Sick As a Dog
Ah well… I guess I had to succumb eventually. If anyone’s got a spare throat to lend, I’m more than a willing customer. I just hate it when I’m this sick - not really totally sick, but way too sick to do anything but lay around and feed myself with vitamin C, Coldrex, Aspirin and Angal S.
Thankfully, I’m being reared through this one 
In the meantime, however, it seems that the old feed-the-cold-starve-the-fever approach actually works. Also included are some other interesting health-related articles, including one on preventing hangovers.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Sounds awful. Get well soon - it’s Friday tomorrow and we can go without our usual Friday “serving”.
Alcohol and honey would be my remedies!
Any idea where you caught the bug?
November 1st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Oh, I’m sorry to read this… Do take some rest, my guess is the world will go on spinning… The only reason I find cold bearable is I can stay in bed (with the significant other who passed the virus, preferably
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November 1st, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Get well soon, P.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Oh Pengovsky, that is some unpleasant news. You’ve been overheating yourself again, right? C’mon, do take care of yourself buddy, so that I won’t have to read about how you had to suck comb dammit!
I can hardly imagine any pleasure in that!
Otherwise, let me remind you of an older post, where we already went through the lesson of spelling the word “succumb”.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:02 pm
@Adriaan & alcessa: alcessa’s comment hold the key to the mystery
@ARF: Thanks! A bit of good old beef stew should do the trickv
@Luka: dully corrected
No more sucking comb on my part…
November 1st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Of course it does.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
That makes you a human and the “good” thing about it is that you have to rest. You know.. you have to rest too
November 1st, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Feel better soon!
November 1st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
@Mr. P: Tsk, tsk, tsk, was one of the Friday Foxies rabid?
BTW, I’d love to help out, but my spare throat is still at the repair shop. Final tuning in progress 
@Adriaan: Right, but disguised in tea. I.e. tea with loads of honey, lemon and… possibly rum?
Oh and I don’t think Mr. P will let you guys go through a foxiless Friday on account of a
@alcessa: That’s exactly how I feel about it
November 1st, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Unfortunately, I couldn’t act out my romantic version last time: I was ill for a whole month and had to see my GP in the end and get some serious medicine. Against a cold - I had never done that before. Somehow stupid and not romantic at all, if you are coughing your non-smokers lung out
November 1st, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Awww.I don’t know what to say, so here’s a cheesy American picture for you.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Crni? Was that really you? No dirty parts of the Urban Dictionary in your comment? Can’t believe it.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:15 pm
@crni: Now that was rather unexpected. Thanks!
@alcessa: I’m still recuperating from the blow myself
November 1st, 2007 at 9:24 pm
@alcessa: I can relate, non-smokers’ lungs and all… mine went on for the last 10 days or so, but I think/hope it’s nearing its end. One freelancer to another (?) I suspect you weren’t exactly resting that month you were ill…
@crni: Goodness gracious me!
Bless your heart… 
November 1st, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Dr. filomena: no, I never do. But what does it matter when it’s at home?
(I could have easily won a “World’s Most Eager Tea Consumer of the Year Award” or something…)
On the other hand: I don’t seem to remember coughing so badly while I was still smoking. Go figure.
I do hope you’ll both get well as soon as possible. And most of all: let us all have some cold-free months, we did deserve them.
November 1st, 2007 at 11:35 pm
@alcessa: I thought so
BTW I think I already come in as a close second for that particular award.
Here’s to cold-less months!
November 5th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Oh, come one, just because I busted his chops once or twice doesn’t mean I don’t like the guy or wish him harm…