That's my weekend fukt

[Zed]

I was OK before, but I feel the unmistakable discomfort of the flu...
And I had so much planned.

Take it like a man you wimp, we all get sick! Why just the other week I had a cold (not influenza) and had to take time off work, which meant I was two days behind, which meant working twice as hard when I returned to work, which meant a financial hole in my pocket, which meant more pressure on ME...but do you see me complaining?





Get well soon Ian!!

[Paul in NZ]

Ah Bugger...

Shit of a year for illness man... I'm only JUST getting over all mine and Vickster still has a cough!. Rest rest rest...

Cheers

[Waylander]

Take it like a man you wimp, we all get sick! Why just the other week I had a cold (not influenza) and had to take time off work, which meant I was two days behind, which meant working twice as hard when I returned to work, which meant a financial hole in my pocket, which meant more pressure on ME...but do you see me complaining?





Get well soon Ian!!

Jerk. I wish I could take a sick-day. Even if it did mean more work for when I felt better. Working hard when you are healthy is so much better than working lousy when you are sick.

[vifferman]

Take it like a man you wimp, we all get sick! Why just the other week I had a cold (not influenza) and had to take time off work, which meant I was two days behind, which meant working twice as hard when I returned to work, which meant a financial hole in my pocket, which meant more pressure on ME...but do you see me complaining?

Well, I finally returned to work yesterday, for a half-day. That's the most time I've had off since I had a burst appendix 17 years or so ago. And incidentally, this is the most sick I can remember being. Looks like this weekend won't be much chop either....
This is simply the most bastardest, evil, malevolent virus I have had the misfortune of meeting.
I've had a week of aches and pains, cold sweats, disorientation, headaches, a sore neck, nightmares, no appetite (and everything tasting like crap anyway), sinusitis, etc. I was glad at one stage I had no hair, because if I did I reckon that would've hurt - everything else did, even my skin, eyes, and teeth.
On Tuesday I was stuck on the bog for 10 minutes trying to convince my brain that unconsciousness was not a good idea right at that time.

Hit the Glenmorangie and hide in the garage.

Don't have any of that fancy stuff.
But I discovered (courtesy of #1 son) this stuff called "Gee's Linctus"; it tastes horrible (courtesy of the 'Squill' it's made from, presumably), but is great for getting a good night's sleep (courtesy of the morphine).

Anyway, enough moaning. I'm glad I'm mainly on the mend, and thanx to Mr/Mrs/Dr Gee, at least I can have a few hours free of coughing to get some undisturbed sleep (which I'm sure my wife appreciates too).

[Ixion]

..
But I discovered (courtesy of #1 son) this stuff called "Gee's Linctus"; it tastes horrible (courtesy of the 'Squill' it's made from, presumably), but is great for getting a good night's sleep (courtesy of the morphine).

Anyway, enough moaning. I'm glad I'm mainly on the mend, and thanx to Mr/Mrs/Dr Gee, at least I can have a few hours free of coughing to get some undisturbed sleep (which I'm sure my wife appreciates too).

Gees Linctus - yes 'tis wonderful indeed. And it is the squill which tastes bad. We used to put chloroform into it, which made it taste great. But then the spoilsports made us take the chloroform out of everything, and there is no substitute. So now it tastes bad.

The good nights sleep is as likely to be the alcohol as the opium (it's opium incidentally, not morphine)


Dextromorphan HBr will also help with an unproductive cough. You can get it in lozenge form which is handy for werk.

[vifferman]

The good nights sleep is as likely to be the alcohol as the opium (it's opium incidentally, not morphine)

Nah - I tried some home-made concoctions with alcohol in them, and they were great for soothing the throat etc., but not as effective for sleep inducement.
Most (but not all) of the stuff on the Interdweeb said it was opium, added to counteract some of the effects of the Squill (nasty little rodent, that squill), but #1 son (4th year BPharm student) was adamant it was morphine sulphate, and several versions had that instead of opium.
Opium sounds better.

[DemonWolf]

Hope ya are fully restored real quick vifferman


=)

[Ixion]

Nah - I tried some home-made concoctions with alcohol in them, and they were great for soothing the throat etc., but not as effective for sleep inducement.
Most (but not all) of the stuff on the Interdweeb said it was opium, added to counteract some of the effects of the Squill (nasty little rodent, that squill), but #1 son (4th year BPharm student) was adamant it was morphine sulphate, and several versions had that instead of opium.
Opium sounds better.

Nope. I used to make it. 2 tonnes at a time. 'twas Opium Tincture 1% all right. We imported the tincture from the UK . And I had to add it to the batch. personally. Tediously Blurdy drugs laws. Except one time we couldn't get any tincture cos the blurdy UN or someone had blitzed all the poppies in Afganistan (or somewhere). So we tried to import a couple of kilo of raw opium mass to make our own tincture. The HASSLES I had arguing with Customs over that .

Though, 'tis true, one active part of opium, if purified is morphine. So I guess both are true, though the raw opium contains other opiates as well as morphine.

The formula BTW is

Squill Linctus Opiate BPC

Compound Tincture of Camphor 6 fl. oz. 320 min.
Oxymel of Squill 6 fl. oz. 320 min.
Syrup of Tolu 6 fl. oz. 320 min.

And Tinct camph Compound is

Powdered opium (12 per cent.), 0.4; benzoic acid, 0.4; camphor, 0.4; Oil of anise, 0.4; glycerin, 4; alcohol (49 per cent.), 95. Macerate for three days with frequent agitation, filter, and add sufficient of the alcohol to produce 100. Average dose.—8 mils (2 fluid drachms).

EDIT: Actually, I think it was actually a couple of hundred kilo of opium. But, whatever. The grief they gave me trying to get it released, I had to go to the Minister before they'd shut up.

[Patrick]

The first year I was sick as a dog. After that Ive been fine ever since...

Maybe tyhat explains it...had my first flu shot and had the crappiest winter ever...sickest I've ever been and I blamed the shot...haven't had one since and haven't been as sick either...go figure...