• Flu shot is essential. I do wonder how my little girl can endure this virus and get over it in a day while I am absolutely crawling.
• I used her tea pot as a neti pot in a desperate attempt to clear my nasal passages so I can get a good night’s sleep. It helped a bit but didn’t really do as well as the real one should. I ordered the real neti pot online. She will miss her little teapot.
• A friend told us about a friend of a friend who was massaging someone in Manila. He’s apparently like THE masseuse to go to there. Anyway, this masseuse said he was talking to his client, this white dude, who said he used to be a police but now he’s doing concerts. He’s even doing concert in one of the biggest arenas in the Philippines. The client who used to be a police was Sting. He used to be part of Police but the masseuse obviously misheard it. I wonder if Sting was humbled that there’s actually someone on the planet who doesn’t know him.
• What do you do when the flu kicks your ass so much you can’t sleep because your sinuses are totally clogged? You google home remedies and make them. Nothing worked so far. It turns out a viral cause for blocked sinuses can only be cured by getting better.
• We finally found a new place. Cheaper rent, bigger place, better house. With a fireplace too. And it’s beside a primary school. Yes, I have asked for an enrolment form even if my little one hasn’t turned four yet.
• I took on Mama Grace’s challenge this week and woke up before 7am. Monday and Tuesday went really well. The dogs didn’t know what hit them when I decided to walk them so early in the morning. But then the flu punched me in the gonads and that was that. I still kept waking up early though, only because my nose is so clogged up I couldn’t go back to sleep. At least I’m consistent eh?
• I was looking forward to a 50s themed party tonight which is looking like a dead goal. I can hardly swallow because my glands are so swollen. My Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany’s new dress will be sad. My new hookers-will-be-shamed red lipstick will go into depression. My new longer-than-yo-mama’s fake eyelashes will melt and die. What can you do? I am barely breathing.
• In a haze with the flu and parenting alone for the weekend. Hubby’s off to Tassie to see his dad, who is not getting better. I hope one day we can travel because we want to. Not because it’s triggered by something.
I know there’s light at the end of the tunnel folks. I just need to sleep.
Hope you feel better soon…we’ve got colds and flus, runny noses and blocked noses along with sore throats doing the rounds here too
Don’t know which is worse – me feeling crap or kids being sick!
I reckon all of the above sucks!
Flu is the worst, especially when you’re a busy mum with little chance for a proper rest. Wishing you better soon x
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Oh, I can relate! I’ve been sick since the end of April. I missed my 10th anniversary dinner at Aria. I haven’t been to Pilates since May. That’s once since April. I have had a sinus infection that took four lots of antibiotics, daily boiling of my head, various other remedies etc to finally kick. Then I got an ear infection, followed by a chest infection and now I have bronchitis. If I was a horse, I’d be a Pritt stick by now!
I hope the dreaded lurgies leave you and do it SOON! I highly recommend Sinupret Forte, copious amounts of sinus rinse (I like the one that comes in an aerosol can) and coating yourself liberally in Vicks. Oh, and don’t forget to boil your head! One bowl of hot water, one drop of eucalyptus oil (if you can stand it), one towel and one stuffed up head with swollen sinuses). Combine the two. I liked to pretend it was part of a facial just to make myself feel a little better about the whole hideous process!
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Thanks for the tips! Doing them all after I type this. Just got new sinus spray as I finished the last batch. Ugh.
Hope your feeling better soon. It sux when were sick. Congrats on finding a house. We are in the stage where we have to look to move soon.
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Moving sucks. That’s why we took our time and only really move after we found the right place.
Yeah it’s a good idea to find the right place first then move. We have until the beginning of august to find a place.
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If we really like the place and we know it’s competitive, we offer a higher rent than advertised. It’s harder to get picked when you have dogs so need to be competitive.
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Oh dear, that sounds like a whole lot of ‘not fun’. I hope you feel better soon, and that the weekend with your hubby away goes quickly for you.
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But ummmm, K? Did I read this correctly? He used to be a police but now he’s doing concerts…… He was massaging THE Sting?! That is soooooo damn hilarious.
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Yep, THAT Sting! It was hilarious! Really funny story hehe.
Oh man, K. Hope you get better soon. And yes, consistency totally counts!
Great news about the new place. Woot! x
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I blame you for this! I’ll probably end up waking up early next week too!
Oh you poor thing. I hope you feel better soon. We’ve just had a 5 week stint of the flu here, and naturally everyone coughs in Mummy’s face, so I had it harder and longer than the rest of them. When told to cover her mouth and turn her head to cough, Miss6 actually said – and I quote – “Caring is sharing Mum!”.
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I’d love to know of any good home remedies, I’m battling a crappy flu right now too. Who isn’t?! I”m such a wuss though, I hate gargling things or putting stuff up my nose
Worst patient ever.
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Hope your feeling better soon. It sux when were sick. Congrats on finding a house.
I hope you get better soon! I hate the flu and it sounds like you have a bit going on so sickness double sucks.
Hope you guys recover and keeping J’s father in prayer too.
kalooy sad tawon…sinus go away!