Woman-Flu
Posted on | December 15, 2008 | 9 Comments
Very little sleep last night. Wife and daughter have colds. Daughter not too bad but wife ‘at death’s door’ apparently.
Last night she woke up and started groping noisily around her bedside locker for Strepsils. She found them eventually and rattled the rattly blister-pack trying to get one out, eventually succeeding. Then she dropped the Strepsil onto the floor and I heard it roll under the bed where the dust-bunnies live. Undeterred by fluffy nastiness, she fumbled about trying to find the missing Strepsil. After what seemed like hours, she gave up and went back to the blister-pack.
Rattle… crinkle… rattle… plunk. She dropped the blister-pack on the floor (Strepsil blister-packs hitting a wooden floor make quite an annoying noise at three AM). Cue much blind scrabbling about for blister-pack, rattling and skittering it around on the floor all the time. She finally found it, extracted a second Strepsil (after more rattling) and popped it in her mouth.
At last. Some peace and quiet.
FX: Suck, chew, Strepsil clunking against teeth, etc.
Aaaarrrggghhhhh!
If you’re interested, my body is, so far, valiantly fighting off the nasty little cold bugs. That may be because it’s so tensed that nothing wants to live there.
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Gerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and deride my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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And to think that Strepsils don’t even help….
Hope peace will return to your house soon! :)
Thanks B. I’m afraid my body lost the fight against wife’s cold-bug onslaught so peace is unlikely. Needless to say, I am bearing-up in a manly and stout manner. Stiff (and snotty) upper lip.
Oh dear – I hate those noises at that time in the morning. Well actually I hate those crinkly crackly noises at any time of the day but even so – this whole national cold thing is a pain in the bum – hope you all get well soon.
Get well soon. My teeth have fallen out from sucking all those Soothers sweets and I never had the anti-flu jab offered by my workplace, so I’m now suffering with the rest.
Bollix, isn’t it?
Merry Xmas to all of you!
RM: Bless your lurex socks. Hope you’re feeling better too.
Ister: A bollix indeed (the situation, not you).
One of you need the sofa.
Clarissa: Damn straight. And I know who.
The first time I read this I was feeling a bit smug as I didn’t have it either….but my boss did…and she didn’t stay at home … I’m just about coming out the other side of it now – how are you doing??
Beth: On the mend. Face has stopped hurting from blocked sinuses. Even my teeth hurt at the height of the thing. I feel better that (seemingly) everyone else suffered too – misery really does love company (just not in the bed at 3AM).