Typing 'Cause I Can't Sleep

[moon_custafer]

The only bad thing about having a healthy constitution is that when I do get sick, I haven't had any practice at it. I keep wanting to kick and punch something in frustration, and against all reason I feel like a wimpy malingerer when I can't fight this off by sheer will. Not that applying reason helps much either - this feels worse than my usual experience of a cold, but I had my 'flu shots a month or so back, and googling symptoms turns up a herd of zebras galloping ahead of the ponies: No, I'm pretty sure it's not plague, thank you very much - I haven't noticed any buboes, rats or scythe-wielding skeletons leading all ranks of society in a tragi-comic dance.

Grumble grumble cough.

ETA - the doctor at the walk-in clinic thinks it's probably strep, so it's antibiotics for me.

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[crankydon.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I was going to say that Pestilence doesn't have a scythe but when I went to look up what he does have it seems that maybe he does. According to the official occult analysis the First Horseman of the Apocalypse is unambiguously War (who has a sword) and the Second is Famine (who has a pair of scales - presumably to track your weight loss). The Third is, if you'll excuse the pun, plagued with translation problems. It's not clear if he's on a pale white or a light-green horse or whether he's the sickness part that comes after war-induced famine or the Death-in-general part. He actually isn't described in Revelations as having a totem but mediaeval Pop Art often gives him a scythe.

Even worse is the Fourth. Nobody can agree on who he's supposed to be. Maybe Death; maybe Hell (after Death); maybe the Anti-Christ. The Fifth Horseman is easy: Doom Patrol reliably informs us that he's Oblivion and has a spear.

Get well soon!