tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post6233024082003633880..comments2023-11-02T03:51:39.411-04:00Comments on FISHY2ME: Annual Miseryfishyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-78915961214943256642012-01-11T09:47:25.589-05:002012-01-11T09:47:25.589-05:00Scout,
Thanks .... one of the great things about b...Scout,<br />Thanks .... one of the great things about blogging is you can share a <br />"slice of your life" with immunity!<br /><br /> I have learned volumes from this blog group over the years! Not to mention my vocabulary has been expanded from playing haiku with this crowd. You are going to be so glad you joined the fun!fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-3794420088382906962012-01-10T21:00:48.838-05:002012-01-10T21:00:48.838-05:00Fishy! Great writing....I was riveted! And then w...Fishy! Great writing....I was riveted! And then when I got to the ending about poor gone Momma....well, I cried too. maybe someday you'll have a big ol' jewel in your crown for all these years of "sick week". I learned a LOT from this post and also from everyone's comments. I will incorporate my leanings ASAP. I travel a lot and usually catch the crud on an airplane filled with yuckiness.Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545646418936186653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-29137260594135634652012-01-10T09:04:56.676-05:002012-01-10T09:04:56.676-05:00Darn. For your sake, I was hoping it was only all ...Darn. For your sake, I was hoping it was only all in his head. I hope he recovers quickly.<br /><br />You are so very right: this is not something one "recovers" from. It's something one deals with. Sometimes, better than other times.moihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-14666970448427941732012-01-09T22:32:19.066-05:002012-01-09T22:32:19.066-05:00Seredipity !
LOL on the "crud" protectio...Seredipity !<br />LOL on the "crud" protection.<br />Thank you! Thank you! From your keyboard to God's ears :-0<br /><br />Blowfish will recover from his cold.<br />He will never "recover" from losing his Mom.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-37208159397611683722012-01-09T21:43:59.308-05:002012-01-09T21:43:59.308-05:00Wishing you patience and excellent crud resistance...Wishing you patience and excellent crud resistance. Hope Blowfish recovers quickly.<br /><br />SerendipityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-11523799507725944932012-01-09T17:28:53.653-05:002012-01-09T17:28:53.653-05:00Moi,
At other times, if Blowfish is ill,
he is act...Moi,<br />At other times, if Blowfish is ill,<br />he is actually pretty stoic: complains little, sleeps a lot and hunkers down to weather the illness.<br />January is just a hard time of year for him. The illness is real, not psychosomatic and therefore contagious. I have been told by several docs the mind-body connection in anniversary syndrome is sort of like the psyche shutting down the immune system for a brief period of time.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-86731509553914778902012-01-09T10:09:59.989-05:002012-01-09T10:09:59.989-05:00I used to have terrible colds as a child—and my mo...I used to have terrible colds as a child—and my mother basically did what yours did (only I got whiskey, too)—and as an adult, when I smoked. I haven't been sick since I drop-kicked the last of my Camels in the garbage can 15 years ago, though. <br /><br />But for the past 4-5 years, every spring S.B. somes down with this weird cold/allergy type thing that lasts about two weeks. Won't go to he doctor about it, doesn't believe in "drugs" so he won't even take an aspirin, won't get allergy-tested. You know the score. Luckily, he's a stoic invalid, so I don't have to do much above and beyond what I usually do. Although I do feed him lots of soup.<br /><br />I think you hit on something interesting re Blowfish and his mom's passing. That's never easy, but Italian boys and their mamas tend to be extra tight-knit. The good news is, if it's pschyosomatic, you're probably not likely to catch it.moihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-81306284668281474582012-01-09T08:39:22.295-05:002012-01-09T08:39:22.295-05:00Pam,
Thank you for that bright outlook.
"Anni...Pam,<br />Thank you for that bright outlook.<br />"Anniversary syndrome" is a psychological-physiological phenomenon which is real. In Blowfish's case it is a mercy. If you cannot allow yourself to grieve then your body gets sick and gives you the necessary acceptance to have a time out because you "feel terrible".<br /><br />Boxer,<br />They only do reality shows about dysfunctional families! I get it, we Pond People are not right but I don't think we are entertaining.<br />Although wasn't Archie Bunker on tv for a decade?<br /><br />Chickory,<br />I try to detox the Blowfish office when he naps. I have tried and tried to teach him about how mucus is a delivery system and once dried out the virus becomes airborne and ..... I am not heard. So I sneak around to flush his trash every hour or so.<br />I change his pillowcases every morning and after naps. I wash his clothes if he changes them.<br />I also believe in using colodial silver but I cannot get Blowfish to. It's tragic. The man has a a neat, well groomed mustache and beard so every exhalation he is trapping virus. I cannot, cannot, cannot convince him to spray his facial hair with silver or keep his hands off his face. It makes me crazy!<br /><br />I agree. To miss your mother this much, this hard, for nearly two decades to the point of illness is horrible. The good news is he keeps the candle lit for her in his heart.<br /><br />Still laughing about this,<br />"I can terrify the crap out of my husband"... oh how I wish I had that tool! I don't think there is anything on earth Blowfish trusts more than his own body. And he would never in a zillion decades starve a cold. He eats volumes!<br /><br />Aunty,<br />This week of every year the man is intractable, stubborn and completely uneducable. I however bathe myself, my hair, my clothes in an anti viral, anti-bacterial, anti -everything solution. It is a desperate week at the Pond. He lives on the ground floor, I live upstairs. It is true the Kitchen is on the main floor but I banish him from that room. He will grudgingly stay out of there if I am in there but he goes and stands in there when I am upstairs. He doesn't do anything, or fetch anything he just stands in there in an act of childish rebellion. Every year I swear I will leave home for the week but then compassion takes over and I stay.<br /><br /> In three of these years I not only caught his illness, I landed in the hospital. I even asked the hospital to ban him from visiting me because he had the nerve to imply I was ill because I was inferior stock. <br /><br />Boxer 2,<br />Thank you!<br />I have done all of your recommendations except the vodka.<br />Although,<br />I did give serious thought to putting a lot of vodka in his orange juice so I could have a few hours of peace. The truth is this, as the week grinds onward my patience and compassion wear thin.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-22015147948144961102012-01-08T22:44:29.044-05:002012-01-08T22:44:29.044-05:00all good advice from Chickie and I would only add ...all good advice from Chickie and I would only add one more thing; put a capful of hydrogen peroxide in each ear when feeling even the smallest inking of a cold. BAM! It's gone. Our entire shop was infected a few weeks ago and I followed MY OCD checklist:<br /><br />1. Sinus wash with saline<br />2. Hyrdogen peroxide gargle and in the ears.<br />3. hot bath.<br />4. vodka<br />5. repeat.<br /><br />For the record?<br /><br />I.Did.Not.Get.Sick.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280822962202098606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-52845888625549038122012-01-08T21:10:05.158-05:002012-01-08T21:10:05.158-05:00Quick, Fishy, you need a howling laugh:
http://ww...Quick, Fishy, you need a howling laugh:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE<br /><br />Have BF watch the newly released movie CONTAGION.<br /><br />@ Chick9<br />yes! change sheets and PJs / nightgown daily and pillowcases twice a day while cold is active. Wash yore hair everyday, and do not touch yore face. <br /><br />BTW, Fishy, in Charleston thar's a hospital thas' tryin' a new thang--COPPER push plates, faucets, bedrails--why? Cause bacteria cain't live on / in copper.Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-78641429846997732402012-01-08T20:42:31.445-05:002012-01-08T20:42:31.445-05:00wonderful slice of pond life - examined on the gla...wonderful slice of pond life - examined on the glass slide of a long term marriage. very good writing. I feel ya -totally - on the terror of clueless plague spreaders! On new years eve our guests from ATL arrived at chickory with "sinus infections". When they started blowing their noses as the night grew long, i pulled V into the back room and told him that what they had were COLDS and that he should start mainlining ionic silver immediately. I put it in my ears, i snort it and i spray it on the back of my throat. like every 30 minutes. predictably, the couple left on new years day (thank GOD) and I wiped literally every surface down with pine sol. I washed every fabric thing i could and bathed the dogs in a silver solution. It worked -we are well and the couple went and got antibiotics (WRONG!) I gave her the silver and told her how to use it but I dont know if she believed me.<br /><br />Chickory's cold stopping tips:<br /><br />if you think you are getting sickor have been exposed to sick people, immediately start taking zinc and drop down to clear liquids only. if you can get some silver, I highly recommend taking it. also "thieves" essential oils. take a drop or two in water.<br /><br />rest and change your sheets daily<br /><br />starve it<br /><br />no dairy<br /><br />keep your hands off your face<br /><br />do not have tissue you have blown into "laying around" empty trash often<br /><br />is that OCD enough for ya?<br /><br />One thing I have going for me - I can terrify the crap out of my husband. We are the exact same people and if i even hint that we have been exposed he whirs around like the tasmainian devil in a home detox with me. <br /><br />Poor Blowfish. Missing your mama sucks and sucks bad. give him an 'elbow hug' from me.chickoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814762747054617499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-43838649950810261062012-01-08T19:36:06.460-05:002012-01-08T19:36:06.460-05:00First, really, really, waiting for the reality sho...First, really, really, waiting for the reality show. Just sayin'. ;-)<br /><br />Interesting how your Blowfish "breaksdown" during a difficult time of the year. Wow. Good for you for connecting those dots, but of course you did. You're a woman and that's what "we" do.<br /><br />Soooo glad you attended your event and even picked up something. I would have been sad to read that you stayed home rather than go to something that clearly speaks to your soul. AND trip you made to France. Yay!<br /><br />also happy you're not coming down with whatever ails your Blowfish.<br /><br />and BLESS you for your patience with your man. He's a lucky duck. er, I mean fish. ;-)Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280822962202098606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-47725682498547409492012-01-08T18:56:44.202-05:002012-01-08T18:56:44.202-05:00Oh Fishy, this is so sweet on several levels. Fir...Oh Fishy, this is so sweet on several levels. First, the interaction between you two. But most of all, that you have figured out that he gets sick the same week every year and it is the anniversary of his mother's birthday/death. I have always heard that bodies have an emotional calendar of sorts and this story is proof enough for me. Blowfish, go get you some Nyquil and sleep it off, sweet-thang! And that hand-sanitizer? Use it please.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357397551761295138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-449617296043748092012-01-08T17:26:39.407-05:002012-01-08T17:26:39.407-05:00Troll,
There is most definitely a correlation betw...Troll,<br />There is most definitely a correlation between kids with no sibs and awareness of how their choices effect others. <br /><br />On many an occasion I have thought Blowfish would not have survived had he grown up in my parents house.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-41079996650105544762012-01-08T16:09:25.873-05:002012-01-08T16:09:25.873-05:00Hmmmm. I wonder if there's a correlation betwe...Hmmmm. I wonder if there's a correlation between kids with no sibs and obnoxious public germ spreading behavior?trollhttp://trollstroll.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com