex and it would start all over again.

sorry, this was your rant space. <3 I hope you feel loads better soon!

[rysmiel]

You have my sympathies. I tend to get the damned things as "a couple of weeks of low-grade grotty" rather than "a couple of days of horrible" most of the time this last few years, but I have no strong feelings on which is worse, they;re both rotten.