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"It's my turn to die ..."

Yes: I'm ill. I'm dying. Or at least it feels like I am.

I like to pride myself on my immune system: I never take tablets of any kind - Anadin, paracetamol, Neurofen etc. - and I make sure I get regular intakes of various vitamins and I drink one of those Actimal/Yakult/Müller pro-biotic things each day. It works for me and keeps colds and things at bay. Or so I thought.

On Tuesday - due to a bad series of events including a blazing row with the ex-missus/carer, my mum being in a decidedly annoying mood and my auntie's computer being a complete beech - I hardly had anything to eat (a pasty and a BoostTM) or drink (a single cup of coffee). By the end of the day I was feeling low, tired and depressed.

So, when I woke on Wednesday morning I discovered I had the mother-of-all sore throats - usually the first sign on any oncoming illness - so I spend most of the day making up for what I didn't do the day before: drinking plenty and eating healthily. But ... it was too late.

The sore throat got worse and, because I couldn't partake of my usual pain relief methods (!), all my aches and pains were amplified - my back ached, my arms ached and my legs ached. If Death had knocked on my front door I'd have let him in, sat him down, made him a drink and then let him have his way.

I felt marginally better this morning, but by midday it was painfully clear that it was just a lull in the onslaught - later this afternoon saw me having a headache of all things (a rare occurence).

I have discovered that one of the best ways to soothe a sore throat is freezing cold water; unfortunately, combined with the overdose of vitamin C, this has the knock-on of causing more trips to the toilet than usual, and therefore more physical effort and more aches.

Still, it could be worse. Actually, no: it couldn't.

Bleurgh.

* big massive, feeling sorry for myself, sigh *

You lucky person you. I could do with being ill so I'd get to have a week off work. I could do with one at the moment. Bliss.

Oh well, you have my sympathy though in reality you should never give this to a bloke - it honestly just makes them worse or at least that's what they'd have you think.

*plucks hairs from right armpit*

HEURGH!!!!!

Oooof!

*Twists left nipple*


Nyah ha!

*slaps right-hand side of head*

Mystique she say get over it Timmargh you big heffa of a girl.

Thanks, Saggy - I am, slowly.

The sagacious one he say get better soon Timmmargh-san.

i never really believed it before but if you do loads of exercise you immune system getds much better like i took a 2 week course of tennis 9.30- 5pm mon-fri and by the end i felt much better and i wasnt ill for a few weeks did i mention i was ill at the beginning? well after a few weeks it came back. i dunno if im making any sense but oh well.

I've had it pretty bad as well. Recently I took an school RS exam,and developed a massive headache halfway through: Naturally, I carried on and it was nearly worth it, seeing as I got 33/40.

However, during my next lesson, Spanish, I started to feel really cold, and after a half hour walk home I was freezing and it felt like someone had put magic expanding foam in cranium. Next came joint pain, manic puking and a Sahara-type temperature. It did have a good side, though: Taking the next day off to recuperate meant avoiding internal IT and English exams.

Blue Eagle wrote:
> Well, i have never been ill, with a virus or flu or anything. The last
> time i was in hospital, was visiting a relative i think. It's like
> the film 'Unbreakable', hmmm i wonder who my 'Mr Glass' is.....

Right now, I wish I was you