You know you're under the weather when...

[davidgillon]

... it takes you almost a week to realise you're under the weather.

Actually it's a little more complex than that. I realised I was a little off last Friday, and I was really off in town on Saturday, I couldn't manage to push the chair back to the car - I could manage the level bits, but not the uphill. Chest bug + pushing appears to be a bad combination, but luckily I could still manage to waddle behind.

But it took me until last night, about six days in, to realise that no, I wasn't having a bunch of lazy days, I literally couldn't walk across the room without leaving myself out of breath, and it wasn't so much I was losing myself in relatively low level stuff, as it was all the brain I had. It seems to be a bit better today, but it's definitely taken the wind out of my sails.
 

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[sovay]

... it takes you almost a week to realise you're under the weather.

*hugs*

I'm glad you're resting up. Have you got a bug, or is this just one of the ways your stamina fluctuates?

[davidgillon]

Thanks. It seems to be a chest bug, without anything too noxious apart from shortness of breath, lack of energy, and lack of brain. I mentioned it on FB, and two friends who live locally say they've got the same, so clearly it's a bug that's doing the rounds.

[yhlee]

*support support* I hope you continue better.

[davidgillon]

Thanks. I'm restocked on cold and flu type remedies now, so I should survive, but I could do without the first cold of winter arriving on the wings of autumn!

[jesse_the_k]

That's definitely the pits.

Worse yet is that reflex to assume that we're lazy. If only we could eliminate that with a simple button push.

Here's a virtual instance of the universal solvent chicken soup.

[davidgillon]

I did buy actual chicken soup (it was on offer) when I ventured out for extra cold remedies ;)

[lilysea]

Gah! :(

Hope you feel better soon! ^_^

Yeah, as a culture, we don't talk much about how colds genuinely make us mentally tired/exhausted due to cytokines and Sickness Behaviour...

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I have a weird thing that I do sometimes when I develop a new symptom / reduced capacity where I go "Huh, I guess I always had [thing] but I just never noticed before".

I think its partly because colds/viruses etc impair thinking...

[davidgillon]

Thanks, my mind keeps trying to insist I'm getting better, even though yesterday repeatedly demonstrated I have no energy, and featured the first (and only, so far) sneezing fit.

Clearly this thing still has a few days to go.