I’m just sick.
Booked off work for a week yesterday, first time I’ve done that in eight years on the job. I can’t even bring myself to blog from bed.
This is what happens when starting four weeks back you ignore a cold, let it get worse to the point where you’re laying catatonic in bed for nearly three days, watch it slowly get better, then the night before you feel it getting worse again fly off to Bucharest for work and then try to put in three 18-hour days back-to-back, top it off with an all-nighter, barely making it to the airport to flop yourself home.
See you in a week or so. Or maybe sooner if I feel up to it. The backlog is there, I just can’t lift a finger to write it.
The banner photograph shows the town of Britannia Beach, BC, Canada, where I grew up. It's home. But I don't live there anymore.
my condolences…. get better soon!
Gute Besserung, and don’t lift a finger – especially to blog – until you feel completely better.
Get well soon!
Wishing you a speedy recovery…ciao
Pobrecito! I’m kind of in the same boat (turns out it wasn’t just a hangover the other day). But I’m ‘lucky’ that I have most of this week off anyhow because of the Feria, otherwise I’d be losing income as well as feeling like total crap (though I can still blog from bed in between coughing fits).
Take care of yourself …
Stick yourself in bed with a mug of lemsip and a good book… don’t forget, this is not just a cold, it’s not just flu… it’s MAN-FLU….
Man Cold
I appreciate all the get-well wishes.
Time and an antibiotic are going to do their trick.
Cat: as a hopelessly unenlightened colonial, I hadn’t heard of Lemsip. We have something similar in Canada, though I’ve forgotten the name of it.
I’ve forgotten the name too … Nyquil? Or something put out by Vicks? But it came in packets the same as Lemsip.
My father’s ‘Newfie Cold Cure’ was similar, but after adding boiling water to fresh lemon juice and a dollop of honey, you then added a huge measure of dark rum. After two or three of those you went to bed wearing practically every article of clothing you owned, including socks, and sweated like a pig all night long. In the morning – hey, no more cold, eh?
My link for the ‘man cold’ video went missing, ian. Just thought Cat might enjoy it.
Actually, the comment landed in spam! I go diving in there quite often, as a few comments do go astray. I’ve an idea what it’s going to show, so I didn’t hit play.
Ian,
I hope you get better soon. I landed in bed for a full week. In bed. As in, unable to even wake up to eat. So, I spent the better part of two weeks FULLY ASLEEP. Hope you get well soon!
Thanks, Raul. I’m on the mend, thanks to some loving care and blissful, relaxing rest.
ian, get better soon! you really have to take better care of yourself.
http://www.glumbert.com/media/mancold
He’s gotta watch it now, bine!
I flat out refuse!
Edit: OK, I clicked on it… couldn’t resist.
No wonder the wife hasn’t any sympathy for the guy. His voice is totally normal! Only yesterday did I regain the ability to speak above a rasp.
At least they could have plugged his nose with something to mage hib soud a bid stuvvd ub.
I think you kinda missed the point, honey. A MAN COLD doesn’t actually need to have any symptoms other than a sense of ‘otherness’ and possibly not feeling ‘quite the thing’. And so a bit of nasal stuffiness and errant mucous is sure to send one dialling for 911.
I loved the bit about the hurty knee.
Apparently I have bronchitis now. Not pretty.
Damn, I have a man-brain too. Is that why I missed the point?
Thanks Azahar… I’d already posted that clip on my blog a few days earlier – it’s a classic. Good to meet a “connoisseur”