So sick but it's nonspecific really

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This is making me nuts. I started feeling bad a couple weeks ago and it's just gotten worse. I have a fairly constant headache, chest congestion with semiproductive cough and hacking dry cough at times, runny nose, nausea and vomiting, and just in general feel like crap. I am having fevers occasionally and chills but I'll also go days without a fever.

I could go to the ER but this just seems to be a bug and I can't think of any way to treat it other than just the symptoms and all they will tell me to do is take OTC stuff, which I'm already doing. Whenever I get up I can walk halfway across a room and then I have to sit down, cause my legs feel like jelly. This is really sucking and I need to get to feeling better. My house is a mess but I just don't feel like cleaning it and I hate that it's a mess so it's bothering me. Half the time all I do is lay on the couch and sleep and the rest of the time I've been mainly laying on the couch watching tv. I can't get comfortable and I keep having to turn over and over constantly because my lower back and legs and hips are bothering me.

I don't know what this is but it's been going on too long and it's driving me nuts. It's a bug, my older daughter has had it herself for about four days and last night my younger daughter started coming down with it. I just wish I felt better. I have stuff I need to do and just can't.

I'll get online and log on here and post some but I'm just so sick that I'm not even thinking clearly right now. I get distracted or will just lose my train of thought in the middle of a sentence.

I wish I could either get better or just get sicker so I'm sick enough to actually be treated for something at the ER. This is just hanging on and on and on.

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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
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Sorry you're feeling well.

Have you made use of any folk remedies?

I bet you're sleeping right now.

Feel better!

Went to the ER. It's pneumonia. I got some meds for it. Hopefully I'll be feeling better soon. That's why I've been so sick and not able to do anything these past few weeks.

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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
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Oh, OOM that sucks big time. I'm so sorry you're feeling like such sh!t. I hope you improve soon.

Thanks. I'll be better in a few days. Both the girls are sick too and now my husband's car broke down. Freaking lovely, ain't it?

Also, my house is completely and totally trashed. I've got to figure out a way to get this place cleaned up. I've been sick and it's gotten progressively worse and worse and now that the girls are sick it's gotten more important for me to get it cleaned up because a messy house isn't conducive to them getting better. I'm gonna try and shower in a second.

There is one ray of sunshine though. This one boy who hangs out here with my oldest son has decided to make a positive change in his life. I've been encouraging him to do something else besides work at this assembly line place and be a professional piercer. He's decided to work for the Dept of Corrections. Last night I helped him look up the info and he's going to apply today and take the physical test in May. He's a bodybuilder so he can easily do the physical stuff. I am extremely proud of him! He wants to go on and be a state trooper.

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Hey Olive Oil....ever have Cow Heel Soup? It's a Caribbean delicacy--but I think Southern people might have something similar.

It's eaten when people need to feel warm, when they need solace when they are depressed, and when they need to physically heel.

Do you have a pressure cooker? If so, you must pressure-cook the cow heel for about an hour.

Then add the other ingredients: potatoes, split peas, corn, anything you want. You probably have to also pressure-cook the split peas; otherwise, it becomes like making any other soup.