Nice Lady Doctor: What can I help you with today?
Me: I, um, feel awful. I've got a bad cough, wheezing, temperature, chest pains and I keep coughing up grainy, funny-smelling phlegm (I saved the best for last, ya?)...
Nice Lady Doctor: You poor thing! Did you have a cold a while ago?
Me: Yes, but it got better and so I carried on and didn't think anything about it. Now I feel horrible.
Nice Lady Doctor (after having listened to my chest, and taken my temperature): You've got a temperature and there is a wheeze on one side of your chest. It sounds to me like you've got a nasty bacterial chest infection. It probably came on since your cold, because your immune system was low. You need at least a couple of days off work, in bed or watching bad TV and reading Heat magazine (she actually said that!), you'll feel like s**t for a while (she said that too!!), but the penicillin will help.

So dear friends, I'm taking her advice (apart from the Heat bit, I can't remember the last time I actually read a magazine, so I bought myself GoodHousekeeping!). I had to do the awful thing of ringing work and telling them (I feel so guilty) that I wasn't going to be in, even though I promised I'd work Saturday as well. But I really don't feel good, as I type my mind is off with the faeries, and I've got a stonking headache and temperature. So I'm off to bed now, with hot water bottle as the chills are coming and going regularly, and counting my blessings that I haven't got anything worse. Thankyou all for your kind comments - I might be a tad on the tardy side of blogging for a while, forgive me? Oh, and Happy December to all of you ~ what a way to start the month, eh?