I wish I could kick Mother Nature in the crotch.

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olliewilko

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I hate being sick. Honestly, everyone does. But I don't often get sick in the traditional sense. I could bathe in the snot of a tuberculosis patient and emerge unscathed, but the second the weather decides to spontaneously change, I'm fucked.

Let me explain:
I live near San Francisco, where the weather is always screwy anyway. We get the best and worst of every season. The problem is, summer and fall seem to be rapidly switching places around here. Last monday, we had overcast skies and some good breezes. I actually thought it was gonna rain. The very next day, we hit 93 degrees late afternoon. I woke up that morning feeling like there was a billiard ball in my left lung. I hacked up a half-dollar sized hunk of brownish lung butter in the shower, too.

So here I am, brain the size of a planet, coughing like a bastard, eating a chicken pot pie, and hoping to God I can finish posting this before the Nyquil kicks in.

Fuck weather.
/rant
 
Yeah, not to mention when you go to school about 15 people you know are infested with the latest cold. Of course it has to make its way through the whole school. You can't really protect your self, you'll get it eventually. What can you do, but stay home and stew in your own juices...
 
I'm with you, BW. I'm never sick, but the weather kills me. Although for me its when it goes from sun to rain in an hour that the pressure drop just gives me a migraine the size of Texas.
 
That fucking sucks. I'm sorry. I wish I could be there to help you but I can't, because I don't know where you're at. *duh*
I hacked up a lung for a few days and now it's a hell of a lot better, but I'm still coughing like a mad woman sometimes. It's nuts.
But yeah, you were bound to get it some time.
 
yea i live up in Ny and its beein raining for almost 2 days now

i woke up thursday mornin with my lungs so tight they hurt, so i got to the doctor to find out that i got walkin penoma (cant spell it) but yea fuck weather
 
I hate being sick as well. I've had sinus problems since I was ten, and any headache I get turns into migraines...

It really sucks. Plus it doesn't help that I live in Missisippi. Humid 90+ degree weather in summer, and winters that are more confusing than santa in leather chaps.
 
Yeah, I hate mother nature too. Every year my Strept (however you spell it) Throat kicks in, every year when winter starts. Ever year when winter starts I do nothing but use half a tissue box a day, each Kleenex full of yellow and clear shit, not to mention alot of it i cough up and have to spit into the sink.

Most people tell me, that must be heaven to stay home for a week every year, but it's not, IT"S HELL! With that said, I definately feel you man, I hate mother nature, it's the only thing that makes me really sick. :mad:
 
I get sick around the same time every year, which is in about a month. Coughs, head aches, dry, scratchy throat, and worst of all, a runny nose.

The weather doesn't actually make you sick; the coldness just weakens your immune system. That's why the flu spreads like a wildfire in the winter. As soon as one person in your class has it, everyone has it. Exept the exceptionally healthy kids, with their strong immune systems, and their fancy zipped up jackets... Bastards.

It snowed yesterday... But that's Canada for ya.
 
That sucks ass, I'm sorry for you buddy. My little brother just got a bad cold, and God knows he'll infect the rest of the house.
It's really weird how your body reacts to weather changes though. Makes me wonder if this should be in Fringe Theories. :confused:

Good thing is I can predict the weather in my area, so I always come prepared. :)
 
Here's an article I found on Health and Beyond

Chicken Soup: Nature's Best Cold and Flu Remedy?
By Chet Day

An excerpt from How to Beat Colds and Flu with 37 Natural Remedies and Three Healing Meditations

When I was growing up in the '50s, my grandmother always said chicken soup was good for what ails you.

Interestingly enough, scientific evidence today supports what dear old granny used to say.

Several medical experts have proven that old-fashioned chicken has healing properties.

Although a 12th century physician named Moses Maimonides first prescribed chicken soup as a cold and asthma remedy, its therapeutic properties have been studied by a host of medical experts in recent decades. Findings vary.

Some say the steam is the real benefit. Sipping the hot soup and breathing in the steam helps clear up congestion.

Irwin Ziment, M.D., pulmonary specialist and professor at the UCLA School for Medicine, says chicken soup contains drug-like agents similar to those in modern cold medicines. For example, an amino acid released from chicken during cooking chemically resembles the drug acetylcysteine, prescribed for bronchitis and other respiratory problems.

Spices that are often added to chicken soup, such as garlic and pepper (all ancient treatments for respiratory diseases), work the same way as modern cough medicines, thinning mucus and making breathing easier.

Another theory, put forth by Stephen Rennard, M.D., chief of pulmonary medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, is that chicken soup acts as an anti-inflammatory. The soup, he says, keeps a check on inflammatory white blood cells (neutrophils). Cold symptoms, such as coughs and congestion, are often caused by inflammation produced when neutrophils migrate to the bronchial tubes and accumulate there.

In his lab, Rennard tested chicken soup made from the recipe of his wife's Lithuanian grandmother. He demonstrated that neutrophils showed less tendency to congregate - but were no less able to fight germs - after he added samples of the soup to the neutrophils. Diluted 200 times, the soup still showed that effect.
 
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