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I hate being sick

by Samantha Schmalfuss

Ik ben ziek en ik ben moe! Echt ziek! I have the flu! All the achiness and tiredness, plus I go from hot to cold and things taste weird! I stayed home from work on Tuesday and tried to go back yesterday but I only lasted three hours. Now I sort mail into its post codes and after I sort it further into street and house number for delivery. It isn’t hard to do brain power wise but it does take a bit of body work because we all know paper, when in bulk, can be really heavy. After the original sorting into post code, we take the boxes to our little desk and sort it all. Can I tell you how heavy it all felt! Normally I don’t have any trouble but yesterday it hurt so bad to do it. I started to do it and got four or five streets in when I just couldn’t take it any longer and told work I was going home, I shouldn’t have come in after all.

I ride my bike to work every day and it takes ten minutes, twelve tops, but yesterday I actually had to stop to catch my breath and let my heart calm down before I could go on. Madness I tell you. I rarely get sick like this, a cold maybe but not like this so I feel worse than what I should. I keep telling myself I can go to work and do stuff, this is ridiculous! Yet all I did was the dishes and vacuum today and I wanted to die! I lay on the couch and wanted to die. And of course, I don’t have American medicine that masks the symptoms the Dutch just suck it up and does it the old fashioned way; soup, teas, vitamins and bed rest. Oh wait, I take stuff to help me sweat it out but other than that its teas and vitamins to kick this things butt. So I do as the Dutch do it, gently aid my body in fighting it on its own. I was spoiled as an American with all those lovely cold medicines!

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Posted in Medicines and Foods, lifestyle on October 4th, 2007

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  1. momma Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    Yes, our American medicines do make you feel so much better and let you go to work. I know how much you love your new country, but sometimes you do miss those American remedies. Feel better sweetie.

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