Tai Chi & Sickness
Jan. 14th, 2009 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aThe two main axes of my life this week continue to be Tai Chi and sickness. Well, next week this time they'll hopefully be sunshine and swimming.
Tai Chi is with us through tomorrow evening. We seem to have settled into a routine.
In the morning when I get up, he's going stir crazy in my office and insists on going out. So, I let him. He wanders a bit, gets hissed at by the other cats, and eventually returns to the office, his exploration urges curbed (usually for the rest of the day). After that, I can leave the door open, and he'll just watch.
Melody says he's a scaredy-cat and that seems to be the case, because as far as I can see he just gets too nervous about all the other cats staring (and hissing) at him.
Of our cats, Munchkin and Lucy have the most notable reactions.
Munchkin mainly wants to get into the office to eat Tai Chi's food, drink his water, and roll in his cat nip. If I open the door, she'll run in, making a bee line for the food.
Lucy is psychotic. (There's news.) Sometimes she sniffs Tai Chi very friendly like. Sometimes she just stares at him. Sometimes she makes like she's going to attack.
Well, Tai Chi will be back in his nice, safe otherwise-cat-free home tomorrow night.
Still sick, though much better. This cold is the worst I've had in years--there were two nights when I scarcely slept--but it seems to be passing quickly, for which I'll thank much Zinc when I just started showing symptoms.
I did some reading on common colds this week, and was astounded to learn that the average person gets 2-5 colds a year. Bleh! That's like a month of sickness on average out of each year.
Back when I used to work at an office, I'd get one cold a year, like clockwork. I still socialize plenty nowadays, but without the tight working environment, colds have grown pretty infrequent. I think I had the flu two years ago, and maybe a cold two years before that, though I don't properly remember.
I'm hoping that this will be passed by the weekend, in any case.
Not going to Endgame tonight though, as I'm still a bit weak, and could technically be contagious on the outside, since it's five days since I started with the symptoms. Probably just as well to not expose myself to a large crowd just before the vacation as well.
Tai Chi is with us through tomorrow evening. We seem to have settled into a routine.
In the morning when I get up, he's going stir crazy in my office and insists on going out. So, I let him. He wanders a bit, gets hissed at by the other cats, and eventually returns to the office, his exploration urges curbed (usually for the rest of the day). After that, I can leave the door open, and he'll just watch.
Melody says he's a scaredy-cat and that seems to be the case, because as far as I can see he just gets too nervous about all the other cats staring (and hissing) at him.
Of our cats, Munchkin and Lucy have the most notable reactions.
Munchkin mainly wants to get into the office to eat Tai Chi's food, drink his water, and roll in his cat nip. If I open the door, she'll run in, making a bee line for the food.
Lucy is psychotic. (There's news.) Sometimes she sniffs Tai Chi very friendly like. Sometimes she just stares at him. Sometimes she makes like she's going to attack.
Well, Tai Chi will be back in his nice, safe otherwise-cat-free home tomorrow night.
Still sick, though much better. This cold is the worst I've had in years--there were two nights when I scarcely slept--but it seems to be passing quickly, for which I'll thank much Zinc when I just started showing symptoms.
I did some reading on common colds this week, and was astounded to learn that the average person gets 2-5 colds a year. Bleh! That's like a month of sickness on average out of each year.
Back when I used to work at an office, I'd get one cold a year, like clockwork. I still socialize plenty nowadays, but without the tight working environment, colds have grown pretty infrequent. I think I had the flu two years ago, and maybe a cold two years before that, though I don't properly remember.
I'm hoping that this will be passed by the weekend, in any case.
Not going to Endgame tonight though, as I'm still a bit weak, and could technically be contagious on the outside, since it's five days since I started with the symptoms. Probably just as well to not expose myself to a large crowd just before the vacation as well.