I know that menthol, spices do not actually decrease the amount of mucus produced. However, they do provide a little temporary relief so one can breathe and swallow. It's the same with gargling. It's not a cure, it's a treatment to better endure the illness. Like antihistamines just lesson your sensitivity. Decongestants are the things that actually dry out the sinuses but again they don't actually cure the infection. They all make the ride to recovery a little less bumpy.
Coping mechanisms for cold and flu.
Of course being versed in Cognitive behavioral therapy I can intellectually analyze all this while laying in bed wishing I could swallow and breathe so I reach into the bag of tricks to make it tolerable so I can sit back and watch a video or read some new webcomics.
I have a problem, let's see what's available to solve it, or if not solve it make survival that much less painful. Because boy do I feel awful already before I get sick. Just how much awful can I be expected to tolerate?
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I'm very sad about Esk today for a number of reasons. I even saw her sleeping on the couch in my usual spot… She used to sneak and lay there so she could have it instead.
It was just my eyes playing tricks, resolving an indistinct blob of shadowy cushion testure into a familiar and expected shape, but it brought home to me that she'll never be there again.
So after several months, I am nearly done with this monster of a song. I'm still missing the final part (which requires a female singer for it), but this is what I have:
Mr. Petersik - Nearly Finished
I lost my dog Pan a few months ago. We were walking and he turned right when I turned left and then he was just gone. I searched for him all night, and for months afterward and there has been no sign of him. He was 15 years old and already a few years beyond his life expectancy, he was mostly deaf and blind. I believe he was holding on for my sake. It is very likely a Coyote killed him, they are everywhere where I live. Or that he was in his favorite place to walk and decided to lay down somewhere and die.
On a more positive note, I started a good job and bought a new jazz guitar to celebrate/compensate. One of my favorite musicians, Shakey Graves, plays a Gibson ES-175. This is the same body style but it is an Ibanez.
Yeah, unfortunately, it looks like I may be on the verge of having to find myself a second job (and I mean a "real job") because . . . sigh . . . Sleepy Joe isn't doing a damn thing about Drumpf's inflation, and in fact, has let it gotten even worse (seriously, prices for goods are literally twice as much as they used to be now), but wages and such aren't also being risen to compensate for such; I'm not drowning in debt yet, but I'm practically always broke now because there's still bills and rent and such to stay on top of, and those kind of take priority over double-priced food or fuel.
So, looks like I may soon have to completely retire from cartooning, puppeteering, and content creating in general. America sucks.
Dang… We all in the same boat. Even here in Japan shit is getting too expensive. I'm gonna have to go back to working 6 days a week. But I refuse to quit drawing. I gotta pull another 12 hour day from the time I leave house to when I get home. I got up early to spend about 45 min drawing and managed to pencil 1 page. My goal is to get about 2 hours a day at my desk. I do most off my writing and thumbnailing on the train. My schedule is gruelling but in the last 5 years I've drawn about 1,500 pages of sketchbooks. My point is, don't give up.
Unka John wrote:Unfortunately for my late dad, he could never retire. Not because he didn't want to (believe me, he was well into his 70s, he wanted to), but because in his line of work, he was always a sub-contractor, he was never a company employee, therefore, he never had anything that he could pay into that would provide him with retirement, like a 401K or anything of the sort. He grew up on a farm as well, so he practically worked literally almost all of his life, up until his last few years as his health began to deteriorate.
I'm right there with you J. Looks like my retirement lasted only a year.
sleeping_gorilla wrote:
I lost my dog Pan a few months ago. We were walking and he turned right when I turned left and then he was just gone. I searched for him all night, and for months afterward and there has been no sign of him. He was 15 years old and already a few years beyond his life expectancy, he was mostly deaf and blind. I believe he was holding on for my sake. It is very likely a Coyote killed him, they are everywhere where I live. Or that he was in his favorite place to walk and decided to lay down somewhere and die.
On a more positive note, I started a good job and bought a new jazz guitar to celebrate/compensate. One of my favorite musicians, Shakey Graves, plays a Gibson ES-175. This is the same body style but it is an Ibanez.
Sorry to hear that, perhaps you could christen the guitar Pan in has memory? Nice looking florentine cutaway, Ibanez make some great archtops.
And here I am having to use up all the PTO time I have before my work anniversary in May. I can only carry over 40 hours amd I accumulate time very fast. So use it or loose it.
I've had times in my life with forced inactivity so I know what retirement would mean and I'm not doing it. I don't get anything done and I eat too much. My mother worked until 83, my sister has put off retirement twice because she loves what she does.
I found a job where there is lots of down time that I'm free to fill as I want so long as I remain vigilant. So I can still work on my comic while getting paid. I've worked very long and hard at getting things right.
I know I'm always on a razor's edge. That's what having biologically based depression and anxiety is like. I am very good at catastrophizing. That's an actual medical term for anxiety where you just sit and worry about everything that can go wrong.
lothar wrote:I love boring. I've come to hate it when stuff gets interesting. In my job "interesting " equals paper work. "Interesting" means I actually have to do stuff.
You ever wake up and think " fuck! Another day where I gotta do a bunch of boring shit until I'm exhausted" ?
"May you live in interesting times" is definitely a curse.
bravo1102 wrote:Yup, boring days are good. When things are regular and predicable you can get a lot more done. Chaotic days are harder to deal with.lothar wrote:I love boring. I've come to hate it when stuff gets interesting. In my job "interesting " equals paper work. "Interesting" means I actually have to do stuff.
You ever wake up and think " fuck! Another day where I gotta do a bunch of boring shit until I'm exhausted" ?
"May you live in interesting times" is definitely a curse.
When my dad retired he went right back to work. He's never really stopped. Though now I think he's actually starting to think about retiring for real.
He had a good job back in the day so he had enough money and resources to fully retire the first time, but he goes crazy if he's not doing something. He HAS to be going out and doing things, he was never able to be happy staying at home for any length of time.
But now he wants to have more time to go out and do stuff with his partner.
I read the dumbest thing of the year in the news today but also bloody hilarious and very apropos:
TWENTY SEVEN teenage girls were taken to hospital because they had anxiety attacks after playing with a Ouija board at a school. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So not only did these imbeciles panic over made up ghosty demons on their Milton Bradley idiomatic board game, they all had FAKE anxiety attackst too. Silly monkey-see monkey-do teens. Maybe a single one might have had a real attack and the rest just copied her.
But can you imagine the needless hospital bills because of that? 🤪
Thousands of dollars wasted on stupid kids. That's insane
Madness of crowds. That many it's really easy to whip them up into very real anxiety about very fake things.
And several other girls had to be hospitalized with head injuries from all the face palming they did while the others panicked each other with nonsense they'd seen in some movie. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Another girl had to be treated for eye strain from rolling her eyes so much.
Jason Moon wrote:Hahaha! Good idea XD
After the little girls are out of the hospital their parents should lock them in a room with The Evil Dead film playing. Tough them up a bit. Build up their creativity.
It's actually that form of teenage creativity that created the myth of the poltergeist.
Today it's miss-remembered as a "true" story of teen girls haunted by viscous spirits who moved furniture and threw things but the reality is that when all the cases were investigated by people with actual brains in their heads it was just naughty teenage girls playing pranks on their parents and loving the attention.
The kids were not the stupid ones in THAT instance, it was the patents and the ghost believers.
In a case of STUPID teens though similar to the fake anxiety attack girls, French teens think they can catch Tourettes from watching Instagram videos. Seriously -_-
One French teen who really does have the condition made some videos about it and the dumb kids who watched it started exhibiting the same sort of thing.
These idiots believed they had it so hard that it even convinced a terrible psychologist to name a syndrome after them.
Stupid people believing stupid things.
This is the world we live in.
Reminds me of when I was a young teen…
There was this kid in school with something wrong badly with his leg so he walked with this rolling, twisted limp all the time. It gave him a real swagger to his movements. I thought it looked cool, so I'd almost unconsciously walk with the same sort of limp.
If that idiot psychologist say that he'd probably imagine I acquired a leg injury by looking at that other boy XD
fallopiancrusader wrote:And that was not an isolated case though fortunately it was among the last in the witch craze. Cotton Mather wrote extensively on witchcraft and it is obvious in the light of modern psychology it was mass hysteria and some of the girls were just plain horny. Reading in book Devil in Massachusetts that one girls symptoms of possession and convulsions went away after having her breast massaged. 🤣 (Remember she was an extremely repressed Puritan. Puritans by and large gave no advice to adolescents in puberty but plenty of beatings if they didn't abstain from everything even thought before marriage)
At least that case of mass hysteria only resulted in hefty hospital bills. If memory serves me correctly, I believe that the Salem witch trials of 1692 were catalyzed by a similar kind of mass hysteria.
These girls with the ouija board just might need to start dating and finding more healthy outlets for their adolescent passions.
At least none of them were double jointed and good at cracking their joints in order to fake a poltergeist.
Once again, as has been the case every single year since 2007, because I hate DST so much, and G.W. Bush really had no reason to extend it in North America as he had, I will not be springing forward tonight, because I do not want start prolonging daylight and delaying night yet; I will wait until April to spring forward like we used to before Dubya extended DST (and likewise, I will be falling back in October instead of November like we used to).
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