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Being ill ain't so bad

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I've been off work for 9 days now with bronchitis brought on by flu. I'm on steroids and anti-biotics and I'm feeling useless and bored sitting at home. My lungspan is so small I can barely walk to the kitchen and back without coughing. Basically I feel awful...

... awful that is, until I found something on my DVD shelf, the Led Zep DVD. 5 hours of prime live Led Zep genius, some of the footage unseen before. So I whack it on the machine and hook it up to my stereo (1960s Philips speakers through a modern Denon amp) and now I'm at the concert! Currently watching 'Since I've been Loving you' live at Madison Square Garden and you've never seen anything like it. I love this, it has done more to improve my mood than all the drugs I've been taking all week! Sweet momma, I don't think that's right!

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Originally posted by Starrman
it has done more to improve my mood than all the drugs I've been taking all week! Sweet momma, I don't think that's right!
Has this DVD undergone clinical trials to assertain side-effects, or compatability with your prescribed medications?
In your present condition, anything stronger than the Carpenters is potentially harmful.

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Originally posted by catfoodtim
Its a nasty dose, my condolences. Keep warm and drink lots of tea would be my advice. I'm just back after the same, thought mine was brought on by sinusitis. A hefty 12 days off work!

Unfortuntely I had no Led Zeppelin dvd, 1960's speakers nor amplifier.

I had to make do with Dr Phil, Noel Edmunds and a nasal spray that I suspect consisted solely of malt vinegar.
Dr Phil?? Oooh.... my condolences.....

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Originally posted by Starrman
I've been off work for 9 days now with bronchitis brought on by flu. I'm on steroids and anti-biotics and I'm feeling useless and bored sitting at home. My lingspan is so small I can barely walk to the kitchen and back without coughing. Basically I feel awful...

... awful that is, until I found something on my DVD shelf, the Led Zep DVD. 5 hours of p ...[text shortened]... han all the drugs I've been taking all week! Sweet momma, I don't think that's right!
Put one speaker up to each lung, then turn it up to 11. Ought to clear you out in no time.

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Originally posted by Moldy Crow
Put one speaker up to each lung, then turn it up to 11. Ought to clear you out in no time.
Actually that's not such a bad idea....

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Originally posted by Starrman
I've been off work for 9 days now with bronchitis brought on by flu. I'm on steroids and anti-biotics and I'm feeling useless and bored sitting at home. My lungspan is so small I can barely walk to the kitchen and back without coughing. Basically I feel awful...

... awful that is, until I found something on my DVD shelf, the Led Zep DVD. 5 hours of p ...[text shortened]... han all the drugs I've been taking all week! Sweet momma, I don't think that's right!
I spent yesterday lying on my futon coughing up black and red goo with only RHP for company. Eventually I was reduced to reading complex analysis textbooks and watching 'Waiting for Guffman' for the nth time.

The flu has a long incubation period; it would be hilarious if you got it off the bowler.

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Originally posted by royalchicken
I spent yesterday lying on my futon coughing up black and red goo with only RHP for company. Eventually I was reduced to reading complex analysis textbooks and watching 'Waiting for Guffman' for the nth time.

The flu has a long incubation period; it would be hilarious if you got it off the bowler.
You shizznit! I bet it was you, Mel got it that night and she held the bowler too!

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Originally posted by Starrman
You shizznit! I bet it was you, Mel got it that night and she held the bowler too!
Send her my apologies. I'm still feeling a bit [excretal] though, so for yourself you can choose between my commiserations and my jeering at those similarly unfortunate.

Your choice should be based on the possibility that our diseases have a common ancestor, namely that the hat was infected when I bought it, versus the possibility that I was pre-infected and the was hat a mere agent of my mayhem-spreading.

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Originally posted by royalchicken
Send her my apologies. I'm still feeling a bit [excretal] though, so for yourself you can choose between my commiserations and my jeering at those similarly unfortunate.

Your choice should be based on the possibility that our diseases have a common ancestor, namely that the hat was infected when I bought it, versus the possibility that I was pre-infected and the was hat a mere agent of my mayhem-spreading.
Hmm... I'll go with the hat being infected... for now...

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Originally posted by Starrman
I've been off work for 9 days now with bronchitis brought on by flu. I'm on steroids and anti-biotics and I'm feeling useless and bored sitting at home. My lungspan is so small I can barely walk to the kitchen and back without coughing. Basically I feel awful...

... awful that is, until I found something on my DVD shelf, the Led Zep DVD. 5 hours of p ...[text shortened]... han all the drugs I've been taking all week! Sweet momma, I don't think that's right!
Jesis, did you record that cover while you were sick?
9 days off is a long time for flu, you ever do the
zinc lozenge and vitamin C thing? Its supposed to cut the
sick time in half.

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*Sigh* Although, I have yet to fall prey to the flu or anything that remotely qualifies as an illness (Except for the regular rigamerol of allergies... but that's pretty normal....) but however, quite a few of my family members have. I was fortunate to have skipped out on that. However, what's more miserable than being sick from what I find, it's worse when they're a bunch of computer geeks and are insistant on using the computer as much as I do. So the surface of the keyboard had more viruses and bugs on it than Windows ever had and of course, I was the poor sucker that had to clean that up everytime I had to use them. And considering I have 5 computers I have to clean over and over again, this task was really starting to annoy me and of course, brought on said misery. *Sigh* -_-;;; So as miserable as you are, some of the non-sick people sometimes have it a bit worse. And oh yeah... it wasn't limited to computer cleaning too.

~The MCP