I have Captain Trips.
Okay, not really. (And that’s a reference to the super flu that decimates the population in The Stand, for those of you holding out from the summer fun that is The Standalong.)
But damn if it doesn’t feel like it at times.
I finally went to the doctor this morning, after my sore throat woke me up at 1:30 in the freakin’ morning and kept me up for most of the rest of the night.
The verdict? It’s just a cold. Yeah, thanks a lot Mr Doctor Dude. It doesn’t feel like a cold. IT FEELS LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD.
Ahem. Never read Stephen King when you’re sick. It leads to paranoia and exaggeration.
I hope you feel better soon!
Oh, sheesh! I can only imagine reading this book and having a cold! Good ole Captain Trips, gets in the way every time. I’m enjoying the book, I hope you are, too. Well, as much as you can in such a bluuuueeeeee state.
Aw, I hope you feel better soon Jillllllll!!!!!! I started sneezing a LOT today and I’m reading The Stand too…talk about some paranoia :p
You definitely shouldn’t be reading The Stand while you’re sick. It’s kind of like the time I read Stephen King’s The Mist on an incredibly foggy night — when I was living in an apartment on the edge of a grocery store parking lot.
Not fun! I hope you feel better soon! I came down with something on my trip to DC and it stunk majorly – tissues shoved in every pocket of my cargo shorts and still not enough to blow my nose as we hiked all over the city. Now I’ve just got some inner-ear thing left over making it seem like I’m living on a sailing ship. Here’s hoping you avoid that side effect!
Oh no! I hope you feel better soon and I can imagine that reading The Stand during it doesn’t help with the paranoia. I’m a worrier in general so it didn’t help reading a book like The Stand when I started feeling sniffle-y last week. I hope Mr Doctor Dude (love that!) is right about it just being a cold.
You got that right. I started getting sick at Disney World and I’ve never been so self-conscious of where I sneezed and coughed in my life. I could just picture everyone around me catching it and falling over dead!
I started The Stand a few years ago during a bad bout of bronchitis. I had the exact symptoms as the people in the book. I put it down and never got back to it.
I have seasonal allergies and sneezed a bumch while reading it. I thought I might be dying.
Sore throats suck! I’ve found Throat Coat tea to be very soothing, sometimes even better than OTC pain killers. Hope you feel better soon! (Also, glad you’re not dying!)
Damn that Captain Trips! I think you need to get yourself one of those survival tees. I got sick right after starting The Stand–though I blame the carrier monkeys at Elle’s daycare. I’m STILL not feeling 100 percent. I’m with you…I think Captain Trips is making a comeback…
Feel better.
Oh yes … The Stand is NOT a book to be reading when you get sick. Get better soon … or at least get out of the tunnel with all the dead bodies!
Ahhh….. now I understand why I held out on The Stand…. I wanted to read it but I didn’t commit…. obviously it was because I knew I couldn’t handle the Captain Trips.
Feel better, I wish I had some magic remedies!