I'm sick

[cameronian]

There are some compensations to being ill; spent all day in bed on the 1st listening to the excellent BBC 'War and Peace' marathon (all ten glorious hours of it) on Radio 4; must say it was one of the best pieces of radio drama I've ever hears - apart from Dennisov's excrable cod Scottish accent.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You feeling any better sir?

[Steve J]

Cold developed into bronchitis . Now on antibiotics which fingers crossed are working.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ouch.

[Steve J]

As I have bronchial asthma not the best thing to have. Feeling a lot better than two days ago though, so hopefully on the mend...

[Techno]

Last time I had bronchitis was about 12 years ago.....Took three lots of different anti-b's to get rid of it, 'cos I left it so long before I went to the quack's.

I just loved reading the possible side effects of the final 'kill or cure' pills.
One of the side effects......Death.

Nearly didn't take them ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

I just loved reading the possible side effects of the final 'kill or cure' pills.
One of the side effects......Death.

Of course, as one doctor said when I joked about that particular side effect of something I was about to take, Death is often an even more likely possible side effect of not taking them too. 

[Subedai]

As I have bronchial asthma not the best thing to have. Feeling a lot better than two days ago though, so hopefully on the mend...

I feel your pain. Back in 91 I had what the local 'horse vet' called a 'chest infection' for about six nasty weeks before it was finally diagnosed as full blown Bronchial Pneumonia. The pain from coughing was excruciating because of over exerted chest muscles but the illness made you want to cough. Fecking nightmare. I spent three days in what was then Dudley Road Hospital in Brum on a drip with additional oral antibiotics to shift it. Off work for four weeks and had to have a chest x-ray before I was given the all clear. Mind you, in one way it was the best ailment I ever had because I have not smoked a cigarette since August 11th, 1991, 2:30 in the afternoon.

Get better soon.

[Steve J]

This is the fourth time I've had it and being a bronchial asthmatic know to get any chest infections checked out straight away. It seems I've caught it in time for once...

[Subedai]

Glad to hear it. My internal medical memory goes into overdrive if I start to develop a chesty cough, I'm straight to the vets, just in case.

[holdfast]

Hi Cameronian, I thought that War and Peace is much better in the original Russian. What do you think?

[cameronian]

Hi Cameronian, I thought that War and Peace is much better in the original Russian. What do you think?

Even better in Xhosa.

[Techno]

Bless you !
Still haven't shifted the germs yet then, Cam.
(I'll get my own coat.)
Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

No, no, no. "War and Peace" was originally written in French. Tolstoy did his first draft in French then translated it as a final, Russian version. It was an experiment he tried on some short stories in the late 1860's, feeling that French would release his creativity, and that thinking in a second language would make him more thoughtful about his language. It may have been fun for a short story, but he found writing "War and Peace" in French exhausting, and there is some thought that he gave up quite early on (possibly as early as the end of book 1) and reverted to writing in Russian only. Writer and critic Nikolai Akhsharumov thought that he could detect the change in language, though most translations into English aren't nuanced enough to be be noticeable.