Flu
Posted by Fiona Nevile in Cottage tales | 21 comments
Simpkin the cat attends the tailor of gloucester_Beatrix Potter
The last time that I got flu was several years ago when I’d actually paid for a flu jab! In that instance I had flu twice – each session lasting a week with one happy ‘well day’ in between. Since then I haven’t bothered with the jab.
I’ve been laid up with flu this weekend. It was so bad that I began to get a bit panicky on Saturday night, sharp stabbing pains that didn’t let up. Everything hurt from inside my ears to between my toes. Rocketing temperature and deep chills. I was taking Beechams Powders and used up the recommended allocation for the day. Perhaps ordinary paracetamol would have been better?
The Min Pins began to get a bit fed up too. As I tossed and turned they had what we call “a bad night a sea.” I could feel the tiny bodies scrabbling to find a quiet place to settle in the bed.
By Sunday things had improved and I’m much better today. Still in bed though, feeling pretty mouldy and fighting the MPs to get my feet on the hottie.
Whenever I’m ill in bed I think about that wonderful tale by Beatrix Potter The Tailor of Gloucester
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Hope you’re feeling much better now. No advice to add, I’m afraid, but just wanted to say thank you for inspiring me to read The Tailor of Gloucester! There were a few Beatrix Potter tales that had been my own favourites and that I read to my kids all the time, and others that we barely opened, that being one of them. Now I see what I was missing! What a delight! And it reminds me of one of my favourite stories, The Elves and the Shoemaker.
Sorry to hear you’ve been unwell. Real Flu is so uncomfortable. Aching joints that you can’t get relief from no matter how many pill’s you take!
The Taylor of Gloucester is a real gem, my favourite story at Christmas. Have you seen the BBC adaptation. It’s well worth watching especially when you’re laid up with Flu!
Get well soon Fiona, I hope the flu doesn’t trigger another bad patch with the ME.
Feel better soon Fiona!
I hope that you recover soon! I just saw the episode of Downton Abbey in which people have the Spanish flu. I hope that you don’t feel as miserable as that. Drink lots of tea and eat fresh fruit!
Hope you’re feeling a bit brighter today Fiona, only had Flu once in my life – lasted 3 days, hope I never get it again.
And isn’t the very worst thing about a dose of flu the all too real risk of putting on a few lbs of “flu-flab?”
BUT HOW? You can’t eat; you drag yourself out of bed to go to the loo every other day because the pain of trying to actually sit up in or even to try and roll out of bed is worse than “risking…” a full bladder; you don’t stop shaking except for those hours when you’re burning up. Worse, you can’t face anything to drink that doesn’t smell of hot lemon and only then if its interspersed with two brufen four hourly. Where does flu-flab come from?
Oh you’ve set me off on my flu-flab diatribe now Fiona. You must be feeling like hell, but you’re doing all the right things to stay warm and comfortable and see out this storm. Best of luck and hope you soon return to good health.
Amalee
(currently remembering the tortuous hours on that damned exercise bike after swine flu 2009)
Get well soon Fiona, madcats suggestion sounds really good, we have a variation on that, soak glace cherries in brandy for a couple of weeks, drain, then dip the cherries in chocolate, wonderful but you have to watch the driving afterwards!!
Anyway the brandy that remains keeps really well in the fridge, pour some into a heatproof glass, blast it in the microwave until it boils, carefully remove it from the microwave and shake in as much lemon (or lime) juice from a bottle as you like and drink while still hot…
Works wonders for a cold and hopefully for the flu.
…….. and don’t forget to clean your teeth (after all that honey and lemon!) GWS x
Sorry to hear your poorly….Get Well Soon Fiona!!!
I think if you take enough of Madcat’s remedy you’ll be past caring whether you have flu or not!!!
I can say that I am one of the lucky ones that can say she has never had flu…nor do I ever want it!!!
Take care xx