vote plague

[astro_noms]

I'm sick. I don't actually know what it is, because I was so out of it when I went to see the doctor that I forgot to ask (although why doctors don't tell you these things unprompted is beyond me). I'm guessing it's some kind of respiratory infection, just going by the horrible rattling cough I've had for the last few days (and going by personal experience from other times I've had coughs like this). I'm taking antibiotics, I've got nighttime pills with codeine to suppress the cough so I can sleep, and I've got stuff to take in the morning to actually help me cough. I've also got a doctor's note that excuses me from classes until Friday, and while I was initially planning on going to class tomorrow, I'm honestly not sure if I'm going to manage. It's the worst kind of feeling, when you're ostensibly fine, but something as simple as getting up off the couch and going to the kitchen to make tea leaves you soaked in sweat and dizzy. Or when you feel mostly OK, and you avoid moving a lot to avoid that dizzy feeling, but when you actually try to do anything beyond sleeping, your brain is so fuzzy you can barely string two words together.

Mainly, I'm just feeling sorry for myself, because while I'm pretty lazy by nature and don't mind doing nothing, actually being unable to do things I want to do and being forced to do nothing is horrible. I've got a mountain of work, both school and otherwise, that I should be doing, but I'm having trouble keeping a train of thought going in a blog post, so reading academic texts or attempting translation has not been a very successful endeavor most of the time.

Why can't we just have spare bodies to switch into for times like this? All I want is the ability to think clearly and maybe go fifteen minutes without having to cough or sneeze or blow my nose. :(

Mirrored from Tangents and Digressions.