wherein Liz gripes about colds
Feb. 6th, 2019 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingOne minor annoyance about winter (and tax season) is that it takes forever and a day to recover from any colds I happen to catch.
...Okay, context. Basically I don't get sick, except for upper respiratory infections. Those hit me like a ton of bricks, to the point where literally every single symptom that's supposed to distinguish influenza from ordinary colds is something I get as a cold symptom. Fever, chills, bone aches, muscle aches -- you name it, I get it. Basically it's like being crushed flat by a road paver for two to five days, and then a week of slow recovery. And that's a best-case scenario.
In winter, the weather conspires against me. And in tax season, I'm working at least 50 hours a week, and either 6 or 7 days a week, so my ability to catch extra sleep is, shall we say, impaired. Also my background stress level goes up. So if I get sick, it lingers indefinitely.
Which is a long and largely unnecessary lead-in to my complaint that I have now had to postpone my blood donation appointment twice because of this stupid cold that refuses to definitively go away. ARGH.
Well, I rescheduled for 2pm in a couple weeks, at the mall just next to my Not the IRS office on a day where I've been issued a decreed-from-above lunch break. Hopefully I will not have caught a new cold by then!
...Okay, context. Basically I don't get sick, except for upper respiratory infections. Those hit me like a ton of bricks, to the point where literally every single symptom that's supposed to distinguish influenza from ordinary colds is something I get as a cold symptom. Fever, chills, bone aches, muscle aches -- you name it, I get it. Basically it's like being crushed flat by a road paver for two to five days, and then a week of slow recovery. And that's a best-case scenario.
In winter, the weather conspires against me. And in tax season, I'm working at least 50 hours a week, and either 6 or 7 days a week, so my ability to catch extra sleep is, shall we say, impaired. Also my background stress level goes up. So if I get sick, it lingers indefinitely.
Which is a long and largely unnecessary lead-in to my complaint that I have now had to postpone my blood donation appointment twice because of this stupid cold that refuses to definitively go away. ARGH.
Well, I rescheduled for 2pm in a couple weeks, at the mall just next to my Not the IRS office on a day where I've been issued a decreed-from-above lunch break. Hopefully I will not have caught a new cold by then!
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Date: 2019-02-07 04:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-02-07 05:20 pm (UTC)I had bronchitis once in my childhood and it was horrid. I wish you luck avoiding it this winter!
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Date: 2019-02-07 10:46 pm (UTC)And thank you for the luck! I am hopeful that I can avoid the bronchitis this season, too - sinus infections are annoying, but not terrible; bronchitis is terrible.
I hope you keep feeling better! I will be thinking good thoughts for you.