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

[hiraku536.livejournal.com]

EEEK

I'm guessing Arizona is also heating up now. Would that make the situation better or worse? (I do worse at hot weathers...)

FEEEEELLL BETTER!!!

[skuldchan.livejournal.com]

Please, for the love of god, DO NOT go to lab tomorrow if you're anywhere close to the state you're in now.

Contaminating your lab colleagues does not make for a happy lab environment. I know you're a student and all with a work ethic but QUARANTINE yourself! :D

And hey, sick days are supposed to be fun days? Right? Right? Right?

I hope you get some sleep eventually, babe! *hugs* Get well soon.

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

That sounds gross and horrible, so I hope you feel better soon. However, I agree with that other chick or dude! Keep your germs AT HOME. Or in the dorm. Or whatever, just don't spread them all around your place of work/learning.
So, yeah, all the conventional wisdom: stay in bed or on the couch, keep warm, drink lots of juice or water, try not to despair.

[kitschaster.livejournal.com]

Man. If I had whatever you had, I'd just have to get shitfaced drunk on whiskey and nyquil, and sleep for about three days. Yeah, you'll have a hangover, but you'll be able to breath again!

But no, really. Yikes! Please get better soon.

[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.