I've been hacking coughing since Tuesday night. Wednesday and Thursday, at about 3:30 in the afternoon, my temperature jumps up to about 101.5 (my base temperature is around 97, so that's even higher than it sounds).
Tova had this, and it lasted a week. Same for a friend of hers from school, and same for her friend's mother. I really don't want this to last for a week.
I told my partner that it felt like I was coughing up Torquemada. She asked if it was that torturous. I explained that I knew it couldn't be Torquemada, because... no one expectorates the Spanish Inquisition. I think that was the loudest groan I've ever gotten for a bad pun.
I actually whispered all of that, because I can barely talk, which, actually, I don't think Tova had. Hmm...
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: no one expectorates the Spanish Inquisition.
Sure hope you feel better soon, Lisa.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I'm stealing that pun!
Feel better soon!
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
Thanks. I actually got feverish this morning, so I'm staying home. I think it just broke, since I'm completely soaking. I hate this.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I've been sick for a week. I've missed two days of work so far, missed out on a week and a half of fun, and I'm still not better. I got it from my roommate, who teaches elementary school. This is awful. Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
I hope you feel better. I don't know where you live, but they say this has been going around Chicago. Eck.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Oh, do I feel for you. I just got through a cough that lasted a month and a half. I had just decided this would be how the rest of my life would be.
Glad yours will be over sooner. I wish for it to be over even sooner than that. Posted by Libbie (Member # 9529) on :
Ha!! Love it. I hope you're feeling better soon!
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Lisa, that pun totally blindsided me and got me grinning like an idiot =)
I hope you feel better soon. Try some Aleve. It really helps when I have a fever. And you only have to take it ever 8 hrs or so.
Pix
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bob_Scopatz: I'm stealing that pun!
And nobody can Torquemada-vit.
But seriously, Lisa, feel better. I do hope that you have some hard-core chicken soup for Shabbos. And, as a medical professional, I am advising you to limit your time outside in that damp and chilly sukkah to just long enough to make Kiddish, and then you high-tail it back inside and duck under the comfy Afghan. Okay?
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Pixiest: Lisa, that pun totally blindsided me and got me grinning like an idiot =)
I hope you feel better soon. Try some Aleve. It really helps when I have a fever. And you only have to take it ever 8 hrs or so.
It's apparently more effective if you aren't allergic to it. <sigh>
The doctor said there's a 1 in 4 chance that it's bacterial, so I'm taking Zithromax.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
quote:Originally posted by Bob_Scopatz: I'm stealing that pun!
And nobody can Torquemada-vit.
Oh, ouch. Ouch.
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: But seriously, Lisa, feel better. I do hope that you have some hard-core chicken soup for Shabbos.
I think we may have some turkey soup. That's even better, in my experience.
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: And, as a medical professional, I am advising you to limit your time outside in that damp and chilly sukkah to just long enough to make Kiddish, and then you high-tail it back inside and duck under the comfy Afghan. Okay?
Aye, aye.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Blind sided by that pun! Brilliant work! If puns are the lowest form of humor I seriously hope that if I enter a persistant vegitative state I do nothing but spout them off.
Definately sounds bacterial focus all your energy into phagocyte production! Get your cells to eat those heretic hunting bacteria and expectorate them!
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
*said in very tiny sheepish voice*: I don't get the pun. (starLisa's, not Tante's . . . I mean, I know who Torquemada was, & that his name is synonomous w/ the Inquisition--what am I missing?)
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Um ... Monty Python?
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!"
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Oh . . . that would be my ignorance of Monty Python showing, then! thanks.
Oh, and feel better soon, starLisa!!
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Best pun I've heard in a long long time. Thank you.
And feel better! Mucusin always works for me.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Awesome pun Feel better!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Hey, Shvester! Are you feeling any better?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Lisa? Lisa? Are you still breathing?
Lisa? Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
Hey, yeah. I'm good. The Zithromax did the job. I still had gunk in my lungs, and I was pretty weak all weekend long, but other than that, B'H, I'm a lot better.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
B'H! (and I don't mean Big Head or Bodacious Hooters) I've been rooting for the whole refuah sh'leimah thing. Glad the Zithro maxed you.
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Feel better!