Greetings Programs...

[lithera]

I 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.

Comments

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

O craps. I've been getting that too, plus headache. I thought it might just be poor nutrition or something but veggies and vitamins haven't shifted it. Do you think it's mono or beriberi or something?

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, I certainly don't think it is beriberi because I have no idea what it is.

Since nobody wanted to know...

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

From Wikipedia...

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.

[uberdude.livejournal.com]

[nerd]
Soon you crave bannanas and will have a desire to seek out the psychotropic tubers I tricked Trish into seeding the Earth with!
[/nerd]

*Hug* Sorry, sick sucks. I'm wondering if we've all got varriations of the same thing going on right now.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*shakes her fist at you*

Nooooo!

Yeah. It sucks. There seem to be a lot of variations on the illness wandering around.

[prairieflower.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you don't feel well. I hope you feel better soon!

Your icon rocks!

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I hope I feel better soon too.

[prairieflower.livejournal.com]

I hate that kind of sick where you can't concentrate and your head feels all muddy.

:(

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It isn't a lot of pain but just enough that it throws me off.

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.

[prairieflower.livejournal.com]

I hope so. Last night, I really thought that was it. I was thinking I could totally handle it. Then this morning came. Whoa.

I know it'll all be worth it in the end.

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

M and I've probably got Brisbane flu A, but I'm pretty darn sure you didn't catch it from us. OR DID YOU????!!!?!?!?!?

[lithera.livejournal.com]

That would be hard as I haven't seen you guys in awhile.

And there are flus with names now? Or at least commonly known ones? Bleh.

[ladymeag.livejournal.com]

Yep. They track the kinds so that they can get them with the vaccines. This one? Not in the last vaccine.

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Pretty much every flu has a name; human flus are normally named after the city they're first uniquely identified in (Brisbane type A, really "A/Brisbane/10/2007"), non-human flus normally just by an indicator of the genetic subtype (really protein subtypes) (H5N1, aka "bird flu"; "Brisbane" flu, for reference, is a H3N2 flu). Flus can be further divided into clades and subclades.

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.

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I met some folks from Brisbane, Australia last week. Thank goodness I didn't lick them!

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Never, ever lick an Australian you are not familiar with. I cannot stress this enough.

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Dear god, that was a narrow miss... thank you so much for bringing this danger to my attention!

(Although, wouldn't I be pretty familiar with any given Australian after the licking?)

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Oh, you'd be familiar with them... and everyone who's ever licked that Australian before!

(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.)

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Note to self: continue to not lick celebrities.

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...

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Pull a Rockstar North and make it a secret minigame!

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

*cackle*

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

YOU MUST DO THIS THING

[fireballof3.livejournal.com]

poopy.

Well, take care and get better!

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I hope so!

Ugh.

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Nooo! Feel better!

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.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

MOVE ZIG!

If you're going to greet us as programs...

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

You really should close your post with:

END OF LINE.


Get well soon!

Re: If you're going to greet us as programs...

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I should.

You're right. But I'm not a big fan of the MCP.

Re: If you're going to greet us as programs...

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

MCP was teh shiznit!

But hey. You have to love a movie with Captain Sheridan _and_ Londo Mollari.

;)

Re: If you're going to greet us as programs...

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Yes. Yes I do.

Which is just odd to think about the way paths cross and all.

Re: If you're going to greet us as programs...

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

Hollywood is a deeply weird place.

[littledrow.livejournal.com]

OMG I love your icon!!! SQUEE!!!

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

OMFG TRON *fangirls*

Ahem.

Have you tried running an anti-virus program?

Ahem. ahem.

Get well soon. :D

[yellowseptember.livejournal.com]

I think you've probably got us to blame for your poor health. I'm sorry, sweetie. Little Miss Em was sick about 24 hours after you left. Feel better soon. Take care of yourself.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Awwwww.

Well, I'll be okay, sweetie. Tired, though.

[candidgamera.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon! That's an order! ;)

[elscoobysnacko.livejournal.com]

yeah hopefully you don't got the flu that's wrecking havoc down there now if you had gotten the vacine in canada you'd be covered cause the docs up here guessed correctly. Anyway get better

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Nope. No flu, I think.