Sick Of
Good goat times today. I am not feeling good though.
I know I’ve kept talking about dragging myself out despite not feeling well, but today that really was the case. My throat started hurting last night and tummy troubles. I wrapped my throat better in my blanket, that seemed to help. And emptied the tunny. I felt a bit better in the morning. But it was one of those ‘do I stay or do I go now’ things. I wanted to see the goats, and also I was out of vegetables. Which meant I wouldn’t be able to make soup. And I had a feeling I was going to need soup… so I decided to drag myself out the door and see how long I could make it at the goats and then go shopping. I felt fairly okay at the goats, stayed for a couple of hours which was nice. In hindsight I might should have stayed home. Now I am back home and my throat is hurting more (a lozenge helped for now though) and I’m feeling very tired and nauseated. I am starving but the thought of eating makes me want to throw up. Maybe I won’t be able to eat soup after all. D’oh!
In other news, my dad was sent to the hospital yesterday. He has corona. He’s back home and it sounds like he’s doing pretty okay. But I wonder now if he passed it on to me. He was visiting Friday. And it was not too long after that that he had his aphasia attack, or TIA. That lasted about a day, he was talknig normally Saturday, but he wasn’t feeling great, I think he said something about his chest too. Well on Sunday he got worse I guess and they werent to the er and he stayed there for a dayish. And he has the corona. I had a bit of a tingle in the throat the night before last and I mentioned feeling dizzy.. maybe dad had it brewing on Friday and passed it to me and I had it brewing for a couple of days. I don’t know. I also wondered if Jeanette might have passed her thing to me, although we didn’t se each other Thursday when I was last there, so the timing seems less plausible on that count.
But anyway. I’m not feeling super bad. Dad said I should call my doc, but you know me. If I have the rona or a flu or cold or stomach bug or whatever. Unless I start feeling dramatically worse, I just gotta get through it. This time I really do think I’ll have to stay home for the rest of the week… I really hope I’ll be okay by the weekend though. Mama is planning to make soup. You know I love mma’s homemade soup. The stuff I make is a weak substitute, I mean it fills my need but it’s not the same. So hopefully I can partake in the good stuff. I think whatever I have will get worse before it gets better, but right now it doesn’t feel like it’s anything especially serious. Hooves crossed.
Oh and the goats are good. We had some fun with treats and food and running around, them not me, and Jeanette and visitors and the feathers.
Now commence yelling at me in 3.. 2….1…..
11/12 2023
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You know, I’m not sure I’m comfortable with santa just checking is list twice. He’s super old, his eyesight must be terrible, like Lasse levels terrible. Is there even a system in place if feel like he’s is short-changing you? Is there somewhere you can go to object? What are your options if you feel you have unfairly been placed on the naughty list? He’s got all those elves, couldn’t one of them get a law degree and go over the whole thing?
Anyway. That’s just the delirium talking. Thank yuo everyone for the concern and advice. I just napped for a few hours. My throat is definitely worse nad I’m tired and kind of woozy. Not feeling super bad though, it feels like a regular head cold or flu or whatever. I’m going to try to eat something and see how I feel in the morning.
11/12 2023
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Hello hi goodmorning. Checking in. Still not feeling good, but not super bad. I had a big pot of soup last night and I enjoyed it very much. I was worried if it would stay in, but after eating that the nausea seems to have gone away. At least for now. So I think I’ll be having some more soup today thankyouverymuch. My throat is hurting and I’m feeling tired and woozy, but could be worse. Hanging in there. Napping and souping is the plan for the day.
12/12 2023
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Ugh. I’m starting to think this whole being sick thing isn’t actually a nice thing.
Feeling very tired and weak. Lifting arms hard. Typing restricted. Words.. slowing.. down. Must…get crystal.. to general Mendoza before the resistance…
No, i’m fine. Not really, but it’s fine. Probably. I have spent most of the day sleeping or resting. In my chair. Which has bent my back out of shape and now I’m in more pain. Hooray. My head is woozy and my throat hurts. Hopefully it’s going to start getting better soon. Getting pretty tired of it all. Hope you’re all doing okay out there. I don’t really have the energy to keep up with anything.
12/12 2023
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Ugh. Feeling quite rotten. Feels like things are still escalating instead of gettin better. I had been coughing a lil bit but last night it got a lot worse. And my throat hurts a lot. Coughing and throat hurting, bad combination. Makes you scared to swallow. Feeling tired and woozy and having some body aches too, not horribly, but noticeable. My back problematic too. Interesting my nose hasn’t been plugged at all. Tiny bit of mucus in my throat maybe. I wonder if that’s going to be the next step in the escalation, getting all snotty. Or if I’m over the hump and will start to get better now. It’s only been a couple of days haha. Sorry about all the whining. But this is my place to shine, I mean whine. It’s all that’s on my mind right now.
I’m trying to remember to drink a lot of water. I got me some powerade, I’m not sure if you have that in America/other countries, or if it’s a DAnish thing. It’s basically a gatorade ripoff. I shouldn’t really be drinking it since it has too much sugar. But I figure for a couple of days it will probably be ok, maybe it’ll help keep me hydrated.
How did I get powerade when I am stuck inside? Well today I got my Pepsi delivery. I had made the schedule a couple of weeks ago. I thought about canceling or postponing it, but I figured I’m feeling okay enough to open the door and get the bags inside. And I was, that part wasn’t too bad. It was lugging the 34 bottles of 1½ litre pepsis in and distributed that was a bit hard. But it went ok. I sure got enough Pepsi now. Didn’t get through the last batch yet.
Unfortunately they were not albe to deliver me the four packs of flourballs that I also ordered. I need those for my soup. I think my parents have a few bags in their freezer, they’ve been helping me get them because they can be hard to find. All stores have the meatballs w. flourballs packs, but the flourballs only packs are rare. Anyway.
I made a pot of soup last night, but I wasn’t able to eat it all. Not often I leave half a pot of soup uneaten. I should drink some more acv and maybe some cmammomile tea for the throat.
I was hoping to go see the goats tomorrow, but there’s no way that’s happening. I am doubting that I’ll make the weekend soup date with the parents too. But we’ll see how I feel by then.
I complain a lot, but it’s not feeling like any worse than the normal flu or throat infection or whatever you get from time to time. I think the covid isn’t too serious there these days, could still be that.
One day a dayyyy
13/12 2023
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Well don’t say I never listen. I took the advice of gargling with salt water. And it felt really good. Didn’t heal my throat, but it helped for a while. I think I’m going to do it again in a bit. Throat is hurting considerably again. It may have to come off.
13/12 2023
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Well, that was an unexpected phone call.
Got a call from a journalist at one of Denmark’s biggest tabloid newspapers. I guess I’m still pretty woozy, I wasn’t sure what he was talking about, he said something about “today’s big police action”. Eep. Well, I told him I didn’t know anything and wasn’t interested in participating. And hung up. And went online to see what the holy heck was going on. And yes, it seems police all over Denmark has made several arrests, it’s not completely clear yet I think but it’s something to do with preparation of terrorist attacks. Yikes. And there have been arrests in my neighbourhood. I am not sure if the journalist was just calling everyone in the whole neighbourhood or if there have been arrests in my building or.. Maybe I should have listened more to what he had to say before hanging up. Hah. Well. This is obviously not good. Or, I guess it’s good that they have apparently caught the attack before it happened. Sigh. I iive in a place with a lot of immigrants and problems, it’s not unsual to see us in the media. But this is pretty darn scary. There’s a press conference in an hour’s time, I guess we’ll get more news then. It makes me sad. Humans make me sad. I wish everyone was as naive and peace loving as me, ay ay. What’s the point of fighting for madeup shit, what’s the point of fighting at all. imagine all the people, war is over if you want it, etc.
Well hopefuly they stopped it and will get to the bottom of it.
As for me, I am finally starting to feel I’m over the worst of the sickness. Starting to get better, I think. Hooves crossed. Still tired and needing painkillers, it’s the best I’ve felt since Monday.
What a world.
14/12 2023
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Hello goodmorning hello, would you like a goat photo? Here’s the Lunabug. I have been so pooped that I haven’t had the strength to look at the vids and pics from Monday. In hindsight I should have stayed home then, but who knows if it would have made a difference.
I think I’m on the road to feeling better, nose got a bit clogged last night, but throat pain is less severe. Still tired, but able to stay fairly awake during the day and sleep during the night. Working back towards some kind of normalcy again. Here’s to hoping.
15/12 2023
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Fell into a rabbit hole of reading wikipedia articles about old dictators and wars and history and shrt. Ceausescu and Mussolini and Lenin and Stalin and Karl Marx and the soviet union and.. human history is crazy. I remember learning about it in school of course, but looking at it now it almost seems like it can’t be real, that stuff must be made up. All this war and suffering. Or what about William Adams and people traveling on ships and they didn’t have GPS, imagine how vast the world must have been when you couldn’t just pick up a phone and google street view wherever you are. There’s something deeply fascinating about the idea of not knowing, the wide open space waiting to be filled in. What was America like back then, talking from whitey’s perspective, it’s just fascinating to imagine coming to a whole new continent, I remember being fascinated by the Ingalls books when I was a kid, I can’t remember if I read them myself or if my mom read them to me, maybe bit of both. Little House On The Prairie was the famous one, but the one that preceeded it was litthe house… in the woods? Something like that. It’s just such a fascinating thought, to go to a new world and be part of its origin and you have to build everything and it’s not like minecraft wherw you can just reboot the computer.
Anyway. The thing that really struck me was that Hitler tested his cyanide pills on his own dog. I knew the guy was a monster, but wow. He was a vegetarian and a failed painter and he killed his own dog to make sure his cyanide pills were good and then he ended up shooting himself instead.
15/12 2023
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Okay, maybe this is more relevant to my demographic. It’s goats!
15/12 2023
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Remember goatlogs? Here’s a goatlog.
16/12 2023
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Bella and the butt.
16/12 2023
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I got good news and I got bad news.
The bad news is that I didn’t make it to my parents to have soup with the family today.
The good news is that I’m a spoiled baby and I got soup delivered to me.
Hooray! Shoutout to my mother for making her famous homemade soup, and shoutout to my dad for coming over with a couple of jugs of soup for me. I’ll be enjoying that for the next 3-4 days. Good stuff. Hashtag blessed, hashtag cough.
16/12 2023
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Here’s a Sky yawn caught on camera. Unfortunately the lighting wasn’t good, but I love goat yawns.
Only today I have really started feeling well enough to go through video and photos from the goat trip on Monday. All week I have basically done nothing but sit in my chair and watch youtube videos and drift in and out of sleep. I had thought to myself I thought “oh I’ll be home sick, what a good chance to watch some movies I’ve been meaning to watch”. Nope. Anything requiring a mental capacity higher than “watch me play this commodore 64 game” was just beyond me. Even watching a movie was just too demanding. But I’m feeling much better, tired and coughing but throat not hurting and my head fairly there.
16/12 2023
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Checking in with some nicely posed goats. Bella is making sure you get her good side.
Tired and coughing, but feeling fairly ok. Putting some soup on now.
17/12 2023
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That’s all for now.