| INTP Discussion Forum > Flamethrower > How much I love the flu |
| Posted by: NGene Feb 3 2004, 07:31 PM |
| Well, since the other purpose of this forum is to be a place for ranting and whining, I'll whine a bit. Being sick sucks. I mean, don't you just love it when there's some sandpaper in your throat, onions in your eyes, truck driving over your shoulders, and somebody hitting your head with a hammer.  Plus I feel a bit dizzy and out-of-my body, but that's nothing new, I have that feeling even when I'm healthy (or, should I say, in my normal physical state since I'm not quite sure what is healthy?  )Ahh, I feel a bit better now.  |
| Posted by: irishwhistle Feb 3 2004, 08:19 PM |
| If I knew that I had all those things but was spared nausea and vomiting, I'd be ecstatic. I've had a cold myself this week, so you have my pity. Do you have a Trader Joes near where you live? They have a lovely throat lozenge there that got me through sculpture class. And that was a chore in itself because at one point I ended up somehow conversing with a middle-aged gent who seemed to think I needed to discipline my 2 year old better. He has not met the little lad, but I happened to make a couple of off-hand statements about the boy's hitting problem, the kind that usually get a sympathetic response, or at least get someone to suggest that it's a phase and just don't give him attention for it... But you always get some wacko who thinks if you don't come down hard on the toddler that he will grow up to be a villian. Now, when I get someone butting into my life like this, it takes me a while to get a clue and quit arguing about it, so I end up feeding them too much information. But here's the thing... is there really any excuse for being so stupid that you take a casual conversational remark from an acquaintance and use it as a doorway to tell them how to live their life? WHERE HAVE PERSONAL BOUNDARIES GONE? Sorry. My husband said it's just because the guy is old. My little hubby has issues with old people. All I know is, I had hit that point where he was saying, yet again, "Well, you've got to discipline him while he's small," to which I finally tensely said, "I KNOW I've got to discipline him," because I am a slow thinker and need silence to do it properly so I didn't have time to think of the better response, "Hello! I didn't ask you your opinion of my son so I invite you to butt yourself back out again. Where in He!! is the button that switches you off?" I changed locations around the model instead and chided myself for breaking my no small talk rule. So take heart... you're a sick thinker and not a healthy boor. Wow, that could be taken a couple of different ways. Cool. |
| Posted by: Odyssey Feb 4 2004, 08:15 AM |
| Interesting... I'm also sick because my stress levels from semester exams knocked out my immune system, haha. But I'll be better in time to perform a piano song this weekend, yay. ~Odyssey [teenage male INT(F)P... at times passionately ambitious, often times cooly analytical, countless times simply fascinated with life!] |
| Posted by: NGene Feb 5 2004, 10:52 AM | ||
Ahh... yurrgghhhh... aarghhh... Don't even mention that! I can't think of anything worse than a stomach flu! Yuck! Awful!  Ok, of course the big things like cancer, MS, or something like that can be alot worse, but when talking about the mostly harmless illnesses everyone get every now and then, stomach flu is the most annoying one. |
| Posted by: Darksigma Feb 7 2004, 07:44 PM | ||
What if you suffer exactly the same, seven months a year...? Difficult allergies don't much differ from the conception of a long continous flu. You get exactly that, only without the fever part. Plus nice rash, asthma, and other tidbits. If you're allergic to every darn plant, pollen, hairy creature, dust, pigeon, blossom, and a myriad of other idiocies, and your madicines are not fully effective, what can you do but to try and bear that? I've stopped ranting about flus, since I don't really notice the difference any longer.  Just waiting for the magical fairy plashing in stardust to flick her wand and conjure the evil icky wicky troubles away.Or if someone sees the Potions Master Severus Snape around, tell him I'd like him to mix me that masterpotion that'll cure me permanently. |
| Posted by: INTrPosr May 3 2004, 06:21 PM |
| I rarely get sick. Usually it's after my immune system dies from too much activity, and I get some time to slow down. I think that because of my extreme need for independence, I hate the thought of someone thinking they should take care of me. Two summers ago, I had a run in with my chain saw along my left knee. It resulted in me needing forty stitches and staples. During my week off from work, I ran my daughter crazy. She was directed to watch after me, but when she attempted to help, I would tell her that I had it...., or could do whatever I was doing without assistance. By mid-week she broke down and said, "You're stubborn!" I felt for her, but still couldn't give up my independence. Jack |
| Posted by: shaytana May 3 2004, 07:08 PM | ||
I would think that reaction would be typical for an INTP, does anyone here actually like being taken care of and babied when they are sick? Personally I can’t stand having anyone around me when I am sick, especially if I am nauseous. Maybe if I had a little bell that I could ring when I wanted something, and after they delivered it they would leave promptly, no chit chat, no asking how I am feeling and God forbid do NOT touch me. I just want to find a cool quiet dark place to lay down and die lol. But I wont go to the doctor or use any antibiotics unless its absolutely necessary, I prefer to give my body all the rest and liquids it needs to fight off whatever I got, maybe using something to curb the symptoms a little if I cant sleep. |
| Posted by: Vagabond May 4 2004, 12:14 AM |
Being pampered when sick, ha... I am too hard on myself. Even when I really feel like hell, I am beating myself up, because I feel like I am overreacting; that I can handle it more than I pretend to. Of course when I fall down unconcious/in lack of balance/too dizzy to stand, I realise that I was probably under-reacting (if such a term exists  ). Hmm, I wonder if it sounds quite abnormal to be so much out of connection with my body that I don't know if I am OK or about to drop dead... I might enjoy *some* extra attention whan I am sick, but too much of it pisses me off and makes me more exausted than I am already.I totally relate to what shaytana says - when I am nauseous I need to be alone. Totally. Bring me a bucket in case I need to throw up and get out. Don't talk to me when I am at it, don't try to help me out (holding my head, for instance) - just get out and leave me in peace to do what I have to do. I also relate to this touching issue; when I am nauseous/with high temperature/in pain, don't touch me. You are distracting my effort to beat the symptoms - which means I will be more nauseous/dizzy/aching, plus I will most likely feel pissed off as well, which is a torment at that time. |
| Posted by: shaytana May 4 2004, 05:31 PM | ||
I know what you mean by distracting your effort. With me, when I am sick I tend to slip into a slight delirium. For example, this one time I was sick, just a 24 hour stomach bug, half asleep I had an image in my head of an empty cup with a straw or stick in it, and I had to use my mind to make the straw stand straight up, it was leaning because I was sick and if I could just straighten it I would be well again. I believed this to be true and at the same time knew it wasn’t, it is a strange experience when it happens. Maybe I am crazy.  I don’t remember if I ended up getting it to stand up straight before I fell asleep but I woke up feeling good  |