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merely talk

rantings and ravings with little cohesion and plenty of pretension

 

The Road to Recovery

So I'm better today. Still not 100% and there aren't a whole lot of foods I want to actually eat, but better. I was able to go to work this morning and eat breakfast. So go me.

I thought of a pretty awesome positive to this whole sick thing. I've lost like 3 pounds in the last 2 days, simply by having absolutely no drive to eat at all. It's kind of great, well at least to my deranged mind which would rather be skinny than healthy.

As I mentioned before it's so much better to be living with a parent when your sick. Usually I have to take care of myself, and I'm not really good at it. For example when I had Mono, I didn't really slow down at all, I still walked to university, went to all my classes and hung out with my boy and friends. Or when I had my wisdom teeth out, I kept getting out of bed. But this time my Mom was home with me. We watched Joan of Arcadia then she went and made my bed and made me get in it. It was awesome. I even fell asleep right away and didn't even hear her watch the news.

So yeah. Overall this sick experience wasn't too bad. The actual sickness was pretty awful and gross and painful, but a lot of good stuff happened anyway. I learned that my Mom is great, and not eating leads to a massive loss of weight.

 

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Anonymous Anonymous Says:

Sorry to say T, any weight lost in 3 days is almost certainly water weight. I've 'lost' ten pounds that way. It comes back when you start eating normally again.

-J

 
 
Anonymous Anonymous Says:

For the record, I didn't make it to event #2. The whole point was to meet my new coworkers at the staff dinner, but by the time I got downtown I figured that being 40 minutes late and then leaving early for event #3 would not lead to a positive first impression. On the bright side, events #1 and #3 were great.

I totally had a Joan of Arcadia moment on the bus. This elderly Irish Catholic man randomly turned all the way around to talk to me (I was sitting in the seat behind) and I actually had to wipe away tears after he got off the bus. Then again, I had to wipe away tears several times during event #3, so maybe I have PMS.

Happy Birthday Birthday Girl!

 
 
Anonymous Anonymous Says:

Being sick is bad. Sickly weight loss never lasts, unfortunately.

Hey, wasn't your birthday ages ago? I'm confused...

 
 
Anonymous Anonymous Says:

Yeah, she means me. Tessa managed to plan a wonderful surprise party for me while battling the stomach flu. I never suspected a thing. Yep, that's Tessa. I think she fights crime by night, too, but so far I haven't found the superhero costume.

 
 
Anonymous Anonymous Says:

In that case, happy belated birthday!

 

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