Sniffle

[juliet]

Have *cold*, bah. So am not in work, after attempting to get up earlier this morning & then bursting into tears and falling over. Of course, I feel horribly guilty about this - Puritan work ethic nonsense. Checking email from home, anyway, in case of utter disasters which I can fix from here (well, technically 'here' is currently St P, but I shall head back to Bermondsey after I've slept for another little bit).

SULK. Do not like being ill.

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[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Have a *hug*.

[puffinry.livejournal.com]

Poor Juliet. Have a calm cozy day & recover soon! xx

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Just say no to the protestant work ethic and its contribution to the oppression of the proletariat!

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

hahaha what RickyT said! Also, i am still extremely snotty BUT gargling with some whiskey last night did my throat no end of good. It's probably best you're at home today anyhow, the tubestrike traffic is MAD.

Let yourself relax, have a kip, and gargle that whiskey (or whisky, whichever you prefer ;)) before bedtime!

[juliet]

Yeah - I wasn't really fancying cycling through that anyway, & certainly not when my balance is shot. Will have to cycle from here to Bermondsey later, mind, but at least I'm not in any kind of hurry & also it should have died down a bit!

Shall note the gargling of whisky recommendation - though I'm not sure that P is going to let me gargle with his lovely Laphroaig! Maybe ginger wine instead...

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Ginger wine sounds sensible.
I've also heard lemon juice and raw chopped garlic and ginger recommended as a gargle, I think... BICBW.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

But Laphroig would be GREAT for gargling - it's the rortiest whisky evah and will kill all those cold germs DEAD! I'm sure P would let you have just an ickle mouthful - i mean i assume you'll be swallowing it as well so it wouldn't be wasted or anything! :)

Good luck with the cycling, dude...

[juliet]

P says that I can have some as long as I promise to drink it afterwards :-) He also recommends kind of holding it at the back of the mouth & allowing it to sink in rather than necessarily gargling per se.

Got home in one very slow-moving piece, & have been asleep for last 4 hrs.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Jack Daniels and Lemsip with brown sugar. You know it makes sense.

[juliet]

I've stopped taking Proper Medicines for colds - I don't think it actually helps you *recover*, it just makes you feel less shit so that you can do stuff. And if you're ill, you didn't ought to be doing stuff, you ought to be in bed. Which is where I have been all day :-) Ginger wine, lemon juice, hot water, raw ginger, & a little cinnamon is good. If I still ate honey I'd put honey in it, too.

In particular, paracetamol etc might actually *stop* you recovering as it lowers your temperature; and a raised temperature can kill off the bugs.

[puffinry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read that there's some recent-ish research suggesting that people take slightly longer to recover if they take things like aspirin or paracetomol which reduce fever. Personally I'd rather take the aspirin and feel okay so I can do something more interesting than lying in bed: I guess that means I'm a workaholic or something.

I read a (tendentious but provocative) article recently which proposes that aspirin is actually a vitamin. Certainly whenever my myriad medical relatives get together, conversation will inevitably turn before long to the subject of what a wonderful drug it is.

(Gosh, I'm doing a lot of this posting at the moment. Stop me when it starts to get annoying.)

[juliet]

The thing is, I find that taking aspirin/paracetamol doesn't actually make you feel *okay*, it just makes you feel *functional*. You're still sniffly & generally not-good-feeling. I'd rather have a day feeling grotty and staying in bed mostly asleep, & then get properly better quicker, than lots of days feeling fairly shit but able to do stuff, in general.

Mind you, if I *really* believed in this I'd still be in bed today, as I'm still not really up to scratch, but I'm a lot better than I was yesterday, & I plan to take it reasonably easy...

(posting good! posting means entertaining things to keep me away from work! :-) )

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Ah well, yes, but at the moment being in bed simply isn't an option here, remarkably tempting though it is. Tell Pete happy birthday...

[morgan99.livejournal.com]

*Hug* Hope you feel better soon hon.

B x