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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[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! :-) )