Sunday, 8 April 2007

Blech

What does it mean when you have swollen glands? Is that a sign of a viral infection, or just a plain ol' cold?

Fuck, I feel miserable.

This is CG heading back to bed.

7 comments:

pingcat said...

Which glands???

Had mumps? Did you get a single dose vaccine for mumps as an adolescent? There was quite a news item about Mumps being an epidemic in Halifax as a result of young people only having had a single dose vaccine for mumps as a young person.

Anyway, if it persists, get yourself to the Doc. - no point in suffering ... The Doc can give you an expert opinion and a CBC (NOT the radio station) might give some hints as to the etiology of what is going on.

Quodlibet said...

Hey, I think I have a bit of the same thing. My solution every time - gargle with listorine. I swear it works. I think I did it 10 times today and I feel heaps better than when I woke up. I just started to get this yesterday. Try it and I hope it goes away quickly.

CanaGal said...

Pingcat: I think the only vaccine I received was for rubella. I have never had the mumps. I had the chicken pox in my early twenties and that wasNOT fun.
I have spent over 24 hours in bed and the fever broke yesterday...
Quod: yes, I am a listerine fan. I gargle with that and hot salt water...

pingcat said...

Glad to hear you are on the mend. I'm getting another cold and I am some ticked! Some people have told me to to try Cold-FX so I am and I think I will do the listerine thing too, although I DO use it when I brush my teeth. Very annoying especially since I just got rid of a cold about a week ago.

Anonymous said...

Your body is fighting viri and(or) bacteria.

Your Nodes are factories which jump into overdrive to ffight off the intruders.

Sjaak said...

A good grog will fix that!
Rum, citric accid, brown suger (not the 60ies stuff), and hot water... Tastes like sh*t but it works like a charm. My mum thought me that.

Old Dutch medicine!

CanaGal said...

yah, RDW: Sean makes me something like that - he calls it a "hot totty". It tastes like shit, but it makes me sleep...