I have this wheel hanging up in my cubicle at work… it comes in very handy when I need to diagnose something. Point the arrow to your symptom, and you’ll find out what illness/disease you may have, the appropriate medical term, the correct specialist to see, what to obsess about in the meantime, and what harmless condition you probably have after all.
Very handy indeed.
Well I could definitely use it this morning… if I had it here, I would point the arrow toward “headache,” “stuffy nose,” and, if available, “head going to explode.”
Because basically? I feel like crap.
I have an old-fashioned cold… I don’t think I have H1N1 or anything crazy like that… but still, I feel pretty awful. And since yesterday I was given strict orders from my co-workers not to come back to work until I was over whatever communicable disease I was carrying, I have decided to stay home.
I have homework to do, and there’s so much cleaning I could finally get around to now that I have a day off, but for the moment I’m trying to ignore all that. I am going to sleep… sleep until I wake up. How’s that for luxury?
What nice co-workers you have to order you to stay home! Take some Advil Cold & Sinus & sleep, sleep, sleep! Feel better cousin!
I’m at a point in my life where I welcome some pain. When I wake up each morning and have a pain or two or three or ad infinitum I know I’m alive!
As to luxury, sleep away…
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Feel better! Nice to meet you the other night 🙂
Good for you! People coming to work sick is the worst. Rest up!
Yuck! I think we’re fighting the same cold… only I don’t remember colds sucking this bad when we were younger. Maybe its because preggos can’t take any of the good meds.
I did make it to work (saving my sick days for h1n1, oh and having a baby) and one of my super sick, shouldn’t be at school kiddos touched my MOUTH with his SLOBBERY HAND! I must go bathe in Listerine now.
I did one day, ONE DAY, of pediatrics this month and ended up with the cold from hell! As a doctoring type person I am proud of you for not going to work to be the outbreak monkey. All my 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school and almost 3 years of residency boil down to this advice: Drink plenty of fluid, take 2 extra strength tylenol and wash your hands. Oh, and Grandma Brads would give you two red hots from the mason jar in the lazy-suzanne and pin a wash cloth with Vick’s on to your nightgown. Certainly can’t hurt.
I did one day, ONE DAY, of pediatrics this month and ended up with the cold from hell! As a doctoring type person I am proud of you for not going to work to be the outbreak monkey. All my 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school and almost 3 years of residency boil down to this advice: Drink plenty of fluid, take 2 extra strength tylenol and wash your hands. Oh, and Grandma Brads would give you two red hots from the mason jar in the lazy-suzanne and pin a wash cloth with Vick’s on to your nightgown. Certainly can’t hurt.
The other day I saw a wheel just like that one, but it was a diet selector. Point the arrow to whatever crappy foods you’re allowed to eat and it will tell you what diet you’re on. Would you like one to add to your cubicle?
And BTW, you’re not dying. You just can’t think of anything good to do.