Seeeeck!

Today, I am sick. I am officially "sick". Even got a doctor's note saying: "Your body have succumbed to unknown malevolent pathogens and now you have such an alarmingly high fever, I don't know why I don't throw you into that damn bathtub of ice right now." Or something to that effect.

And to entice you to read further into this post I shall proceed to describe how everytime I opened my eyes, the pressure at the back of them threatened to pop my eyeballs out of their sockets. Or maybe they just threatened to pop my eyeballs anyway without due consideration of leaving my sockets first. Illnesses tend to be very unaccomodating that way.

What I really wanted to talk about was flu medicines. I have NEVER come across a proper flu medicine. I think the basic blueprint for all runny nose medication was;

Researcher 1: "Hmmm how do we stop the nose from running like leaky faucet Researcher 2?"
Researcher 2: "I don't know Researcher 1, my mom always put a stopper on those leaky taps at night"
Researcher 1: "Eureka! You've got it Researcher 2. Let's make a medication that will stimulate the turbinates or nasal conchae swollen hereby disrupting all forms of nasal flow."
Researcher 2: "I have no idea what you just said"
Researcher 1: "We make the nose super-blocked la so mucus cannot come out! Goondu!"

I tell you it's a scam! First the nose becomes all runny and purposely drops large amounts of liquid mucous when you're in public and have no tissue available. The you go doctor (who laughs at your predicament and says "Haha! Flu only what!") Then he gives you panadol and some generic flu medicine. Trust me I've tried most of 'em. All end up giving me blocked nose!

Cannot Breathe, Cannot Eat, Cannot smell. Sigh. The "cannot eat" part is the worse. Must chew quickly and swallow so got time to breathe. If you think it sounds ridiculous to do wait till you watch SOMEONE ELSE try it. Sigh!