Ride of the Rohirrim: Immune System Edition

[lavendertook]

I've been down with a cold the past week--sore spotty throat, congestion, and tiredness, though I think it was incubating for at least a week beforehand. Then my immune system decided to launch a lightning strike on the micro-aggressors and lifted my temperature almost 5 degrees F--from 97.8 to 102.2--in a little more than the space of a half hour early last evening--thanks guys for the fun ride!

I had taken my temp before I ran a couple of errands, and then started feeling chills as I drove home, which became dizziness as I was parking and trying to get in my groceries. My temp went down over the course of the evening with some aspirin, and down to my usual sub-standard norm of 96.0 this afternoon--my body does not believe in burning more calories than it absolutely has to. I feel better today except for tiredness and my lungs trying to figure out what to do with all the phlegm that got dumped in them last evening. I'm hoping mucinex and vitamins will take care of that in the next couple of days. When I first went to bed with the fever last evening, Saki came up and held my hand between her paws and laid her head on top, and purred me to sleep, so I do have a good nurse watching over me.

So I've been sleeping a lot and am more behind on commenting than even usual and hope to get to them soon--please bear with me, dear flisties. I did make it to the TTT and RotK EE showings, and enjoyed them, though the last is a bit long when you're not feeling well. And meh, I'm missing some pretty days. But the nice part of being unemployed is I can stay home and sleep this off entirely, instead of having to trudge into work still down with it--never had enough leave time to do otherwise--so yay for that.

Comments

[spiralsheep]

::hugs and the useless but comforting imaginary beverage of your choice::

[delux_vivens]

hugs, bb.

[febobe.livejournal.com]

Poor Lavender! Feel better soon, sweetheart. May you sleep it off well and truly. Hang in there, and know I'm thinking good thoughts for you.

*gentle hugs*

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Poor dear!!! I'm so sorrY! <3

(By the way, I need to send you another check for $61 via my bank. It seems that when I sent you money for the ticket to ROTK for last year, you never cashed it and my bank canceled it after a time? Does this sound right? If I'm wrong, let me know!)

[ladysnaps.livejournal.com]

you sound miserable. poor took! but what a trooper you are for sitting through over 4 hours of ROTK.

may those nasty little bugger be rid of you soon. take care. ♥

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*fans you healingly*

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

oh, I'm so glad that the kitteh-nurse was present. You let her take good care of you, now, hear? Some nice chicken soup would't hurt, either.....

*runs off to chop carrots and celery, all the while clucking to the intended chicken-victim.....*

feel better soon!

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

It sounds as though you've been having an absolutely wretched time, Lavender. What a way to spend summer. Get better soon, so you can get out there and enjoy it.

[addie71.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds so miserable! I'm glad you have such an attentive nurse to watch over you.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

[shirebound]

Poor baby! I'm glad Nurse Saki is on the job.

*gentle healing hugses*

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well, especially with TTT and ROTK going on. I'm glad at least you made it to them!! Feel better!!! *hugs*

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[monkey5s.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Sleep is what you need, but somehow the horking up of loads of crud from the lungs precludes that.

Good movie events, however long they are, tend to bring out extremism. When I was 14, one of my best friends was unbelievably fannish over Gone With the Wind. It was playing at a revival theater near us, and she persuaded me to go with her (I was... not so interested, really. But, it was An Event! So of course I agreed to go with).

Seems she awoke with a fever the day of the Big Event, but downplayed her illness so she could go. I had no idea she was that sick until she slumped over to lean against me, about an hour and a half in, and I realized she was burning up. I told her we had to leave at the intermission, but it took nearly as long for her mom to drive back to get us as it would have if we'd stayed in the theater. But, at least on the bench in the lobby she could lie down.

She was irritated with me for making her leave the movie, but I guess she figured we were even when I came down with her flu the next week.