I'm officially giving up!

That's it, I'm done for. I've known for quite a while that my body doesn't like me, and I've tried for mutual hate. It's gone something along the lines of: Body: "Oh really Mind, you think you're gonna get to go to work this week? Well here you go, get a load of this cough!" Mind: "Well body, if you're trying these shenanigans, I'll just ignore them! Let's get cracking!" Body: "Oh, I'll escalate this conflict, here's a fever!" And so forth and so on...usually there's a tie where me (mind) has to take a day or two off, and Body decides to play fair for a good long while after that small victory.

But now, my body has obviously decided that this was my expiration date and from now on, every day I'm still alive is a freebie, and a painful freebie at that. I woke up this morning (yet again) from coughing, but this time, for fun it seems, I got this sudden, sharp pain in my left lung/side and it hurt so much I thought I was gonna throw up. It still hurts if I move/breathe/write/talk and the only reason I'm at work is because I'm refusing to stay home any more. Will you never be satisfied Body? It basically feels like someone has beat me with a baseball bat. Thanks world, now I'm really looking forward to that four course dinner at the fancy restaurant that I'm never gonna get to go to if I don't go with my work today. I hope nothing in my side is broken...

Please do that mumbo-jumbo sending me positive energy thing that Brian keeps talking about! I'm sure that we can beat my body into submission together!

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Body vs Mind 4 - 0

I have yet to win against my body. In the battle of wills, my body is still the stronger of us (though probably just because I have this large amount of people, yeah, you know who you are, who keep telling me to listen to what my body is telling me), and thus, I am on sick leave. Again. she wrote this announcement from her office, where she's not supposed to be, but she promises to leave it soon

I'm sure you're all dying to know what's wrong with me, so here goes: I coughed so hard I might have fractured (though not broken) a rib, and ripped a few muscle tendons(?)muskelfester, jeg vet ikke hva det heter på engelsk. Hjelp meg noen?. The doctor gave me big, strong painkillers and a new prescription for the sweet juice of life, cosylan, and told me I might have Pertussis kikhoste, a decease I thought was extinct. Lucky me. So now they tested me for it, patted me on the back and told me to hope that wasn't it, 'cause then there's nothing to do but wait it out. Oh, and he took lots of tests and sent me to take more tests tomorrow. So no rest for the wicked, I guess. Now, I just have to figure out how I'm going to pay for my medication with my grand total of 0,04kr in my bank account (for the Americans among you I would like to translate, but you have no currency small enough).

The everything test

Curtesy of mirazandar I took the everything test and found out about me. I'm not sure I like the result...I mean, I know I'm kind of a workaholic, but they call me lazy, and I'd like to think that I was more of a rebel than a traditionalist...but hey, they rated my life NC-17. It doesn't get better than that (unless it's porn, and I don't want my life to be porn)

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