The Beginning of Illness

I saw someone on Twitter say she hates the "beginning of illness" feeling, like if you wake up from a nap and you're sweating through your clothes.

I know how that goes, even though I don't get sick very often. Somehow, I don't know how, I just rise above it. But that doesn't mean that any second now I couldn't come crashing down. It definitely has happened in the past ... as is true for almost everyone.

There's some sickness in my family now. She has a bacteria problem in the lungs and needs to take an antibiotic, I think it's called, Z-Pack. I used that once with bronchitis. This can be deadly stuff and I hope I don't catch it.

Last night I caught myself making a clicking noise in my throat, which is usually the sign that something incipient is about to blossom. But I quit doing it, forgot about it, and woke up in the morning feeling fine. Just so I wake up tomorrow feeling fine. That'll be good too.

I don't suppose positive thinking has anything to do with it really. But I something think if you think you're not going to get it, you won't. Sometimes works!

A Bowl of Noodles

There's a post of a bowl of noodles that made a guy sick. They look so innocent, like a moment of Zen. But the post notes how "ironic" it was that he took time to take a picture of this exact bowl of noodles. To which I would say -- depending on how often he takes pictures of food before eating it -- that is weird. The "bug in the soup" made him sick for the next four days.

I would probably never have a bowl of noodles like that again. Not as a superstition, but because of a lack of appetite. But if you ever have a hangover and want to do something about it, they suggest the "hair of the dog that bit you." So the cure might to eat more noodles. At least, you're showing who's the boss when it comes to food -- you or the bug.

But who am I to talk? I haven't had Pizza Hut taco pizza for 25-30 years because our whole family got sick on it one time. Came home, as I recall, and got totally sick. So ever since, no more. We were at Pizza Hut the other day, for the buffet, and we thought it was a taco pizza just put out -- which would be no go -- but it was something else, so that was OK.