Ugh.

[devilgrrl]

What the frak, body, what the frak? Can you just not manage to get better? Really, I get about a week of feeling so-so and then, boom, it's back to la la la, I feel like ass. Steven having a cold does not, in any way, shape, or form, mean that you need to join the crowd. He's an adult, he can have a cold all by himself.

I realize I work with little kids and that they are little germ factories, but for God's sake, I was my hands every 15 seconds. With anti-bacterial soap, no less! That kills germs, got it? Not encourages them to take up root.

My sinuses are not for rent nor are they storage. Stop fill them up with goo. While we're on the subject, neither are my lungs, though you seem to think they're party central for post nasal drip.

I appreciate the whole coughing to evict thing, but in order to do that, it needs to be productive, not this all bark, not bite shit you've been doing.

Don't you think eight and a half weeks of malaise is a little excessive? You're really overachieving this year. A week would have been sufficient, two excessive, but 8? What do you think you have? The Hanta virus?

Let me remind you if I am out sick, I do not get paid. If I do not get paid, you get nothing but Chips Ahoy. No fresh greens, no protein, nada. I won't be able to afford it. And, since you've decided you don't like the binders, vitamins are out of the question.

I appreciate that you rarely get the flu. Honestly. I'll even get over having it on my honeymoon because you so rarely get it. But really, enough of the colds and bronchitis and sinus infections. I'm sure you've used up your allotment for the rest of the winter.

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[miss-tina.livejournal.com]

Stress, especially constant stress, can wipe out your immune system and make you VERY susceptible to pretty much everything you come into contact with (on kids, door handles, shopping carts, etc). Keep it up and you can end up with cancer and heart disease and autoimmune disorders, and other crap. Not trying to scare you and I KNOW this situation isn't your fault. I just hope you and Steve can work out a plan to get out (even if it's a 3-month or 6-month plan or whatever, make a plan).

There's also a MUCH higher incidence of immune problems when people live in basements. Even in my own experience, I lived in a basement only one time in my life (and refused to after that), I was sick the entire year I was there.

And yeah, your diet definitely has a lot to do with it. Of course, you're kind of in a rock & a hard place. :/

I wish I had some magic wand I could use to take all your sick and stress and bad stuff away. :(
I can give you a long-distance/internet hug though! *big monster hugs*

[maa3120.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

And - stop using antibacterial soap. Yes, it kills the bad germs dead, but if your body isn't able to make antibodies against the bad germs (which it does by being exposed to them in smallish doses, like you'd get if you only used regular soap), then eventually the bad germs will win their battle to get into your body and they will celebrate by making you feel like shit.

Look at that - I HAVE learned something in immunology this semester! *eyeroll*

Feel better.

[devilgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yay for learning.

I generally avoid AB soap, but at work it's that, the stuff I'm allergic to, or no soap. Here, I just use the dish soap we have, Nature's Something or Another. I'm indefinitely covered in bleach solution, as well. Not fun.

These are like viking germs. They're totally having a raiding party in my chest.

[devilgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yea, we're in the damned if we do, damned if we don't category. I was checking out caregiver support sites and it's scary how high stress it is... Not that I didn't know that, but still. It sucks.

This is beyond my usual tendency to be high stress on my own.

Basement living is not all it's cracked up to be, though it beats being upstairs.

I appreciate the e-hug :)