“being sick feels like you’re wearing someone else’s glasses”
I am alive though well would be a stretch. Last night won’t go down in the annals as one of my better. I woke up at 2:30 unable to catch my breath. I was about to hop into my car to go to the emergency room when the coughing slowed down. I returned to bed, propped up with pillows behind me and finally fall asleep. This morning I found my inhaler and that has made a world of difference. I have to chuckle though as my table looks like the side table of some old lady’s bedroom filled as it is with bottles, kleenex boxes and used kleenex. I should be wearing a quilted bed jacket and a lacy cap.
I just woke up from a nap, a three-hour nap. Now I’m singing the theme from Gilligan. Yikes, I’m sicker than I thought.
All my body functions and parts are failing in tandem. First was my eye-hand coordination. Last night I tipped over a full glass of sticky orange juice on my table which is filled with books. Though I cleaned it up, my fingers still stick in places I missed. When I get up, I feel a bit dizzy and do pirouettes, ungracefully I might add. I am getting quite tired of blowing my nose.
My mother was the best when I was sick. I’d lie in bed and she’d bring something to nosh like juice and crackers, sometimes Saltines or Pilot Crackers, spread with butter. Lunch was usually soup and maybe a half sandwich: tomato soup and grilled cheese was the favorite of the sick room crowd. Dunking the sandwich into the soup was rather tasty.
I loved the attention from my mother. Every other day I had to share her but not when I was sick. Sometimes being sick, but not all that sick, was worth it.
My friend Clare brought me whoopie pies and apple cider donuts yesterday. She left them on the steps put off by the quarantine signs in the windows.
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October 16, 2015 at 3:26 pm
My night was much the same, I woke up at ten to four though and couldn’t fall asleep again. Just as well since I most likely would have been even more tired when I drove to work if I had fallen asleep again. But I have to admit that besides the couging I’m rather well now and I do hope You get rid of this fast!
My mother usually made me cocoa and some buttered rusks with cheese or crumpets with cheese when I was sick, both are perfect to dunk in the cocoa, since cooking wasn’t her strong side 🙂 I’m pretty grateful she never tried to make me som soup 🙂 🙂 I did that better myself.
Take care and take some more naps 🙂
Christer.
October 16, 2015 at 3:39 pm
Christer,
Thanks. I hope the same for you as I know yours has been hanging around a long while. The coughing is the worse.
My mother just opened the Campbell’s can of soup. She could cook but opening the can was just so much easier. She added half milk and half water to make it thicker and creamier.
Thanks!!!
October 16, 2015 at 5:58 pm
Oh dear. Get better/chocolate/drunken/soup/drugs/sleep/tea/well/… – whatever helps. Sending germ-killing thoughts.
October 16, 2015 at 6:09 pm
Birgit,
Chocolate sounds like the perfect elixir. I do have stuff to make me sleep, and I’m faithful taking them knowing I need the rest. Even with the nap I’m tired.
I’m hoping those thoughts making it here soon-thanks!
October 16, 2015 at 9:19 pm
Kat,
Please get better. Will you go to the doctor if you are still sick by Monday, or at least call him or her. The hand-eye coordination and your do pirouettes, while being dizzy sounds alarming.
I am just a little sick, some coughing, and feeling sleepy, but nothing big, so far– which is good because I have a concert tonight.
Yeah, I loved it when my mom took care of me when I was sick. I wish she were here now, except she probably wouldn’t let me go out.
Healing thoughts,
Lori and the Cres
October 17, 2015 at 12:17 pm
Lori,
I will definitely go if I am not better by Monday! No, the dizziness isn’t happening often. ad I spill stuff all the time. I was just lumping together all the bad stuff.
I need a company called Rent a Mother so I can have her sympathy and her cooking.
Have fun at the concert!
October 17, 2015 at 3:27 pm
I did have fun since I never saw Dar W. before. Hmmm, rent a mom would be wonderful!
Cheers.
October 17, 2015 at 6:37 pm
Lori,
I thought you’d like her.
October 16, 2015 at 9:20 pm
Crew!
October 17, 2015 at 12:14 pm
Hich Kat,
My mother wasn’t good with sickness. Once she made sure that we didn’t require a doctor or the emergency room, she pretty much left us to our own devices. I didn’t mind. I preferred to be left alone in my misery, coughing and blowing my nose and sniffling while wrapped in blankets and reading a book.
Tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich is food of the gods. Sick or no. Now I want that meal but I have no bread. Or American cheese. Or tomato soup. 😦
This morning I got a Facebook post from a friend that Hydrox cookies are back. You can get them on Amazon. Delivered. To your door. I’m ordering some. I’ll let you know.
Get rid of the cold soon and try to enjoy the day.
Birgit’s chocolate drunken soup with drugs and sleep tea sounds perfect for everything that might ail one. 😀
October 17, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Hi Caryn,
My mother was always so wonderfully sympathetic. I too liked snuggling under the warm covers and reading. I did that yesterday.
I’d love grilled cheese but I haven’t any bread, lots of cheese but nowhere to put it.
Do let me know about Hydrox. My sister had read an article a while back which said another comfy had bought the brand and the recipe. Now I’m salivating for some Hydrox!
October 17, 2015 at 7:35 pm
It’s owned by a new company. Sunshine sold to Keebler who turned them into Droxies. Keebler was acquired by Kelloggs who dumped them entirely. Now LeafBrands has gone back to the original formula with real sugar. It’s Hydrox with a ™ after it now. 🙂
I got them from Amazon. They should be here soon.
October 17, 2015 at 7:44 pm
Cation,
I called my sister to let her know also. She loves them too. That’s a mishmash of companies.
Thanks!!!
October 18, 2015 at 12:26 am
I was and am an Oreo fanboy. I have trouble not eating an entire package in one evening. I only really like the originals.
Whenever my mother bought Hydrox I just couldn’t enjoy them. Yes, some one has acquired the Hydrox brand and figured out the cookie formula by reading the ingredients on an old box and trial and error baking tasting from a twenty year old box of cookies. It doesn’t matter because no one will remember how the fresh originals tasted anyway. RIP Hydrox, you were always second fiddle to me. 🙂
October 18, 2015 at 11:56 am
Bob,
I was brought up on the original Oreos. I remember my sisters sitting on the back steps pulling the ends apart, eating the side with the cream and feeding the other side to the dog. It was my dad who introduced us to Hydrox. I don’t remember why or even when. He liked milk with his cookies.
They had help from some of the original Hydrox producers. They have removed the sugary fructose Oreo’s have, and the cookie is crisper than its competitor’s.
I know people who have already ordered them from Amazon.
October 18, 2015 at 2:28 pm
Give me all the sugary fructose I can get. The guy making the new Hydrox is interested in bringing back other orphaned brands. I didn’t like Hydrox when they were being made by who ever and I won’t order them now. Long live the Oreo, it’s the most popular cookie in the world.
October 18, 2015 at 4:42 pm
Bob,
I am not as vehement about my choice of cookies. I can eat one or the other. I do choose the orange Oreos around Halloween, in keeping with the season.