I Hab A Colb

[jeshyr]

I hab a cold.

It is surprisingly hard to type in slurry hab-a-colb accent on a computer which tries to autocorrect typos... oops.

There is snot everywhere, which is made more gross by my nose being all blood-dribbling from something-or-other[*] so I am leaving a trail of snotty blood-stained tissues all around the house.

I invested in those aloe-vera impregnated tissues which cost a crazy amount because my nose is way too sore for anything else. I object to the cost but this is a snot-related emergency so it's worth it :)

Missed out on craft day with Mum and Aunty and other family-peoples yesterday on account of being all snotty, which has increased my grump factor. Grump factor is already high on account of feeling like shit and somehow snotty colds are high on the self-pity scale. Luckily my flatmate is being very understanding and not taking anything personally when I grump.

Also I can't concentrate on anything, even cat macros. :(


Grumpy
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[*] The something-or-other is either allergies or the allergy meds, nobody is quite sure but it doesn't really matter because neither is serious and we can't change either of them anyway.

Comments

[acelightning]

*hands you virtual tea, chicken soup, and a cute wastebasket with penguins on it for your snotty tissues*

*hugs*

[jeshyr]

*hugs* Thank you :)

I have been having Ricky-style chicken soup which is very nice and soft on the throat.

[acelightning]

mostly broth, cooked slowly for a long time so that all the flavors of the chicken and vegetables and seasonings go into the liquid, then the solids removed, the broth boiled down a bit to concentrate the flavor (*), and maybe some soft cooked rice and bits of soft chicken meat put back in so you're not just drinking broth :-)

(*) everything before the * can be approximated by buying health-food-store chicken broth in a 1-liter retort pouch... made with free-range organically-raised chicken, organic vegetables and herbs, a small amount of sea salt, and no MSG - they sell this in Whole Foods, and even in some everyday supermarkets now. then all you have to do is get a bit of cooked chicken, and cooked rice or noodles (also from Whole Foods or equivalent), and heat it all together.

and then have raspberry sorbet for dessert. i find that really good raspberry sorbet (there is a brand that is mostly raspberries, with just enough sugar) soothes a sore throat beautifully - each cold, tangy spoonful feels better than the last as it slides gently down your throat.
:-D

*hugs*

[jeshyr]

See my version of chicken soup was the spoon-saving version which is more like this:

Grab udon noodles or 2 minute noodles from pantry and boil up. Throw 2 tsp of chicken stock powder per cup of water in with water while boiling. Add a cup full of frozen corn kernels too.

Drain some of the water off (I like thick stuff) and add 1/3 can of creamed corn and some processed cheese and stir it all around.

Microwave it some more if it isn't hot enough.

Eat. Try not to get *too* much of it all over the bed. Eating lying down is hard!

[acelightning]

i'm always suspicious of stock powder; it has a tendency to have "salt, monosodium glutamate, dextrose" as its first three ingredients (listed in order of weight), with "chicken" (or even just "chicken fat" quite a bit further down the list. i also wouldn't have expected someone with cold symptoms to want to eat creamed corn and cheese... but then again, when i get a cold, i always eat things that are even spicier than my usual preference, and IIRC you don't tolerate spices. (and i loathe soup of any kind.)

can you sit up a little bit to eat, and then lie back down?

[jeshyr]

I read this comment last night and have been thinking about it all night and I have decided there are two types of snotty colds... one type is where you feel like your throat and nose is coated in concrete snot and you want to eat really spicy stuff to make the snot come loose. The second type is where you feel like your mucous membranes have been shredded by excess snot production and are so raw that even breathing hurts and you want to eat stuff which is creamy and dairy-ish to coat them in a protective layer.

As you can see, I have a type 2 cold at the moment.

(Also, I don't much care if my stock is entirely made of MSG at the moment just so long as it tastes OK)

[acelightning]

i find that creamy dairy-ish things "coat" my throat in ways that just make it worse, as in causing more phlegm - when i took voice lessons, my teacher always warned me never to consume any dairy products on a day when i was going to sing. but the raspberry sorbet i mentioned was marvelously soothing in a different way :-)

i'm a little surprised that MSG doesn't have unpleasant effects on you - it has unpleasant effects on me (and so does aspartame). anyway, i hope that by now you're getting better!

*hugs*

[synecdochic]

Oh dear! I hope it passes quickly.

Do you guys have Aquaphor over there? It's fabulous for "oh god my skin is disintegrating due to repeated nose blowing". (And it's pretty basic ingredients -- petrolatum, mineral oil, ceresin, lanolin alcohol, panthenol, glycerin, and bisabolol according to my tube -- so it doesn't smell funny and it's less likely to cause further irritations.) If not I could send you a tube for next time :)

[jesse_the_k]

And if you don't, and you can tolerate it, dipping one's pinky in petroleum jelly and then swabbing the first 30 mm of your nostrils can do wonders.

Perhaps you could use water to sluice the snot off your nose every 30 minutes, and otherwise just be that snotty? and grumpy?

Just sayin'

[jeshyr]

Thanks both - I seem to be a bit less snotty today so hopefully I'm on the mend! *hugs*

[kaberett]

Snotty colds are the WORST THING for making me feel sorry for myself. Pneumonia doesn't come close - it just pisses me off.

[jeshyr]

They seem to be a uniquely misery-making thing to me too! *hugs* I seem to be on the mend though *touch wood*

thinking of you Ricky

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Ricky

Just want to say I'm thinking of you and hope your cold is much much better now.
love and *hugs*

Anne (Pitkin) xxxx