Canary warnings
Feb. 16th, 2005 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melcharIt's been interesting. Trey caught the ugly/nasty flu that's been going around. I fear he might have caught it from Elizabeth [in part because she was feeling so badly on Saturday]. So my poor boy has chills, a high fever, body aches, a sore throat and is coughing a LOT.
So it makes me wonder when the canary in MY cage is going to roll over and die. I've got the weak warnings of possible flu - but nowhere near that bad. Which makes me go 'hmmmmmm'. I have long been a home for all germs and viruses that wandered by - or was until I had this killer flu 4 years ago. Apparently that virus moved in forever and fights off the -other- viruses; rebounding on me whenever I would get sick with anything else. But it's a milder sort of flu. So I'm not sure if I'm luckier or unlucky in this respect.
The other thing that might be helping is the Nasarel I'm taking daily for allergies. According to what I've read, it's not so much the steroid anti-allergy spray that's helping, but flushing the nasal passages. Keeping one's nasal passages moist and irrigated is supposed to help flush out viruses so they can't set up housekeeping.
I still wonder if the latest version of the super-cruddy flu will out-wrestle my own pitiful defenses and triumph, moving in to stay for a while.....
So it makes me wonder when the canary in MY cage is going to roll over and die. I've got the weak warnings of possible flu - but nowhere near that bad. Which makes me go 'hmmmmmm'. I have long been a home for all germs and viruses that wandered by - or was until I had this killer flu 4 years ago. Apparently that virus moved in forever and fights off the -other- viruses; rebounding on me whenever I would get sick with anything else. But it's a milder sort of flu. So I'm not sure if I'm luckier or unlucky in this respect.
The other thing that might be helping is the Nasarel I'm taking daily for allergies. According to what I've read, it's not so much the steroid anti-allergy spray that's helping, but flushing the nasal passages. Keeping one's nasal passages moist and irrigated is supposed to help flush out viruses so they can't set up housekeeping.
I still wonder if the latest version of the super-cruddy flu will out-wrestle my own pitiful defenses and triumph, moving in to stay for a while.....
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Date: 2005-02-17 07:20 am (UTC)The Plague ^_^
Date: 2005-02-17 07:56 pm (UTC)My fever has broken, though I'm still running at an elevated temp. Seriously, if folks have concerns, but still want to play, I will be happy to make myself scarce during the proceedings. Just let Melchar know what you'd like.