Foo - Foo Sick Bay

Welcome to the Foo Sick Bay. :)

Here you will find healthy Foo'ers checkin' in on you from time to time, offering chicken soup, tea, Nyquil, and tissues. If you need anything else, related only to sickness, eh, let us know. And stay the h3ll away from the rest of us so we don't all get sick. mmkay? :D

Here, have some chicken soup, some tea, and a cool compress. Up to you to go for the Nyquil and tissues. :D

What about pulled muscles?

Just like the doctor ordered

Maybe we should set up a, uh, "members-only" sub-forum for "Pulled-Muscle Massage"? <innocent Vega look>

Maybe we should set up a, uh, "members-only" sub-forum for "Pulled-Muscle Massage"? <innocent Vega look>

Good thinking, especially since it's a hip flexor.

Since I didn't see the insomnia thread handy...I'll post here. My back and shoulder have been bothering me for over a week now. The doctor gave me some meds and I took them around 6 pm tonight....slept like a rock until 12:30 am now I'm wide awake. The shoulder is feeling O.K. bu the back just keeps tightening up and keeps me from sleeping well. Uggh.

Too late! All of BF has caught my Martian Death Flu! The whole site must be quarantined and none of us allowed to leave!

Good thinking, especially since it's a hip flexor.

Hippy Hippy Shake
Originally performed by The Swinging Blue Jeans in 1964, and # 24 Top 40 hit
Remade in 1988 by The Georgia Satellites

For goodness sake, I got the hippy hippy shake,
Yeah I got the shake, I got the hippy hippy shake. (Whoooo)

I can't set still, with the hippy hippy shake,
Yeah I get my fill now, with the hippy hippy shake.
Yeah it's back,
The hippy hippy shake.

Well now you shake it to the left
Shake it to the right,
Do the hippy shake shake, with all of your might,
Oh baby, yeah come on shake,
Oh it's in the bag, (Whoooo)
The hippy hippy shake.

(SOLO)

Well now you shake it to the left
Shake it to the right,
Do the hippy shake shake, with all of your might,
Oh baby, yeah come on shake,
Oh it's in the bag, (Whoooo)
The hippy hippy shake.

(Another SOLO)

Well now you shake it to the left
Shake it to the right,
Do the hippy shake shake, with all of your might,
Oh baby, yeah come on shake,
Oh it's in the bag, (Whoooo)
The hippy hippy shake.

The hippy hippy shake.
The hippy hippy shake.

Since I didn't see the insomnia thread handy...I'll post here. My back and shoulder have been bothering me for over a week now. The doctor gave me some meds and I took them around 6 pm tonight....slept like a rock until 12:30 am now I'm wide awake. The shoulder is feeling O.K. bu the back just keeps tightening up and keeps me from sleeping well. Uggh.
Soma? That's what usually works for a chronic back situation for me. It hits me about once a year, and if I take a Soma, it keeps me from guarding, which as you know, can make a pain situation worse. If the pain persists beyond that, I take a Darvocet. And, of course, I work on stretching the affected muscles gently so as to get off of all meds as quickly as possible. Usually within two days, max.

My main back trouble seems to be in the thoracic region. Where does everyone else have problems? I know that the lumbar region is the most common.... <rootin' around for the "Insomnia" thread>

Almost always lumbar. Must be because I sit in a chair for a living. :o

Somebody oughta check www.bikeforums.net into the sick bay. Bikeforums.net is ailing and failing pretty frequently. More than any other riders i know.

Welcome to the Foo Sick Bay. :)

Here you will find healthy Foo'ers checkin' in on you from time to time, offering chicken soup, tea, Nyquil, and tissues. If you need anything else, related only to sickness, eh, let us know. And stay the h3ll away from the rest of us so we don't all get sick. mmkay? :D

Here, have some chicken soup, some tea, and a cool compress. Up to you to go for the Nyquil and tissues. :D

Hell i live in MD, far away from most people here on the forum.

Thank you, VV. The strep is much better, but I forgot how unpleasant amoxycillin is. It doesn't matter how much yoghurt/kombucha/probiotic supplements I consume...:eek: One more day, and I won't be contagious anymore.

I highly recommend antique linen handkerchiefs for keeping the skin around your nose from getting raw.

Thanks for the advice on the hankies. I'll remember that next time I'm under the weather.

Here, have some chicken soup. :D

Thank you. I was getting somewhat tired of goose broth. :)

Something fierce struck me down this weekend. I had a serious fever, and I even tried more cowbell. :(

I think I'mma drive to the bus stop tomorrow. I'm still wheasing. Damn you, martian death flu.

So sorry, ax0n. Here, have some chicken soup. And a soothingly cool cloth for your forehead. :D

Axon, has the fever subsided and do you have a sore throat? I didn't even imagine I had strep throat. I just went to the Dr to see if he'd write me an Rx for guaifenesin for my cough.

The fever's gone. Read my blog for gorey details, but basically it started as a World-of-Warcraft-induced head cold on tuesday, turning into some kind of bronchitis Friday, peaking its stranglehold on my existance last night, and finally subsiding today. Now all that's left is sore ribs and a little bit of a cough.

How did everyone sleep? Feeling a wee bit better today?

Here, have some hot tea. :D

Yes, even you, ax0n. :rolleyes: Even though you called me a liar. :( :p

I slept good, nut now I've got the "lump" problem. As described in my thread.

It's Monday and I'm sick of work already. I need some of them eyeglasses with the pop-eyeballs so I can take a snooze and look like I'm awake. Or maybe a note from my mommy?

Dear Chip's boss,

Chip has a common disease - sickoworkee - that can only be cured by giving him the rest of the winter off - with pay. Thank you for your cooperation.

Chip's Mommy.

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Bones, could you pass me the salt?

DAMMIT JIM, I'M A DOCTOR, NOT A BUSBOY!

Hey, SD! Where ya been? I was lookin' around for you night before last. :rolleyes:

Sleepin' better?

A blurb on the news this morning about January 22nd being the most depressing day of the year. It is the mid-point of winter, credit card bills from Christmas have arrived, many folks are sick, and cabin fever.

We are having pretty nice weather down here... (I usually decide to not say anything about our weather around February - it starts getting dangerous for me to comment)

my back hurts feels like someone put a knife between
my shoulder blades which is unusual it's usually my lumbar region.

sigh, time to go home and take some flexoril