Blargh

[pameladean]

I was going to post about Minicon, but the main legacy of Minicon at the moment seems to be a fairly nasty cold. The standard symptoms, while impressive-sounding -- lucious, hacking cough and amazingly watery exudations -- are not really more than annoying. My throat hurts very intermittently, and I can breathe fine. But I've been running a fever since Monday. It took me until quite late in the day to even figure this out. I don't usually run fevers and thought that my feeling generally awful was the result of the affliction's having completely knocked out my appetite. But after a comedy of errors with the peanut-butter jar and the painstaking ingestion of a reasonable quantity of nourishment, I thought to get out the digital thermometer. 102.2. Um, okay. Tylenol is keeping it at normal, and I let the tylenol wear off every morning to see how it's doing. But even a lower fever really just fries my ability to concentrate -- a little dicey at the best of times, but still -- and causes me to resemble a whiny four-year-old.

The cats think it's great, though. A warmer-than-usual person who sleeps a lot. Such bliss.

Has anybody else got a post-Minicon cold or whatever, or am I singularly blessed?

Pamela

Comments

[guppiecat]

I have one. Feeling a bit better day by day though. Tuesday was the worst.

[pameladean]

Yep, Tuesday was the day I had my encounter with the peanut-butter jar. I am still getting bits of peanut butter off various surfaces in the upstairs kitchen, and sometimes out of my hair.

I hope you feel altogether better soon.

P.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

"...my encounter with the peanut-butter jar."

I don't even want to think about what this could mean. (grin)

[pameladean]

No cat crotches were involved.

P.

[droolfangrrl.livejournal.com]

I've got a kid in school, no need to go to any convention, the germs come home with him. :D

[pameladean]

Oh dear. Such little germ factories they are.

P.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

I got one too, though it took until Tuesday to sink its claws in.

[pameladean]

Yes, Tuesday seems to be the preferred day for the thing to be at its worst. I hope you're getting better now.

P.

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I came back from Minicon with a cold, but it seems to be getting better.

Nate

[pameladean]

Better is good!

P.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Count me in. UGH. Mine is, as always happens, in my bronchial passages. No fever, persistent dry cough. So there may be more than one thing going around. Ugh, ugh, ugh.

[pameladean]

Ugh indeed; very sorry to hear it.

I guess it could be several things, or people could just have different reactions. I thought this would be a bronchial thing when it started, but then it mutated.

P.

[guppiecat]

Why do they always mutate to make us either sicker or sick in a different way? If they mutated to give us super powers, there would be a clear evolutionary advantage for them.

[pameladean]

Well, you can tell a virus, but you can't tell it much.

P.

[carbonel]

Last year, I came home with a cold from just about every convention I went to. This year has a better record so far, and no post-Minicon crud.

If it weren't for all the other "me, too" posts, I'd suggest that if you continue to run a fever, it might be flu rather than just a cold.

I hope things improve soon.

[pameladean]

Hmm, maybe I feel worse than I think! I replied as a first-level comment rather than threading it properly under yours.

P.

[carbonel]

Thanks for the pointer.

[pameladean]

Well, I guess if it is, there's nothing to be done about it.

I don't think I feel awful enough for it to be flu. None of that run-over-by-a-truck stuff.

I haven't checked to see how the flu vaccines last fall lined up with what flus are actually running around making trouble.

P.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

I got Con Crud, which blended nicely with seasonal allergies.

[pameladean]

Yes, the first thing I did when I woke up feeling bad on Monday was to check the pollen count. Yikes.

P.

[quility.livejournal.com]

Count me in. Only mildly annoying compared to my last illness - but hopefully it will be gone soon for all of us!

[pameladean]

Sorry to hear it!

I suppose Moneyduck is a very good way to transmit viruses, now that I think of it. Maybe we need gloves. 8-)

P.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Hee! It amuses me that you're still using that name for it.

(The game has a boardgamegeek.com entry under "Eat Poop You Cat"....)

[pameladean]

Oh, yeah.

Do you know about MegaMoneyduck?

P.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

No! Do tell.

[pameladean]

It was invented for Minicon 45, I think, by quility. It's a machine -- basically a metal box -- with a huge roll of paper and a crank. So the person beginning writes the sentence at the top, and when the next person comes along and makes a drawing, they crank the paper along so only the drawing shows, and the next person does the same, so at any given time only one drawing or one sentence shows. The contributions are numbered and there's space to put your name or alias if you like.

This way the entire convention can participate in playing Moneyduck without actually having to sit down for a set time. They do the reveal as a programming item on Sunday, with a projector so everybody can see the drawings, and this year they recruited people experienced in doing reveals, gave them a laser pointer for the better explication of the art, and spelled them every ten entries.

The reveal this year just about killed me with laughter.

P.

[lcohen]

yikes, i'm so sorry you're sick. but more to the point, how did this miss me? i have lungs made out of paper. and i hugged and kissed all of you.

[pameladean]

That had occurred to me too. All I can postulate is that we all encountered the infectious agent on Sunday evening.

P.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

I'm more sneezy than usual, but cold-free. So far, at least.

[pameladean]

The colors on the pollen forecast are weirding me out, let me tell you.

P.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I have been tired but not sick. I missed the Dead Dodo party due to being unable to bestir myself and I had a 4 hour nap today on the couch, being the warm lump on which Comet perched.

Feel better,

K.

[pameladean]

Thanks, I hope I will soon.

I missed the Dead Dodo too, possibly because I was already getting sick.

I'm sure Comet was pleased by the napping.

P.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

How very grim. Hope you feel better soon.

[pameladean]

Thanks. The unmedicated fever is showing a strong downwards trend, at least.

P.

[biblio-tech.livejournal.com]

I just read an article encouraging folks not to medicate fevers because that deadens one of our defenses against inflamation (or would that be offenses--the way it attacks the bad stuff). It made sense, but I'm not likely to do it until I'm completely retired and have no obligations to anyone. I lose my ability to think even before my temp reaches 99. Plus, the whiny thing.