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I feel like a kamikazi pilot. The writing thing, whatever it is, still isn't really in me...but I'm running a temp of 102, and I hurt all over. So I might as well write, even though it will no doubt suck.
I don't know if it's the flu (although I had the shot) or a really nasty sinus infection. It could be either one, because those are the only two illnesses that hurt like this. Anything, everything that hurts at all, is now magnified ten times or more. My arms. My shoulders. The skin on my face and head (feels like a sunburn). My chest. My hip joints. My legs. My feet. Everything. Not constantly, but in a constantly changing pattern, so I can't get used to it.
Pick up a dish and twist my wrist slightly as I do it, and it feels as if I've broken a bone. Bump a toe gently against a footrest, and it feels like I need traction. And the pain is that "sick" feeling kind, the kind that throbs and feels all wrong.
Last night when I got into bed my teeth were literally chattering, violently. I was shaking uncontrollably, and it felt as if I were plunged into the Arctic Ocean. Half an hour later I was covered with sweat and half-unconscious from the heat. But when Sebastian woke up calling for me at 11:50 last night, I was freezing again. It took me half an hour to calm him down and get him back to sleep.
Advil helps a bit, fortunately, and I just took some this morning.
So there. Some whining. What an entry.
I can say one thing about the current political situation: If John Kerry gets the nomination, I can guarantee that he will LOSE, and lose big. Because he's already proven that he'll roll over for the GOP in what should by all rights have been the most important issue in the world for him: betraying American servicemen, just as he was betrayed, by sending them into an unjustified war of aggression. John Kerry has already become what he should hate most: a traitor to the American soldier.
And without self-respect or integrity, what chance does he have to beat Bush?
If he does get the nomination, and (as I predict) goes on to lose, I think that I will change my party registration to Republican. Not that I would ever VOTE for a Republican, but at least I would belong to a political party, as opposed to a bunch of pathetic straw men.
I don't know if it's the flu (although I had the shot) or a really nasty sinus infection. It could be either one, because those are the only two illnesses that hurt like this. Anything, everything that hurts at all, is now magnified ten times or more. My arms. My shoulders. The skin on my face and head (feels like a sunburn). My chest. My hip joints. My legs. My feet. Everything. Not constantly, but in a constantly changing pattern, so I can't get used to it.
Pick up a dish and twist my wrist slightly as I do it, and it feels as if I've broken a bone. Bump a toe gently against a footrest, and it feels like I need traction. And the pain is that "sick" feeling kind, the kind that throbs and feels all wrong.
Last night when I got into bed my teeth were literally chattering, violently. I was shaking uncontrollably, and it felt as if I were plunged into the Arctic Ocean. Half an hour later I was covered with sweat and half-unconscious from the heat. But when Sebastian woke up calling for me at 11:50 last night, I was freezing again. It took me half an hour to calm him down and get him back to sleep.
Advil helps a bit, fortunately, and I just took some this morning.
So there. Some whining. What an entry.
I can say one thing about the current political situation: If John Kerry gets the nomination, I can guarantee that he will LOSE, and lose big. Because he's already proven that he'll roll over for the GOP in what should by all rights have been the most important issue in the world for him: betraying American servicemen, just as he was betrayed, by sending them into an unjustified war of aggression. John Kerry has already become what he should hate most: a traitor to the American soldier.
And without self-respect or integrity, what chance does he have to beat Bush?
If he does get the nomination, and (as I predict) goes on to lose, I think that I will change my party registration to Republican. Not that I would ever VOTE for a Republican, but at least I would belong to a political party, as opposed to a bunch of pathetic straw men.