Lurgy club

[tenlegspider]

I am now recovering from the lurgy, I don't remember the last time I was that ill. I get colds too often, but only tiny minor annoyance ones. This one was two full days of eww, one day of aww, and now I'm back to my usual level of ill

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[surprisepizza]

Yeah, I'm still lurgified. I was in work on Monday, and probably shouldn't have been, really (I needed to leave the flat anyway, because I had a couple of things to post, and no food or medicine in, so I thought I'd see how it went), but have been off since.

For me it's been a horrible dry cough that gives me a sore throat, runny nose, sneezing (seems to have died off now), hot and cold "flushes", bouts of light-headedness and dizziness, and an occasional spot of nausea. Oh, and a bit of a headache. So pretty much a bit of everything in there.

I'll probably go in tomorrow, as three days is the most we can be off without a doctor's note, and who can be arsed with that for a cold?

[xxxlibris]

Meeee! And I am calling it 'flu' (or at least a variant of manflu) because this is the illest I've been in *years* - headaches, shivers, aches, sweats, blocked nose, coughing, but I think it was the hallucinating in bed and nearly fainting yesterday that cranked it up from yer standard cold.

Best thing to come out of it (apart from the excuse to stay in bed and watch 'The L Word') was discovery of hot toddy supremo: cloudy apple juice heated up with some nutmeg, cinnamon, lemon juice, honey (for the non-vegans) and a splash of rum. Delicious healthy-givingness inna cup.

[mybadhairlife]

I was forced to Google the lurgy, because I kept seeing it and constantly related it to allergies (because I am an allergic wheezer from way back.)

I had no idea the etymology was so delightful!

This is why Canadians stick to the Queen's English!