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[caddyman]

I feel awful. I think I might have the ague, the only good thing about it being the name: aig-you.

It must be that, because I am by turns hot and cold; I can't stop sweating, and am sneezing a lot. I also feel a bit heavy behind the eyes. I haven't started the shivering yet, but at this rate it is only a matter of time.

It can't be malaria because there was no mosquito involved and I don't live near a swamp (although I believe that there are genuine fears that malaria mosquitoes may be breeding again in the Heathrow area), so there is little chance of me entering history as the first man since Oliver Cromwell to die of natively contracted malaria (I think I am right in saying that he was the last person recorded to have died of malaria contracted in England).

My first thought was that I have hay fever, but that's not something I am generally prone to (pace Cherry Tree at the end of the road), and when I am in parts rural I have nary a sniff. It could be, and probably is, the chemical miasma that is London air.

Either way it is inconvenient and uncomfortable, and I should like to curl up and die quietly in the dark rather than sit at my desk working, if that is all right with everybody else.

Comments

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

It could be influenza, or glandular fever, maybe ;-) I'd put money on it being a form of flu. Hope you recover soon.

[romney.livejournal.com]

I think you will find that Cromwell was the last important man to so die. Cromwell will continue to hold the title when your malaria-riddled body stops moving and your have uttered your fevered and delirious epitaph (does the world need yet another remark about the wallpaper?

And leave your body to science. Scientists need a good laugh sometimes.

[thalinoviel.livejournal.com]

There there. Get yourself some lemsips and curl up in your chair. Your colleague sleeps every afternoon: why shouldn't you?