A different shade of ill

[andrewducker]

There's a cold going around, and I was feeling pretty good about not having picked it up from one of the various people I know who've had it.

Until three o'clock this morning, that is, when I was wandering to the toilet and hit my bedroom door-frame.

Admittedly, I'm not at my most ept when I've just woken at 3am, but while brushing against the door clumsily on my past is fairly normal, smacking into it isn't.

Especially when I did the same with the bathroom door.

And then turned around, got a fairly horrific bout of dizziness from the spin, and realised that my inner ear is refusing to play ball.

On the one hand, this is fairly amusing, in a "watching myself from outside" kinda way.

On the other, I have so much work to do right now it's not true.

I'm _hoping_ that this is a short-term thing my body is in mid-fight with, and that I feel sufficiently better by midday to make it into work.

In the mean time, moving very slowly indeed and sitting/lying still seems to work. If I could teleport into the office I'd probably be fine.

Comments

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Man flu can be terribly disabling.

[andrewducker]

Bah! This isn't man-flu - I have no sniffles, or sweats, nor is my nose attempting to convert itself into a shower.

In fact, if I could work from home, I'd be doing it right now.

This just frustrating and amusing.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Man dizziness - worse still! :)

[andrewducker]

Dammit! The women-folks are ganging up on me!

I feel like one of those sickly zebras being separated from the herd by the hunting lionesses...

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Yeh, where's bohemiancoast when you need her??

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

:-) even the men that are, in all other respects, total girls, get the 'man flu' rather than the 'mild sniffle'. Strange, eh?

[andrewducker]

Not true, actually - I get occasional sniffles. I just don't post about them, complain about them particularly, or post about them on LJ :-P

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

ah, now I was talking in the general, not specifically saying you actually were one of these girly blokes. Cos you aren't really :-)

see me, I'm so macho that I don't even *get* sniffles ;-)