Sat, Feb 23, 2008
Burned Soup
Posted to Miscellaneous category
Thursday evening I tried to make my family's usual soup for when you are feverish: just a couple of bullion cubes, water, and tiny acini de pepe noodles. I kept fading out, so I burned it. Twice.
I finally succeeded in making a batch by setting the stove timer every five minutes, so I wouldn't zone out for too long and burn the soup again. My microwave timer and some of the others, produce a single discreet 'ding' that can be missed unless you are right in the room. And there is really no place to sit down in my kitchen if you are, for example, feeling a bit dizzy. The stove timer is an obnoxious loud buzzer that keeps making noise until you go into the kitchen and do something about it.
Note to self: if the stove gets replaced with one that has a discreet timer, invest in an obnoxious timer as a backup.
From 10:30 Thursday evening to 10:30 this morning (Saturday) I spent all but about 3 hours flat in bed, not even ever propped up enough to read. But the total rest seems to have helped some.
I only had two tiny bouts of the cough from hell Friday. One was right before I finally got up for a while to try to eat something: Dinah Kitty was glaring at me because I was making the waterbed shake and she knows the rule is no coughing on the bed. I've coughed a couple of times since I got up today, but they weren't the cough from hell, just my normal, swallowing-muscles-not-cooperating coughs.
I had a fever again for a while yesterday afternoon (for some reason I've been feverish in afternoons more than mornings) and need to watch out for a recurrence today. But I'm very hopeful that if I don't get too tired out I will finally get over this crud.
I've lost about 5 pounds over the past few days, but that is mostly dehydration: body fat percentage is spiking. I need to sit up for a while and drink a lot of fluids while I let my back unkink from laying down too long.