Non-apocalyptic

[mrissa]

So. I'm able to open my eyes and look at the computer screen consistently. When I went down to get a glass of milk this morning, I did not have to do it on my butt so that there wouldn't be so far to fall if I fell. This means today is a better day than yesterday.

I have also taken off the leggings underneath my long flannel nightgown, as I am not ridiculously cold, and breakfast did not send me into fifteen minutes of uncontrollable shivers. Definitely also an improvement.

I still ache all over, I still have a sore throat and postnasal drip and nothing tastes good and I'm coughing more. This worries me a bit, since it's how things started when I got So Very Sick a few years ago and then was a Fraggle for months afterwards. (Fragile, worn to a frazzle....) I'm keeping an eye on it. I promise.

But at least I can read today, I hope, or watch a movie, or maybe even work. I had periods of being able to read yesterday, but only Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, because I knew that when I stopped being able to read and just had to lie still and think for awhile, I wouldn't be thinking, "Hey, wait, what about ____? That's stupid!" I also somewhat watched but mostly listened to the Canadiens lose again. Ah well.

The other news of yesterday is that Mark's motherboard -- you know, the one that runs our server -- is finally dead. He went and bought himself a new machine. Said new machine is still being set up and configured and all that. So I have access to messages that arrived since the motherboard died, but the others are beyond my reach for now. I also would have to mess with his computer to update my "real" journal. I'm not gonna. It can wait.

Thank you all for being nice to me.

Comments

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Thank you all for being nice to me.

That is a very easy thing to do. Hope you continue to get better quickly.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Get better soon, The Mrissa.

Do you want me to bring over some soup???

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you, but I have some leftover Bob-doup for lunch, and Mark's picking up some Byerly's soup for later. I will be all souped up. It's sweet of you to offer, though. (And if this isn't Roo's virus, I don't want you or him or God-forbid Mike to catch it!)

[pameladean]

Oh, lovely, it's nice to be able to help by proxy.

Don't overdo things just because you feel better. Continue to cosset.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Timprov read this and murmured, "Yes, you listen to Pam." But truth to tell, it's been obvious I'm really sick because I haven't tried to work at all in two and a half days. Not work-work, not housework, and barely get-my-own-damn-beverage work. I'd like to claim virtue here, but I'm really a horrible sick person that way; mostly I'm still just too beat to try to misbehave.

I'll come back and read the reminder tomorrow or the next day, though....

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I like being nice to people, so no thanks needed! You take of yourself and get feeling better. I second Pamela, don't overdue it, take the time to let your body heal properly.