Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 59 - Still sick

Spent the day watching Ellen, and catching up on 4 episodes of Eureka and 5 of Glee.


And walking to the doctor to get checked out in 30+ degree humidity - thankfully doctors surgery, while spartan and industrial, was chilled like a fridge. Bliss.


Back home via Erko shops to get some meds and then home to sleep...

Post- zombie apocalypse industrial. Thankfully doctor warm and friendly.

Funky graffiti on an auctions place near the surgery on way home.

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 236 - Home Again....Now Not Just Cold But....

.... my back, people, my back!


Not content with letting a miscreant virus run havoc through my system, my body, after careful consideration, and weighing up the many options available to it, decided to throw out my lower back! Now it's not the first time this has happened, as my physio, currently holidaying on Cancun will attest, and it's an annoying side effect of sleeping on my stomach since I was a kid, but I don't think I have ever had my back go out while I was sick with a cold! It was only a matter of time I guess since I spent much of the last four days napping and sleeping at night on my stomach but still..... NOT HAPPY JAN (memo to self : get a new snappy pop culture phrase to denote unhappiness and do it smartly!)

Thankfully once again, Eureka came to the rescue and I watched a lot of season 2 episodes (numbers 5 through 10) in between the napping, Ellen show watching and comfort food eating (cannot wait to get back to exercise and slim down again, yummy though the consumption of obscenely unhealthy food has been, and unquestionably restorative in it's efficacy) 

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 235 (Tuesday 23 August) - Yet More Sickness, Thankfully More Eureka

Never has one man been so grateful for one TV show.


I was home again today, chained to my bed - only figuratively; while some kinkiness may be fun, I am pretty it's not something I want to do when my lungs are full of phlegm and my neck glands are swollen (according to the very nice doctor I saw today) - and while I think I will spend my sick days doing lots of stuff I can't do when I am at work, the truth is I am usually too...um... sick to do any of those things soooo...

I lie in bed, drink Lemsips, throw down aspirins, sleeps lots and watch my new favourite TV show, which is so quirky, fun and full of just the sort of distracting pop cultureness that you need when your body once again plays host to the wrong kind of virus.


MEMO TO SELF - check if there is a good kind of virus. My scantly recalled year 8 biology knowledge is failing me at the moment (not that it ever really proved to be of much benefit)

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 234 : Sickerer and Sickerer

Yep I woke up even sicker today with what feels like a sore lump in my throat, a deep, throaty, and thoroughly unsexy cough coupled with near immovable chest congestion. I feel so tired that all I really want to do is sleep which I guess is my body's way of saying "STOP BEING AN EXTROVERT LONG ENOUGH FOR ME TO HEAL DUMBASS!" (think Red, the dad from That 70s Show saying this.)

At least the time off work has given me a chance to watch the remaining episodes of Eureka season 1... well at least when I wasn't drowsily closing my eyes and missing segments.

Heal thyself body!

I will now sleep...

( I am not vomiting but the images used above are so much fun that I had to use them)