I'm so damn pissed off.

[snowy ciara]

I'll bring you some cold stone creamery and I'll get my mum to make you chicken soup. Cause my cooking sometimes..... Well, you know we want you better.

 

[Marquis]

Ice cream? Why not just give him arsenic?

 

[graceanne]

Ice cream? Why not just give him arsenic?

Maybe that's the idea.

Snowy? What are you mixing into the icecream?

 

[Betticus]

Hot Toddy. Maybe that would help?

And a backrub.

 

[Betticus]

12:30 pm.

The cat has now commited the nearly unforgivable crime of attacking my foot from her stealth launching point of under my bed as I was retreiving a pair of socks from my bedroom. Had to leap like a gazelle to keep from stepping on her.

Lungs are still only semi functional. Throat is sore, all hope is lost. Might as well send for the temple priests and the mummy wrapping guys.

 

[snowy ciara]

Ice cream? Why not just give him arsenic?

You do know they serve cold stuff besides ice cream, right?

 

[brioche]

i've often found that a largish chunk of chocolate, such as a Cadbury bunny or smowman, can really ease a sore throat. Just a suggestion.

NyQuil and DayQuil really rock too.

Apparently we might have some green tea around here but i'm too lazy to go searching.

brioche

 

[Betticus]

You do know they serve cold stuff besides ice cream, right?

Come pet me!

 

[brioche]

Come pet me!

If it makes you feel better, Betticus, my class is currently afflicted with some sort of virus that i don't have. First one kid was gone, came back, then another, then two, and then today, four were gone and a fifth went home after our spelling test with a fever of almost 100. Apparently her mother places waaaay too much importance on tests... keep the kid home for Chrissake, she's in Grade 1.

Anyway, they're all puking, and it's not my fault, because i specifically told the parents that a little bottle of hand sanitzer would be a good idea.

i've got news for them: even if i get it i'm not taking time off until the 13th day of school. That's Thursday. Otherwise my pay gets cut. i don't care if i'm puking. But currently i'm not, and here's hoping you're feeling better and i stay this way (well, except for the crappy allergies).

Now if only the nasty ones would get sick...

brioche

 

[Marquis]

You do know they serve cold stuff besides ice cream, right?

If one talks about bringing home "Cold Stone Creamery", is it not objectively reasonable to think said person is talking about ice cream?

Furthermore, no, I did not realize they serve cold stuff besides ice cream. Frozen yoghurt perhaps?

Finally, anything cold is bad for a person with a cold.

Reversed and remanded.

 

[brioche]

If one talks about bringing home "Cold Stone Creamery", is it not objectively reasonable to think said person is talking about ice cream?

Furthermore, no, I did not realize they serve cold stuff besides ice cream. Frozen yoghurt perhaps?

Finally, anything cold is bad for a person with a cold.

Reversed and remanded.

i thought you meant ice cream too.

Cold stuff is bad? This is a new one for me. How come?

 

[bluntforcemama]

If it makes you feel any better, i get all that shit too. i'm a teacher, and they give it to the teachers too.

Have you tried Airborne?http://a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/76905/200.jpg

 

[Betticus]

Myst always has the coolest avatars.

Never heard of that airborne stuff. Is it some kind of disinfectant that you can spray on children?

 

[graceanne]

Myst always has the coolest avatars.

Never heard of that airborne stuff. Is it some kind of disinfectant that you can spray on children?

You can spray disinfectant on children?

 

[brioche]

Have you tried Airborne?http://a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/76905/200.jpg

No, but i'm starting something called Cold Fx. It's preventative and reduces colds if you've already been exposed. There's also something that halts the virus from reproducing, which i don't have yet. My sister works at a drugstore so i get this shit at cost, and she tells me it works. i was going to put what was in it down, but it's too long. Suffice it to say it's from Panax quinquefolium, North American ginseng. It's two compounds in particular. i'll let you know if it works.

 

[Private_Label]

Washing and waterless hand sanitizers. One office I worked in had about 12 people (mostly women) and ever cold season we'd pass around the worst that anyone got... One year we got the clorox disifectant wipes and used them every day on stuff like telephone handsets, doorknobs and desktops and it seemed to reduce the amount and severity of the illnesses. You can even pour a little bleach in the dish washwater to help disinfect your plates, glasses and utensils. Just remember to rinse them well.

Any airborne stuff is in the form of droplets - the smaller the droplet, the longer it remains in the air (that includes air disinectants). A surgical Mask would work better at preventing airborne illnesses from attacking you.

Daddy Betticus, has the blood tests come back yet on your platelets and stuff? What did they say about your white blood cell count? A low WBC count would affect how severe and how long you are sick too.

In the mean time, I would suggest the hand sanitizers and wiping fdown surfaces with a weak bleach solution in your home, just so you don't keep reinfecting yourself.

 

[brioche]

Washing and waterless hand sanitizers. One office I worked in had about 12 people (mostly women) and ever cold season we'd pass around the worst that anyone got... One year we got the clorox disifectant wipes and used them every day on stuff like telephone handsets, doorknobs and desktops and it seemed to reduce the amount and severity of the illnesses. You can even pour a little bleach in the dish washwater to help disinfect your plates, glasses and utensils. Just remember to rinse them well.

Any airborne stuff is in the form of droplets - the smaller the droplet, the longer it remains in the air (that includes air disinectants). A surgical Mask would work better at preventing airborne illnesses from attacking you.

Daddy Betticus, has the blood tests come back yet on your platelets and stuff? What did they say about your white blood cell count? A low WBC count would affect how severe and how long you are sick too.

In the mean time, I would suggest the hand sanitizers and wiping fdown surfaces with a weak bleach solution in your home, just so you don't keep reinfecting yourself.

i don't think i'm getting it from airborne stuff - no one is coughing in my face etc. However i am constantly touching surfaces that the kids touch, and some of the kids are sick. Yes, i use Wet Ones antibacterial, yes i wash my hands often, yes i have mostly trained myself to keep my hands away from my face at all times. i even told the parents to have their kids bring in their own little sanitizing gels. However, there is no harm in taking something as a preventative measure in addition to doing all those things.
i stop at using bleach or disinfecting wipes because the kids eat in the classroom. There is no way i am using them on the desktops, because then i would have to rinse them with potable water, the logistics of which horrify me. Finally i'm not going to wear a surgical mask because i'm not Dr. brioche, i'm teacher brioche, and that's going way overboard. . . sorry if this sounds snippy - i just put my eye drops in and they sting like hell.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Some jackass that needs to be kicked in the nuts gave me some kind of cold. It feels like I have ebola in my lung. Or maybe the hanta virus. Could be black death.

This is what happens, I go the entire summer nice and healthy. School season starts up and BAM! Somebody's kid goes to school, gets the scarlet fever from some other kid and takes it home to daddy who then ferries that shit to work and shares it with me.

It's the price we pay for living in civilization.

 

[leanoir]

The one thing everyone keeps mentioning (other than Green Tea, which apparently I need to try) is hand sanitizers. I just wanted to make sure that people read the labels on those things and follow the directions. Most of them say you need to rub your hands briskly for AT LEAST a minute. I have some of the stuff, and it seems to work. But I know a lot of people that squeeze some on their hands and just rub it in like lotion. That doesn't do anything but make your hands smell nice.

 

[chris9]

I read an article on research on colds. They don't actually know how (or when) you get a cold. They did really evil things to their testers (like having them sit all wet in a draughty room after dropping viruses into their noses/eiyes/mouthes -the reference group got the virus put inside them, too, but could sit dry in a warm room). The result was that for every test they did, about half the people from either group got sick. They tested the 'hand-to-face' thing, too, and again, half of both groups (one wasn't able to touch their faces, all were playing cards with sick people who were encouraged to sneeze and cough on the cards) got sick.
The point is basically that even keeping all sterile, trying to block out all ways a cold could travel to us, it might work, it might as well not work.