AnotherSillyAlias
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You should suffer. This is character building.
Also, it's god's way of showing you that he loves you.
I hate god...oh my goodness....
It's the bird flu. I mean this HURTS. Everything HURTS. It hurts to look at the tv.
You can't take anything for this. I've looked. NOw I'm just here in bed...suffering and my family is hiding. ohhhhhhhh.............
It's the bird flu. I mean this HURTS. Everything HURTS. It hurts to look at the tv.
You can't take anything for this. I've looked. NOw I'm just here in bed...suffering and my family is hiding. ohhhhhhhh.............
AnotherSillyAlias
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Just think about how much extra character you're going to have when all this is over. I'm sure many people envy you.
Also, in 5 billion years will it matter?
Do you think I should get a job in counselling?
Also, in 5 billion years will it matter?
Do you think I should get a job in counselling?
AnotherSillyAlias
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I knew I could help.
LibraryLady
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Take little sips of a carbonated beverage, preferably ginger ale.
Put a heating pad on low on your tummy to help relax the muscles.
Take dramamine if you can hold it down. Otherwise, see if the doctor can give you something to take from the other direction.
Keep the lights low.
Have one of the Kittens softly read a bedtime story. Goodnight Moon or The Runaway Bunny are both very soothing.
Do not watch television--there are invariably food commercials when you least want them.
You'll feel better in the morning. If I were closer, I'd make you chicken soup. If you want the recipe, I'll be glad to give it to you.
Make sure everyone feels really, really sorry for you. It's one of the few advantages of being sick.
Feel better.
Put a heating pad on low on your tummy to help relax the muscles.
Take dramamine if you can hold it down. Otherwise, see if the doctor can give you something to take from the other direction.
Keep the lights low.
Have one of the Kittens softly read a bedtime story. Goodnight Moon or The Runaway Bunny are both very soothing.
Do not watch television--there are invariably food commercials when you least want them.
You'll feel better in the morning. If I were closer, I'd make you chicken soup. If you want the recipe, I'll be glad to give it to you.
Make sure everyone feels really, really sorry for you. It's one of the few advantages of being sick.
Feel better.
wollery
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Mmmmm Chicken soup.
Save your antibiotics, when I'm ill just give me chicken soup!
Oh okay, I'll take the antibiotics, but it's the chicken soup that cures me. Honest!
(1) Where specifically does it hurt, Kitty?
(2) Have you vomited? Have you... ahem... had any problems from the "other end"?
(3) Is it a crampy, achy pain, or a sharp, stabbing one?
(4) Do you have a fever?
(5) Does it hurt to press anywhere on your stomach?
(6) Is it timed at all with eating food (i.e., makes it better or worse)?
Let's start there.
-Dr. Imago
(2) Have you vomited? Have you... ahem... had any problems from the "other end"?
(3) Is it a crampy, achy pain, or a sharp, stabbing one?
(4) Do you have a fever?
(5) Does it hurt to press anywhere on your stomach?
(6) Is it timed at all with eating food (i.e., makes it better or worse)?
Let's start there.
-Dr. Imago
No doubt Dr. Imago can come up with way more useful suggestions than I can, but this is what I do.
I try to drink mint tea, if I can. If I can not, then I just lie in bed and pretend like I have been abducted by aliens.
Mean aliens. I try to imagine every part of their giant spaceship. This is so boring I usually fall asleep.
Get better!
I try to drink mint tea, if I can. If I can not, then I just lie in bed and pretend like I have been abducted by aliens.
Mean aliens. I try to imagine every part of their giant spaceship. This is so boring I usually fall asleep. Get better!
Hmmm... That's obviously a coded message, and clearly it is upsetting the citizenry. Since it is already inside the USA, you need to contact these guys, pronto!
Physiotherapist
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Is your tummy hurting everywhere or is it painful more in one particular spot when you touch it?
Does it hurt even more when you touch it and then let go?
Is the pain in your tum sharp, cramping, aching, burning?
Do you have a fever with it and do you have any other symptoms with it apart from a sore tummy?
Do you have vomiting/diarrhoea, constipation or that kind of thing?
It could just be a nasty tummy bug, so drinking plenty of water should help. Also, I agree about heating pads or hot water bottles. They are very soothing. If it does not clear up in a few days, then go and see a doctor.
Does it hurt even more when you touch it and then let go?
Is the pain in your tum sharp, cramping, aching, burning?
Do you have a fever with it and do you have any other symptoms with it apart from a sore tummy?
Do you have vomiting/diarrhoea, constipation or that kind of thing?
It could just be a nasty tummy bug, so drinking plenty of water should help. Also, I agree about heating pads or hot water bottles. They are very soothing. If it does not clear up in a few days, then go and see a doctor.
richardm
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Don't worry, Kitty, I shall send Psychic Healing Waves across the Atlantic from Me to You.
You're feeling better already, right?
If not, when you start to feel better you'll know that the Waves have reached you and done their work.
There's no need to thank me, I have the satisfaction of a job well done
You're feeling better already, right?
If not, when you start to feel better you'll know that the Waves have reached you and done their work.
There's no need to thank me, I have the satisfaction of a job well done
ohhh....
I'm going to the ER if it keeps up. Giving it a few more hours.
Sharp pains. Chills.
Not keeping a thing down, not even sips of water. Can't sleep...
OH and thanks for the tv tip. There is a new sub at Quiznos I'm NEVER going to eat. However, every time it came on...stuff came up.
I think I"m on empty now.
But, I honestly need some pain killers. That I don't swallow!
I'm going to the ER if it keeps up. Giving it a few more hours.
Sharp pains. Chills.
Not keeping a thing down, not even sips of water. Can't sleep...
OH and thanks for the tv tip. There is a new sub at Quiznos I'm NEVER going to eat. However, every time it came on...stuff came up.
I think I"m on empty now.
But, I honestly need some pain killers. That I don't swallow!
supercorgi
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Sorry that you're so sick. Sounds like a good case of the stomach flu. Usually they pass within 24 hours, if it hasn't lessened, you should go to a doctor.
They've got them but you're not going to like how they're administered.
I had to go that route once and let me say, suppositories ain't fun.
GreyPilgrim
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don't have chicken soup!!!!
Whenever I was ill as a kid, my mum would give me lucozade (is this just a UK thing?) because it was advertised as being full of glucose, and was supposed to "be good for you"....I actually liked the taste, and because we were pretty much on the breadline lucozade was relatively expensive and so was only ever purchased when we were ill...
Now, whenever I smell the stuff, I am immediately filled with morbid memories of being ill, and tucked up in an overly warm room, feeling sick etc etc etc. It kind of has a reverse stimulus / response effect.
In short, I'd hate the same to happen to you with chicken soup. Its a shame when something you love the taste of gets these negative vibes attached to it.
Whenever I was ill as a kid, my mum would give me lucozade (is this just a UK thing?) because it was advertised as being full of glucose, and was supposed to "be good for you"....I actually liked the taste, and because we were pretty much on the breadline lucozade was relatively expensive and so was only ever purchased when we were ill...
Now, whenever I smell the stuff, I am immediately filled with morbid memories of being ill, and tucked up in an overly warm room, feeling sick etc etc etc. It kind of has a reverse stimulus / response effect.
In short, I'd hate the same to happen to you with chicken soup. Its a shame when something you love the taste of gets these negative vibes attached to it.
Chicken soup cannot have negative vibes attached to it. It just can't.
Lucozade on the other hand...... but that's a story for a different time and thread.
Big hug for Kitty. Get well soon.
Well, last summer we BBQ'ed a bunch of chicken leg quarters. A big bag (about 5-6 quarters) got lost in the freezer until last weekend. We found them then. So, I took them, put them in a big pot, and rendered them until they were not only merely dead, but really quite sincerely dead, along with a big chunk of celery, 3 full carrots, a couple of sage leaves from the front garden, a smal chunk of rosemary, a bunch of oregano (unfortunately dried, the oregano plant didn't like the 10 degree night we had a few weeks ago, it's strictly ground-level at the minute), some parsey flakes...
Then we strained out all of the solid stuff (the taste was gone from the chicken, count on that) and put in some noodles. (And a bit of salt)
Froze the remains after dinner. Came home the next night to a fierce 13 year old who wanted to know WHY DID I HAVE TO THAW OUT THE SOUP DAD?! for her afterschool snack. I'd like to report I could send some to Kitty, but I'm afraid there's none left.
Get well, Kitty. Ask me sometime about the stomach virus I got in about 1994 or so. OW OW OW.