Still miserable, I'm afraid

[wiseheart]

This stupid cold has been going on for a week and a half by now and shows no attempts to go away. It I'm still not better next Monday, I'll see my doctor and get me an attest that I'm ill. I certainly won't be standing around on the icy school yard with no voice and a cough bad enough that the dogs in the neighbourhood think they need to answer me.

I had the most miserable Christmas in years! I mean, I'm often ill over the holidays, the body seems to take advantage on the fact that I don't have to work and chooses to collapse at the precise moment when the holidays start, but this is definitely the worst I had in the last decade or so. Coughing, no sleep, cold shivers, hot shivers, no voice... I hate it!

The only positive aspect is that I finally got back to writing, as there's little else I can do right now. I'm well into Chapter 5 of "Turn Left - The Veteran's House", and I've begun posting "The Web of Darkness" to AO3, one chapter a day. I've also got my act together to write up "Captain, My Captain", a short story about how in the BM-verse Jack Harkness became the bodyguard of Mycroft Holmes. 4 short chapters only, and probably not the best ones I've ever written, but the draft has been sitting on my HD for years, and I'm glad to have it out of my hair. It's posted to both AO3 and the Pit of Voles.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I strongly second Dr. Finch's advice! Sending you Healing Elvish Medicine, to be delivered by the Elf of your choice!

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

It sounds more like a 'flu than a cold. Do go to see your doctor, it sounds dreadful! Hope you get better soon.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hope so, too.

[sammydragoncat]

Sorry to hear that you are not feeling well, I hope you are feeling better soon.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks, so do I.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

You know, I was going to say: get well soon, but if an illness persists this long, it's obvious the body needs rest. So I think sick leave wouldn't be such a bad idea. So 'get better enough for the next few days but not quite enough to skip that doctor's visit' sounds the most appropriate right now.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely give it a try next Monday.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I strongly second Dr. Finch's advice! Sending you Healing Elvish Medicine, to be delivered by the Elf of your choice!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll definitely go and see the doctor on Monday. In my current state, standing around on the icy cold school yard would only set me back, and they don't value me enough in that rotten workplace to put what's left of my health to serious risk.