The Devil is a patriot, a proper party man
After a weekend of worsening listlessness, brainlessness, and general malaise, I finally saw a doctor and seem not to have any of the currently circulating plagues, but was sent home with a new inhaler and instructions to medicate myself like the nineteenth century on account of my lungs sounding terrible. I would so very much like to be able to think about anything that matters to me. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thisbluespirit: a substantial cache of British television plays on YouTube, as usual for however long it takes for the BBC to notice.
2. Courtesy ofdavidgillon: the ongoing investigation of HMS Erebus on the clock of climate change. I had somehow forgotten the pre-printed Admiralty equivalent of a black box recorder.
3. I had occasion last night to share Donald Swann's recording of "Lord of the Dance," from his Sydney Carter-penned EP Songs of Faith and Doubt (1964). I am never going to get over the existence of this version and I also happen to like it.
4. I am delighted that the latest bog body discovery went through the normal stage of checking out a recent homicide before settling on the Ice Age, but I really love the universal and automatic association with Seamus Heaney.
5. Ainsley Hawthorn's "The Sea, Like Glass" (2024) is a marvelous haunting of sea and selves.
1. Courtesy of
thisbluespirit: a substantial cache of British television plays on YouTube, as usual for however long it takes for the BBC to notice.2. Courtesy of
davidgillon: the ongoing investigation of HMS Erebus on the clock of climate change. I had somehow forgotten the pre-printed Admiralty equivalent of a black box recorder.3. I had occasion last night to share Donald Swann's recording of "Lord of the Dance," from his Sydney Carter-penned EP Songs of Faith and Doubt (1964). I am never going to get over the existence of this version and I also happen to like it.
4. I am delighted that the latest bog body discovery went through the normal stage of checking out a recent homicide before settling on the Ice Age, but I really love the universal and automatic association with Seamus Heaney.
5. Ainsley Hawthorn's "The Sea, Like Glass" (2024) is a marvelous haunting of sea and selves.
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My sister had similar a couple of weeks ago when she was sent for a check-up from the asthma clinic at the local hospital by the nurse practioner at her GP's. The clinic nurse decided her thermometer was probably wrong when it reported she was running a temperature of 42C (107.6F), but thought she sounded so horrible she sent her straight to the duty doctor - who himself reported he could hear her breathing from his office while she was in the waiting room. New inhaler prescribed, plus ordered to use her maintenance one like it's going out of fashion.
This is from a bug she beat back at Christmas, the same one that hit me at New Year.
Recent conversation:
Me: asked how I was and when I said I was still coughing* said she'd heard some people are still coughing after six weeks.
Sis: My doctor says he's got people still coughing at 100 days.
This winter's bugs are just nasty, even when you haven't got them. Lots of things crossed for inhaled improvements.
* Fingers crossed I've finally got rid of it after a month
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Yeeesh. I hope she is feeling better these couple of weeks later.
This winter's bugs are just nasty, even when you haven't got them. Lots of things crossed for inhaled improvements.
Thank you very much. Strength to your lungs, too.
*hugs*