The Ick

I've been sick basically since the last time I wrote - Tuesday? I cancelled my Wednesday doctor appointment because I had a sore throat, and then in really quick succession I had various combinations of sneezing and sniffling, headache, all that fun stuff, and then today I was coughing all day. I went to work, because there really was nobody to substitute for me, and just kept my distance as much as possible (and kept something nearby to sneeze into, so I hopefully was not getting my germs into the air too much). I think it was just a good old-fashioned cold, really. Nobody ever talks about having those any more, but I had a flu shot over a month ago, and Rob & I both had covid a few months ago too. (Although I guess you could get it again if it was a different variant, right? Til lately nobody around here had covid boosters to give people, which is kinda odd.) What are the other candidates? RSV? I think that would be more severe, wouldn't it?

I remember back when that everybody used to pass the "48-hour bug" around, which was mostly something similar to the symptoms I had. (Except when it was some kind of stomach virus.) Anyway, I'm hoping the 48-hour thing is right because that should mean I'm about done.

Have I mentioned that I had the dreaded shingles shot? That was a few weeks ago. My arm was red for over a week and it itched for most of that time, but I've had the shingles, years ago, and that was even more nasty, so I'll drag myself in to the doctor's office again soon and get the second one. (Oh, I remember, I asked about the covid shot then, and they said they had finally gotten them in, but you can't do that at the same time as the shingles shot! It's always something.)

The sick tag

I was whining about being sick, and so I wrote an entry about it last night, and then I spent several hours reading my way back through the sick tag for years and years - and I mean that, because my old LJ entries got ported over here. Years of me whining about sinuses and allergies and various cold/flu symptoms. Honestly it made me feel better (in a way), because I still get sick, but not like I was back then. I think it mostly subsided about a year or so after we moved out of Galveston, even though we didn't move all that far. I guess it was far enough that the allergens were different, though! I'm not sure exactly when I started posting on LJ a lot but the "sick" tag stopped (or, well, started) in early 2006.

(I feel better today, except once in a while I have to stop and cough for a few minutes. Not a bad price to pay.)