go home get some sleep

that’s what they told me this morning when i got to work.
the boss is on the older side of life and for some reason seems to want to live longer.
whatever.
so i came home and passed out on the sofa with the tv on and a cat lying on me.
good times.

this flu, that’s not a flu, cause you can’t get the flu from the shot.
sucks.
today i’m tired, i mean no energy.
i am spacey, have a post nasal drip thats given me a hacking cough and my eyeballs are on fire.
sucks.

idiot boss got mad when i made a funny of coughing on my hand and running it along the desk.
he didn’t think it any more funny when i grabbed a co-workers hand and said a very sincere good morning either.
really, he’s not my favourite co-worker anyway…….

they were happy to see the walking talking germ bag leave.

assholes.

 

balls – i has em

so if H1N1 flu is anything like fake H1N1 flu you’re fucked when you get it.

that vaccine i got so i wouldn’t die from it is killing me. i asked the people at the clinic and they assured me i got an inactive dose of the virus and the most i would suffer from the shot was a headache. i learned later that they tell people this cause they don’t want the victim to imagine symptoms where there are none.
uh- huh that’s nice.

i spoke with a know-it-all friend and she assures me i cannot get the flu from this shot, that all you can get is a headache.

so i figure now that they’re all fucked. cause i got the damn flu.

got the shot on tuesday afternoon and now i have sinus drain, body tired and general don’t-give-a-shitness.
more hurts than my head and i don’t even want to leave the house.

i went for groceries cause groceries don’t wander into my place all on their own. i was so out of it from the walk to the store that i got into the express line, the 10 item only express line. the cashier kept looking at me funny and i couldn’t figure out why. this woman stood there and watched as i piled all that food on the belt and didn’t say a word. as she was checking it all in she said, “next time you’ll have to use the regular check out if you have more than 10 items”.
so i got told. 
i was so spaced out i didn’t realize what i was doing.

she must have thought i had balls. ah well.

shot up

so on tuesday afternoon i walked into a clinic to have my world traveller shots updated. my company likes to keep its employees updated on everything – just in case. we never know where we’ll be sent and usually on short notice.
the downside to such a lifestyle is it has made my cats hardened loners. it’s sad but true.

soooo………on tuesday afternoon i went to get shot. as i walked in there was a woman walking down the hallway offering the h1n1 to anyone who wanted it. they had finished vaccinating their health care workers and as the clinic would be closed on wednesday for rememberance day and they didn’t want to waste the vaccine, it was up for grabs. i grabbed.

i spent all of yesterday on the sofa curled into a ball suffering.
its been explained to me some time ago that the vaccine gives you a small amount of the flu so that your body can build antibodies to it. in this way the flu itself when it comes along doesn’t kill you.

i wanted to die yesterday.

wasn’t having a good time.

today i didn’t go to work either, i called in sick.

my arm hurts like it’s been hit by a baseball bat and wouldn’t you know it, the cat picks that arm to walk on, push against and cuddle up to.
lucky me.