Eww 2.0

Blogged on Monday, December 31st, 2007 by Rachael. Filed in Emo, Health, Holidays, Randomness.

So this happens to me every time, you know?  I get sick first (usually), then others fall to the same plague.  I take care of them, because that’s my job - getting glasses of water with straws, and putting sheets and clothing and towels in the washing machine at 2am, and wiping faces with a damp cloth.

And then I get sick… AGAIN.

I managed to drop Ian off with his dad like our schedule dictates, but I was never so thankful for my bed when I got back.  The only reason I am sitting at my desk right now is that it is in my room, thus not far from my bed.  Oh, and because I have been sleeping on and off all day, and the sleeping is making it worse now.

Don’t you hate that, when sleeping actually makes you feel WORSE?  And you can’t always just stop sleeping when you cross over from healing, peaceful sleep into headachy, restless dozing.  You don’t know until you wake up that it already happened, and then you have to decide whether or not it’s a good idea to take something for your headache when your stomach isn’t really sure about its role in life anymore.  Is it a handy pail for keeping things in and dumping out right away, or is it a storage closet?  Is it the halfway place between eating yummy food and getting all the yummy food’s energy, or is it an angry demon-infested variation on the ninth circle of hell?

(Actually, if my insides were rimmed in ice and inhabited by an upside-down frozen Satan, I think they would feel far better than they do, so I guess the ninth circle was further in than what I’m experiencing.  I’m thinking maybe it’s Limbo right now.)

I have nowhere to go from here, except to wish you all a flu-free New Year, and please be careful who you kiss at midnight, THEY might have the plague.

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