Still ill

[lethargic_man]

Bah; temperature back up over 101°F overnight, and I feel, Lemsip notwithstanding, as bad as I did on Monday; so it's extremely unlikely I'm going to be going back to work for the rest of the week. (It's taken me over an hour to muster up the mental wherewithal merely to post this.)

I got ill like this at this time last year, and it feels like I do this every year or two (though a quick search of my mail archive suggests it's actually less often). If this keeps up, I've a nasty suspicion one of these bugs is going to carry me off fifty years hence, when my body is less resilient. Assuming I manage to reach that far in the first place, of course.

I just hope I'm back on my feet by Saturday afternoon, when there's a talk I really want to go to. (It's by Benjamin Pogrund, whose journalism during the sixties in South Africa played a key role in highlighting the injustices of the apartheid regime. He now lives in Israel, where he founded Yakar's Centre for Social Concern; and is, though he does not yet know it, a distant relative of mine (third cousin to my grandfather).

In other news, I've got confirmation from Limmud of the timetabling of my talks at this year's Limmud Conference. One of them is on the Shabbos afternoon, as I requested; the other they've put in the mortally-ill (i.e. not quite dead) dog slot, at 12:30 on Thursday, when a lot of people will already have left. Oh well, nothing I can (justifiably) do about it; I'll just have to hope people turn up for it.

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[bluepork.livejournal.com]

If its any consolation, my 3 year old niece (bless her) has somehow taken down her entire family - parents, uncle, aunt, g-parents and step-g-parent by catching a little sniffle on Saturday. Calpol seemed to help for her, but not for the rest of us!

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

I have period pain again. And I thought I got rid of it with that Chinese medicine and massage. I got more now also something have to put on my painful area. I continued my volunteer work despite the pain. I also got something for my sniffy whistly nose which may be also a cause of poor sleep. I do not have a cold or anything. It is just cold at night and outside that makes me sniff. I am sorry that you don't get better at the moment. Do you think you will be able to come to Assif? Where is that talk? Is that from the NNLS? I will look on the sheet.
I am thinking about coming to the work meeting tonight but if I do not feel that well maybe not.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Do you think you will be able to come to Assif?

Don't know yet.

Where is that talk? Is that from the NNLS?

Yes; I'm sure it will be on the weekly flier.

[qilora.livejournal.com]

you should have a refuah shelema :-(

"I've a nasty suspicion one of these bugs is going to carry me off fifty years hence"

chas v'shalom!


"I'll just have to hope people turn up for it."

*nods* i hope so also...

zei gezunt (that is an order)
- J.