Updatia

[ellyssian]

Poetry tonight - at the Moravian Book Store, 7pm in Bethlehem.

Of course, I may not read much. Small thing about my voice deciding rebellion is a good thing, even if it gets a little collateral damage as the damn cold heads from my nose down to my lungs. Just as the lungs were starting to think breathing is something they can handle and asthma can be brought under control.

Deb's sick too, stuffed up nodse, sore throat, et al. Rachel is finally kicking the thing, still coughing a bit in the morning and before bed though. Justin still has it bad, and Brandon is just a pitiful little guy when he starts coughing - although he's quick to be all happy smiley at other times. Even while ejecting a recently ate meal. So he's the only one showing any impact in the digestive tract from this/these round(s) of bug(s).

I'm hoping that, sooner or later, we get a week where not one of is sick, getting sick, or getting over being sick, because we just haven't had that this calendar year. Hmmm, next year, we may react to shouts of "Happy New Year!" by ducking and covering.

Comments

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

I still think you may all have some allergy problems thrown into the mix--it's unreal how you have all had to go through this over and over. Maybe you all need to stay with me for a while, hey? Hate to say it, but could tree allergens be a culprit? Spring is the worst allergy/asthma time for me, yielding me your symptoms (minus any stomach stuff) every year without fail, just not as strongly as you all suffer.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

If it's anything local, it's probably breathing lead.

Then again, my cold got worse each time I was up in Massachusetts! =P

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

I agree with your mom, it really does sound like you all, especially you, have some allergies. My next door neighbors thought that their youngest son had severe asthma, nope, turned out to be a TON of food allergies that were affecting him, biggest of them being wheat. It certainly can't hurt to get some testing done ranging from food to outside stuff.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm on two different allergy medicines right now - the other ones we've tried were all inefective. These ones seem mostly ineffective as well.

Allergies also tend not to pass from one person to another like an infectious disease, which is what's happening here. While it could be argued that we all are getting these same symptoms at different times, due to different levels of reactions to the allergens, I highly doubt it. Not an impossibility, but it's much more likely that this is exactly what it seems: something passed from (in this case) Rachel to Justin to Brandon to me to Deb.