So. Ten days ago, I came down with a head cold. Pretty sure it’s the same head cold Mel got five days prior. I battled through it, courageously bitching and moaning and hating life.
Except it never quite “went away.”
This morning, after feeling better than I had in days Tuesday, I woke to my sinuses swollen and completely plugged, coughing up what felt like quarts of greyish green shit, and with a rock hard lump at the base of my throat. Dizzy, feverish, I called in to work and begrudgingly dusted off my damn insurance card. I hate going to the doctor. It’s my last resort.
I would like to state that my first choice was really, really poor. If you’re in North Dallas, just don’t even bother going here. My review on there says it all. I cancelled my appointment, drove literally 200 yards to a Care Now, and was seen without an appointment in about 45 minutes. Sure enough: Seems a bacterial sinusitis and minor bronchitis had decided to set up shop when my body fought off the cold virus. UGH. But hey, at least the doc told me my blood pressure was good, and I didn’t have pneumonia, which was my first fear.
Spent most of today dizzy and sick and cratered on the recliner, sucking down water, soup, and low-carb ice cream. (They make this now! It’s just available in vanilla at my local store, but fuck it, ICE CREAM FOR MY DIET FUCK YES. Perfect for my throat. Totally medicinal, you see.) Antibiotics seem to have kicked in fast, as my sinuses no longer feel like a jackbooted 300 lb Nazi is standing with both of his heels on my face – still a bit dizzy, tho.
Then I remembered I hadn’t done a comic for Thursday yet.
So this is what happens.
Apologies. Will try to make Friday’s comic a lot better.
Although the vast majority of Fox News’ content is just… ugh*, I thought this was pretty fucking funny.
* Don’t worry, I also feel the same way about NBC News, MSNBC, The Drudge Report, Infowars, and the vast majority of the HuffPo. But Fox News really is pretty damned egregious.
The news needs more comedy sketches.
I love the gun joke fillers. But I have an unhealthy love of puns to begin with.
I hope that is the Eben Pun Patrol biting his ear and being ever kitty vigilant.
Man. Yesterday I got to wondering when Claire was going to show up with another of her awful puns, and it turns out to be a two-fer kind of day. Thank you. And don’t die of teh ick, that would be bad.
You gotta watch out for Sugar Alcohols in “low-carb” ice-cream, depending on how your body reacts to them. Having been in keto for two and a half years, and down 125lbs, let me tell you that anything that is advertised as low-carb generally isn’t. You can easily make your own real low carb ice cream using heavy cream. It’s good stuff, and actually low carb.
The Breyer’s stuff seems to be legit so far.
Just don’t eat too much of that ice cream, sorbitol is a laxative.
Not meaning to get too graphic, but our bodies do well with a “cleanse” when we’re sick. It clears the excess germs and helps our bodies’ immune function. Our bodies are pretty freakin’ amazing “knowing” how to get rid of the ick…hence when our insides seem to turn to liquid and come out all the orifices and spike the temps. As icky as it is, it’s an efficient way of removing it from our bodies. If we help it along instead of taking meds to back it all up, it clears faster. Though, sometimes life-function overrides the common sense. I don’t have the luxury of staying home with a cold…Dayquil is my friend at work and so is Nyquil before work days.
Have to agree with the “clean out” approach on indigestion. Best response to traveller’s tummy / Delhi Belly / Aztec Two-step / Pol Pot potty trot is to eat nothing, shun the little grey pills and let it all blow through for 24 hours, then rinse with Coca Cola. Seriously, that shit’ll kill just about anything. 0.069 molar phosphoric acid bath of DOOM! If you take the congestives and keep eating, you’ll have the squirties for a week or more.
JL:
All is forgiven. Get well soon.
Glad you are on the mend. Feel better soon
For chest and sinus congestion and pain you need guaifenesin and Wild Turkey.
Sinusitus sucks righteously. Been there, done that, far, far too many times.
Get healthy!
You said “Opanki” ! Ain’tchu cute! Very good really. 😀
*pinches yer cheek*
Well, this whole Tactical Rifles ordeal helped me find this site, and I must say, I am hooked. I just wasted an entire day of work reading the archive. Well done! Tax dollars hard at work right here, yessir.
On a side note, as soon as I saw Alex, the first person I thought about was indeed Kassi Karry, who in fact works at my local gun shop, so I was glad to see the connection was solidified somewhere along the way. Keep it up, love what you do!
Gun puns seem to be your stock in trade. But I would never wish to see you muzzled for that. ‘Cause they are a barrel of laughs.
I have been getting asked for a login and password to access ftf all last night and this morning. No mas, por favor! No mas!
What happened to the site? the RSS feed prompts me for a password 🙁
That happened to me too – if you ever go for closed membership, please warn us. glad you’re back and hope you’re better soon, My wife has had the whole works and is on cipro now. I’ve just had a taste and it’s no fun at all!
Looks like perhaps the 1st day since the inception without an official update? Say it ain’t so!
Hope not. Been a good run so far…
There was an update posted to the FaceBook page while I did mighty battle with the hosting service (which was what the unexpected password lock was from). Now that we’re back online, it will be uploaded shortly. 🙂