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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-01-30 06:58 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2024-01-30 06:58 pm
Entry tags:
- alex,
- health,
- taylor,
- tv,
- video games
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Welp, now Alex has the crud.
Definitely the same thing I have - started with a sore throat yesterday, fairly mild cough beginning, feels way worse today. He asked how I've tolerated being sick for as long as I have, because he's on day two and ready to die. Vindicating to hear that I wasn't *just* being a huge baby, but I wish he didn't have to experience the suck first-hand.
We thought he'd escaped! He had two days of feeling minorly unwell back when I was in the worst of it, and we hoped that was him successfully fighting it off. Apparently not! Whatever virus this is, it seems to have a pretty long incubation time. I'm on day 16 (18, if you count the two days of just fatigue. Since Alex has been complaining for a few days of how he feels like he's just exhausted and unable to get enough rest, I think that likely IS an early symptom.) But around a two-week incubation lines up with the timing if I caught it from my coworker, too.
I had a couple days of feeling better on Sunday and Monday, but am feeling worse again today. Again, about the trajectory I was told to expect from my coworker, who said it's a pretty constant better-worse fluctuation with a general upward trend. He's had it for about a month now.
For me, the sore throat is the worst it's been for a few days, and the cough is a little more persistent than it was yesterday. Poor rest on my mom's loveseat for two nights and the kink it gave me in my neck probably aren't helping. :P
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I did go over to Taylor's to hang out on Sunday night and Monday, since they'd taken Monday off. We played more Final Fantasy XIV, making it through part 5 of A Realm Reborn and the Crystal Tower sidequest raids (which I'm told became pretty plot-mandatory in one of the expansions. Likely so, considering how much fanart of that catboy I've seen, lmao.) We also started watching Bodies and hit the halfway point. (I watched it while sick, about the only thing I did that week, and enjoyed it! I'm hoping they like it.)
Hit the grocery store today in order to stock up on more sick supplies for Alex. Realized after getting home that I'd left all my meds - including the px ones - at my mom's. I'll go get them after work tomorrow, and just go with the OTC stuff tonight.
Definitely the same thing I have - started with a sore throat yesterday, fairly mild cough beginning, feels way worse today. He asked how I've tolerated being sick for as long as I have, because he's on day two and ready to die. Vindicating to hear that I wasn't *just* being a huge baby, but I wish he didn't have to experience the suck first-hand.
We thought he'd escaped! He had two days of feeling minorly unwell back when I was in the worst of it, and we hoped that was him successfully fighting it off. Apparently not! Whatever virus this is, it seems to have a pretty long incubation time. I'm on day 16 (18, if you count the two days of just fatigue. Since Alex has been complaining for a few days of how he feels like he's just exhausted and unable to get enough rest, I think that likely IS an early symptom.) But around a two-week incubation lines up with the timing if I caught it from my coworker, too.
I had a couple days of feeling better on Sunday and Monday, but am feeling worse again today. Again, about the trajectory I was told to expect from my coworker, who said it's a pretty constant better-worse fluctuation with a general upward trend. He's had it for about a month now.
For me, the sore throat is the worst it's been for a few days, and the cough is a little more persistent than it was yesterday. Poor rest on my mom's loveseat for two nights and the kink it gave me in my neck probably aren't helping. :P
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I did go over to Taylor's to hang out on Sunday night and Monday, since they'd taken Monday off. We played more Final Fantasy XIV, making it through part 5 of A Realm Reborn and the Crystal Tower sidequest raids (which I'm told became pretty plot-mandatory in one of the expansions. Likely so, considering how much fanart of that catboy I've seen, lmao.) We also started watching Bodies and hit the halfway point. (I watched it while sick, about the only thing I did that week, and enjoyed it! I'm hoping they like it.)
Hit the grocery store today in order to stock up on more sick supplies for Alex. Realized after getting home that I'd left all my meds - including the px ones - at my mom's. I'll go get them after work tomorrow, and just go with the OTC stuff tonight.
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Yeah, that sucks. I hope he weathers it well.
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I hope he does, too. He seems to be having a very similar illness arc as I had, so he's... almost through the worst of it, probably.
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The Crud (tm)
You left all your meds? Whiskey. (joke - I use Nyquil Severe to fast-forward through crud outbreaks)
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Lmao, it was tempting to just try and drown it all in as much alcohol as I could scare up.
The px cough syrup tastes like the sort of really terrible fake-flavored cheap paint-thinner quality shooter alcohol you get for $1 out of a barrel by the register at the liquor store. (Though to be fair, a few of those cheap little shooters are actually delicious, lmao.)
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*hugs*