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Just a Common Cold and Old Sayings
On Saturday I had a headache. On Sunday too. Monday it continues, but too the migraine stage; so bad I totally collapse after work. Tuesday I do the same again. Wednesday I'm like death warmed up, wondering around work like a zombie; my throat is like the bottom of a cocky-cage. Thursday I'm at home, with head feeling like a member of the All Blacks has kicked it several times, now drinking fluids by the litre and forcing myself to sleep with mouthfuls of codeine. Friday I drag my sorry corpse to the doctor, who promptly perscribes a course of antibiotics, more painfillers and off work until next Wednesday. *sigh* Not the best way to start a new job, eh? This really is the sickest I've been since I caught dengue fever.
Trying to put a bright spin on it all, I am reminded of when a friend came around to visit looking very ill. "Whatever's wrong?" I inquired. "Oh, just a common cold", she responded. "It started on Monday but has gotten much worse. I've been following the old saying: feed a fever and starve a cold". "Ummm... I think you've that around the wrong way." Of course, it isn't so much feeding a cold that can defeat it, but by constantly refreshing one's liquids. Because a fever operates with a virus and a cold with a bacteria the old saying makes sense. However, I therefore hearby rename the old saying to the significantly more intuitive: "Starve a fever and drown a cold".
Trying to put a bright spin on it all, I am reminded of when a friend came around to visit looking very ill. "Whatever's wrong?" I inquired. "Oh, just a common cold", she responded. "It started on Monday but has gotten much worse. I've been following the old saying: feed a fever and starve a cold". "Ummm... I think you've that around the wrong way." Of course, it isn't so much feeding a cold that can defeat it, but by constantly refreshing one's liquids. Because a fever operates with a virus and a cold with a bacteria the old saying makes sense. However, I therefore hearby rename the old saying to the significantly more intuitive: "Starve a fever and drown a cold".
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Hope that you feel better soon, Lev.
And I could never remember if is feed a fever, starve a cold but it never seems to work.
Feed yourself up on garlic, horse raddish and chilli and things tend to get better soon enough. :)
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Still feeling horse today, Lev?
Sorry, that's all I've got today... Will think of more horse flu related joeks tomorrow.
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Not to be whiney, but isn't this flogging the proverbial?
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Not a bad idea, if he delivered by the litre.
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Ahh, you're right. Serves me right for looking up out-of-date material.
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Hey Doc, here's a query. If I just have a cold, why have I been perscribed antibiotics?
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Btw, the expression is "Feed a cold, starve a fever."
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Only a week or so, but it was pretty interesting. It is exotic, but not where I was at the time; indeed it was very common.
Yuck
There are some perfectly horrid viruses around this year, get better.
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Damn; I can't find that IM data among all the quotes ;-)
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