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Feb. 27th, 2008 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litheraI am ill.
I'm not entirely certain how sick I am as it seems to come and go, really. This morning I was feeling like warmed over death on toast. Right now, I'm okay - sinus headachey and generally achey and grumpy. Earlier I had the chills which made me think I might have a fever but I don't - if this cheap thermometer is to be believed at least.
I'm spacey and cold. I do not like this.
Not at all.
I would prefer to be able to do more of the thinking. I like the thinking. I dislike having to rewrite things four or five times in order to be able to be clear.
Bleh.
I'm not entirely certain how sick I am as it seems to come and go, really. This morning I was feeling like warmed over death on toast. Right now, I'm okay - sinus headachey and generally achey and grumpy. Earlier I had the chills which made me think I might have a fever but I don't - if this cheap thermometer is to be believed at least.
I'm spacey and cold. I do not like this.
Not at all.
I would prefer to be able to do more of the thinking. I like the thinking. I dislike having to rewrite things four or five times in order to be able to be clear.
Bleh.
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 07:46 pm (UTC)Since nobody wanted to know...
Date: 2008-02-27 08:32 pm (UTC)Beriberi is caused by a lack of thiamine (vitamin B1). It is common in people whose diet consists mainly of polished white rice, which is very low in thiamine because the thiamine-bearing husk has been removed. It is also seen in chronic alcoholics with an inadequate diet, as well as being a rare side effect of gastric bypass surgery. If a baby is mainly fed on the milk of a mother who suffers from thiamine deficiency then that child may develop beriberi.
The disease has been seen traditionally in people in Asian countries (especially in the 19th century and before), due to those countries' reliance on white rice as a staple food. Beri-beri is a nutritional disorder caused by deficiency of vitamin B charactarized by damage to nerves and heart; general symptoms include loss of appetite and feeling of lassitude.
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:41 pm (UTC)Soon you crave bannanas and will have a desire to seek out the psychotropic tubers I tricked Trish into seeding the Earth with!
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*Hug* Sorry, sick sucks. I'm wondering if we've all got varriations of the same thing going on right now.
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:45 pm (UTC)Nooooo!
Yeah. It sucks. There seem to be a lot of variations on the illness wandering around.
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:50 pm (UTC)Your icon rocks!
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:51 pm (UTC)I hope I feel better soon too.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:05 pm (UTC):(
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:08 pm (UTC)And the spacer pain will get better, btw. The first week is the worst. It gets a lot better even after the first few days.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:11 pm (UTC)I know it'll all be worth it in the end.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 08:07 pm (UTC)And there are flus with names now? Or at least commonly known ones? Bleh.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 08:17 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flu has some interesting general reading, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1#Terminology discusses how flu strains are named.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 08:26 pm (UTC)(Although, wouldn't I be pretty familiar with any given Australian after the licking?)
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:37 pm (UTC)(Though I hear some people, Australian or otherwise, are into casual licking, which is great for them, but really not my thing. There are even whole licking parties. Ugh.)
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Date: 2008-02-27 09:29 pm (UTC)Licking parties. Wow. I really need to not incorporate that into game design as a minigame in this particular project, even if it would be really funny...
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Date: 2008-02-27 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 08:06 pm (UTC)Well, take care and get better!
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:09 pm (UTC)Ugh.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:16 pm (UTC)The "blarg my head doesn't work right" thing really sucks. I send you much sympathy. Lots of rest and liquids! You know what you doing.
FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:17 pm (UTC)If you're going to greet us as programs...
Date: 2008-02-27 08:25 pm (UTC)END OF LINE.
Get well soon!
Re: If you're going to greet us as programs...
Date: 2008-02-27 08:26 pm (UTC)You're right. But I'm not a big fan of the MCP.
Re: If you're going to greet us as programs...
Date: 2008-02-27 08:27 pm (UTC)But hey. You have to love a movie with Captain Sheridan _and_ Londo Mollari.
;)
Re: If you're going to greet us as programs...
Date: 2008-02-27 08:30 pm (UTC)Yes. Yes I do.
Which is just odd to think about the way paths cross and all.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 11:34 pm (UTC)OMFG TRON *fangirls*Ahem.
Have you tried running an anti-virus program?Ahem. ahem.
Get well soon. :D
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Date: 2008-02-28 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-28 02:58 am (UTC)Well, I'll be okay, sweetie. Tired, though.
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Date: 2008-02-28 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-28 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-28 05:20 pm (UTC)