Awesome

[trenchkamen]

I have a bad cough, a high fever, congestion that you wouldn't believe, and I've been vomiting up all the mucous that is draining into my stomach from my sinuses. If I try to sleep sitting up, I get horribly nauseated from all the mucous in my stomach. If I sleep lying down, I can't breathe. So I can't sleep. My parents went ahead and gave me a Z-pack because there is an at least 110% chance I'll get a secondary bacterial infection anyway. Pseudoephedrine keeps me awake, NyQuil makes me sleepy, so I'm somewhere in-between.

Didn't go to school/lab today. Probably won't tomorrow unless I make a most dramatic turn-around. AND the lab went out to lunch for a birthday today, so of course today is one of the days I'm home sick. FML.

Remember Cougar Con? Remember that secret Cougar Message Board that was theorized? I think omegadonut found it. For the sake of context, Smogon is a message board for competitive Pokemon players. I think that's all that need be said.

I should lie down before I pass out.

Comments

[johnwwells.livejournal.com]

Recover, please! I don't mean that in the general sense of "don't die," but in the very specific sense of putting a priority on recovering and resting over labwork. I don't think you'd hold it against one of your labmates if they stayed out for illness, so you have no reason to feel guilty yourself. I know what it's like to apply that standard to yourself: "-I- should be working now." But take it easy on yourself; push too hard and neglect your health, and things go badly. I can testify to that.

I hope you didn't go in today, and suggest that, unless you're down to the slightest sniffle, you don't go in tomorrow either. At your age, of course, I would have disregarded this advice, but I would have been foolish to do so.

And Vicky will be pissed if you work yourself into an invalid before that acceptance letter comes.