Bleah.

Dec. 30th, 2003 11:18 pm
rivka: (smite)
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I think I'm coming down with the vicious cold [livejournal.com profile] curiousangel picked up from my seven-year-old niece. Current symptoms: exhaustion all day although I did precious little, muscle aches, beginnings of a cough and scratchy throat, exhaustion, headache, chills, more exhaustion, profound dislike of self, inertia.

Bleah.

Date: 2003-12-30 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammylc.livejournal.com
Blech. I hope you feel better soon. It definitely seems to be going around. Here - I'm sending you some virtual chicken soup. *splash* Damn, forgot to send the bowl first...

BTW - I sent you email today about my upcoming trip to your neck o' the woods. I didn't have your regular address, so I sent it to rivka@livejournal.com, assuming that would get to you...

Date: 2003-12-30 08:39 pm (UTC)

Date: 2003-12-30 11:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] geekchick
Bleah. Hope you both feel better soon.

Date: 2003-12-30 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com
Send himself to the store to get you some Zicam (https://www.prohealthnetwork.com/shop/product.cfm?product__code=N080). I'm not kidding. I don't use many OTC meds, and I'm not a big fan of anything labeled "homeopathic", but I think that's a misnomer in this case. It's nothing but zinc in an inert gel; you squirt a little just inside your nostrils (don't snort).

It has *very* good research behind it (reduces cold duration by 75 percent when taken at onset of symptoms). I'm in my second winter of using the stuff and I haven't had a full-blown cold yet; the one I did have was very brief and minor.

Date: 2004-01-02 09:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnpalmer.livejournal.com
Zicam isn't homeopathic, as far as I know... unless zinc causes cold symptoms, it isn't homeopathic by standard homeopathic standards.

It's just zinc in a tolerable form that gets soaked into the mucous membranes. The way I heard it, scientists had known that getting zinc into those areas would help a cold for a long time, but until the recent advent of non-horrible zinc lozenges (and now, Zicam and such), no one had been able to find way to get zinc there that people didn't find ghastly enough that it was just easier to suffer through the cold.

Date: 2003-12-31 12:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kiya
Nerk. Sounds like the flu I had. . . .

Date: 2003-12-31 03:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janetmiles.livejournal.com
Sounds like the creeping crud that's been going around, yep. Hope you feel better soon.

Date: 2003-12-31 04:57 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] therealjae.livejournal.com
Oh nooooo! Euthanize! Euthanize! Double dose!

-J

Date: 2003-12-31 05:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com
You're darn lucky I have an encyclopedic knowledge of West Wing quotes, young lady.

Date: 2003-12-31 05:21 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] therealjae.livejournal.com
*gigglesmooch*

-J

Date: 2003-12-31 05:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anotheranon.livejournal.com
Uck :( Sending a virtual gallon of orange juice your way!

Date: 2003-12-31 07:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hobbitbabe.livejournal.com
Bleargh indeed.

Did you have energetic plans for this evening?

Date: 2003-12-31 07:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com
We had been planning to go to the Folklore Society of Greater Washington's annual New Year's English Dance, but we never got around to buying tickets. And a good thing, now.

Date: 2003-12-31 07:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
I hope it doesn't get too much worse. Paula is in North Arundel right now with pneumonia that she developed after she came down with the flu. She's stable, I have some symptoms myself. Not much fun.

Date: 2003-12-31 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com
Oh my gosh! I had no idea. I hope she recovers quickly, and that you stay well.

Under the circumstances, do you want to put off Thursday night dinner until next week?

Date: 2003-12-31 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalmn.livejournal.com
more napping for you, young lady!

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