chess | Wah wah wah.

I am still horribly ill and now paracetamol isn't dealing with it any more. I have been ill in some manner since early September and it is getting irritating now. I would have made a doctor's appointment except their website is down so I need to wait until I can phone them. I thought I was getting better but no, this weekend I have come down with HEAD ASPLODE (I think I am probably running a fever but I can't check because the only thermometer in the house is a big water thermometer covered in leather goo). So I have a headache that paracetamol won't touch, tasty tasty nausea, and when I tried to go to the shops for bread I almost didn't make it back to the house (maybe an exaggeration but it felt rather more like a two-hour hike than a five-minute shopping expedition - not looking forwards to the fifteen-minute trek to the doctors', but how else do I get there?). On top of my general breathing failure from having a stuffy nose.

I was trying to be asleep but lying down with no source of distraction just makes everything worse (although expending enough energy to type makes my fingers feel like I've been lifting weights with them - basically moving / thinking / breathing / everything is much more difficult than it ought to be). I keep thinking there must be something I can do to make myself feel better, but nothing helps.

And Nicholas is still in Lincolnshire :(.