ten good things about having pneumonia.
1. All that personal space you wanted on the bus/elevator/sidewalk? One cough, and people scurry like mice.
2. If your loved one is considering buying one of those expensive “Ocean Sound” simulators to help them sleep, just let them put their head on your chest. Also works for “Storm Sound” and “Cement Truck In Full Mix” simulators.
3. Who can get enough of illnesses with a silent “p”?
4. SARS jokes galore for April Fool’s.
5. It’s like the honour student version of a cold. Extra points for take home antibiotics!
6. If you swallow a goldfish in a college prank, that fish could well live happily in your lung for a year.
7. You can stand outside in the rain in bare feet with no coat or hat on, shivering, and when some old woman goes to yell at you as they walk by, you can yell: “NO, I WON’T! I ALREADY HAVE IT! SO THERE!”
8. People who come to hand you assignments at work tell you kindly that you should be home in bed.
9. You drink enough tea and juice to become the living embodiment of 1/3 of a continental breakfast.
10. You get fodder for a list that will probably make your mother wring her hands involuntarily while struggling to laugh.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I feel you my kindred pneumonia sister in arms. Rest though, k. It’s the only thing that got me through.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Cracking Up!
I’ve been there! I think my lungs became rental housing for a couple of beta fish.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:02 am
They are correct! You should be home in bed. Can’t believe you are back at work. When I had it I was down and out for the count for two weeks and at one point actually asked the M.D. to put me in the hospital. He wouldn’t the bastard!
April 1st, 2008 at 5:18 am
So, Meg…does being sick totally make you lose your depth perception? Or is that just me? Yesterday I ran into countless walls, chairs, etc. and I even drove over like three curbs. By the end of the day I relegated myself to the couch so I wouldn’t run into anything else.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:28 am
I agree with Debbie. You should be home in bed! Otherwise, it will last longer than it should.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:06 am
Well…(wringing hands)… just when you think your kids are ALL GROWN UP, they go to work with pneumonia,-with all the pride of having made a new friend or workmate!! Don’t make me come back there and…..whatever.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Hope you pfeel better soon!
Pfondly,
Your pfriends at Pfizer.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Meg, Meg, Meg…
You are so funny! Get well soon! At least, there’s sun out there.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Wow, who knew — you got and stay in a GIANT CASTLE OF ICE and you get pneumonia! Our mothers were right.
I, too, had pneumonia once, after spending an entire morning on a lake in the rain dressed in spandex waiting for a race to start. Not as fun as it sounds.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
You swallow the fish, you don’t inhale it.
Get well soon.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
get well soon!
i miss your humour in my life.