not a fluke

[rikibeth]

I am DEFINITELY more efficient if I take my little 99-cent notebook at the beginning of the day and copy down the prep list, rearranging it from the random order it gets put on the whiteboard and putting it in the order I know I'm going to need to do stuff.

It made Derek so happy when he walked past and said "How's it going?" and I said "As soon as I finish the beef, I'm doing the apple pies, I've got everything pulled already." Because the apple pies were 86'ed at the end of last night, and nothing else was, so as soon as I got the beef ground, it had top priority. If I hadn't had pot roast and Wellingtons on the prep list, I might even have done them before beef, since we had one tub left over from yesterday.

Nick organized the freezer for me before City Line showed up because it was driving HIM crazy, and with those stupid Lexans of slider buns, I couldn't get a reasonable jigsaw worked out last week. I had to change some of the things he did when City Line showed up, but it was a damn good start.

Last week they did a deep cleaning on the walk-in, the sort where they had to rent a refrigerated truck for a day to hold everything while they cleaned. Derek changed how it was all organized when he put things back. I'm still learning the new arrangement -- some things are where I expect them, but the produce goes away in a different order, and today it was just confusing.

I can lift 50-pound cases again, but the ones that are 60+ are still kind of challenging. Clearly whatever I had has a longish recovery period.

I'm sure it'll feel back to normal soon.

Comments

[kaninchenzero.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear you're feeling better.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

If this was swine flu, which it may well have been, I have to say I'm not terribly impressed. I HAVE had worse colds!

[kaninchenzero.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this version of it doesn't seem to be that bad -- it's a descendant of the 1918 pandemic virus but is not much different from seasonal flu as far as symptoms go. Which is kind of a huge relief. :)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I refuse to panic about ANY flu that's not provoking cytokine storms. If it's not going to fell a healthy adult (a/k/a, ME) 24 hours from onset, then I can survive it.

And if this was H1N1, then it was significantly milder than the seasonal variant I got over New Year's. That had several days of nasty high fever, a vicious, codeine-NOW-plz cough, eventual copious green phlegm, and fatigue and body aches that kept me in bed for nine days. This was two days of staggering-around-weary with a low fever and the sniffles, and four more days of "wow, I am tired, and since I'm not scheduled at work, I'll sleep."

I think my self-quarantine also kept my housemate & my kid from getting it. Kid gave me the winter one, but self-quarantine kept it away from housemate. Hooray for wireless.

[kaninchenzero.livejournal.com]

I have to worry a bit more. Usually I can survive flu fine too but every once in a while my body flips out and does Weird Shit. Like once a cold turned into bronchitis turned into pneumonia which wound up with me in hospital where they sucked 1500mL of murky greenish fluid out of my chest since it was crushing one lung and my heart. When they cultured it, nothing grew; it was apparently sterile. At some point during that adventure about a third of my red blood cells vanished (it didn't come out of any holes and they were monitoring them all) and they had to give me a transfusion to treat the anemia. No one ever figured out what the fuck was going on.

I got a yeast infection in my throat after they sent me home from the antibiotics.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, having a wonky immune system is no fun at ALL, and makes everything more complicated.

In my case, I haven't had health insurance for nearly ten years (work just had an open enrollment! yay!) so the calculus isn't "what crazy thing will this do to my body?" but "is it likely to resolve without needing a prescription?" If I can get by with rest-and-fluids, or ice-and-compression, then that's what I do.

[head-shrinker.livejournal.com]

Glad it didn't totally knock you out, and is it right to hope that it WAS Swine flu, so you've gotten it done and over with?

I swear I had the swine flu early in the season (in late May, I think) - the doctors wouldn't tell me and I don't think they tested. But that totally put me on my ass for almost a week. It wasn't that I felt sick, per se, outside the first couple days. I was just *exhausted*. I'd like not to have that again, plz!