illness

[low_delta]

I often get sick on trips. I usually pick up something on the planes. I come down with something about two days after flying. This time, I totally forgot to get a flu shot. And I didn't pick up the bug on the plane. My dad started to feel under the weather on the second tuesday (he'd had a flu shot). His head hurt, and then he got a bad cough. A couple of days later I started feeling crappy. My throat started hurting. Then I was feeling weak. Then my ears started to hurt and my sinuses got stuffed up. I spent the rest of the trip blowing my nose. My ears caused me pain on the flight into London. The first night I was really sick, I couldn't get to sleep for a couple of hours. I slept better the second night I was sick, and the next day I was feeling a bit better. I'm still not back to normal, but yesterday (a 23.5 hour day) I wasn't too bad.

Comments

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

When I said I usually get sick on flights, I should have said that's long flights. Like when we went to Spain. Seldom on US flights. I'd gotten a flu shot before the Spain trip, so it wasn't too bad.

The trips are worth the illness, though. :-)

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Getting pneumonia in Spain may have done Robert for that sort of travel. He was SO sick.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's horrible.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

AIRBORNE! I swear by it now. Drink it before you board, and continuously during the trip. It really does work!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

That's actually pretty similar to what I do. Multivitamin plus a zinc pill. But I was slacking the pills when we were traveling. I wouldn't always remember to take them.

Oh, I see it also has some amino acids. Interesting.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

heh... yeah remembering to take them is the issue!