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Bugs and Trainwrecks:
A Look Into Illness From This Vampire's Point of View
Flu season come and almost gone, I was one of the
first few people to come down with it. Not a good
time in my year to say the least, but at least it was
over early. This will of course lead into the first
part of this article:
Catching an illness in lacking energy, having energy,
and receiving energy afterwards.
Ok, illness basically starts with a clue that your
body is becoming ill with small symptoms that may not
at first make sense, however within the week you
realize what's going on. I've been through illness in
these past 3 months under each of these energy cycles,
and can tell you aside from receiving energy
afterwards, they aren't much different from each
other, so lets start with being unenergized and
getting ill first.
Ok, being unenergized on its own is a big pain in the
ass as most of you already know, you're tired, weak,
don't feel like doing anything and moody. Enter
gettin sick... For the love of pete steele, nothing is
ever goin right now is it? The body's ability to
fight off bugs of any sort be it the common cold, to
the full out flu is dependant on the amount of health
you have prior to falling victim to said illnesses.
That being said, unenergized vampires are not healthy,
that much is a given, so the amount of time, and the
severity of symptoms that come with being sick are
amplified like you wouldn't believe when there's not
much to fight it back. For myself recovery from an
unenergized state takes so long its ridiculous... I'd
say the amount of time to recover takes about twice as
long as it would in a normal healthy person, or so it
feels, but don't be quite so quick to think being
energized is sooo much better.
During another illness I had during this season, I was
partially energized with a few good feedings behind me
when I got sick the next time, I was feeling pretty
good, of course the first signals of illness hit me
and I knew what was coming, or so I thought I'm better
prepared right? Wrong... So the symptoms don't hit you
QUITE as hard as they would if you were unenergized,
that still doesn't cut the recovery time any, oh the
misfortune, and you think that would totally not make
sense right? It does actually... See, energy lasts
only a certain amount of time, and the body's ability
to fight off illnesses stems only so much from the
energy you have, which donor energy is burned off
right quick, so the duration of the illness being the
same but the symptoms being less severe actually does
make sense... It takes the edge off somewhat, but it
doesn't make it all go smoothly, as one might have
expected. So what happens if you take in energy
afterwards? Or during the more recovering stages of
illness? Glad you asked, as I got to experience that
as well...
Enter being almost done with being sick, symptoms
are less severe, but there, and energy isn't at such a
low level as being full out sick... I found that
taking in energy during that recovering stage makes
the end so much easier, might be because its an extra
boost where the energies aren't burned off so quick
there's no time to recover with your own energies,
might be another reason, but the time it takes to
recover with a late into illness feeding in my own
experience is the best...
Best advice I could give is basically this DON'T
GET SICK, however that's not exactly plausible as most
of us have to go out from time to time and all these
things do stem from associating with other people, so
the only other thing i can suggest is, keep yourself
up as much as possible, avoid as much contact with
people when you're sick as possible because shields
are basically nonexistent when you're unable to keep
up enough energy to help you recover....
As always, any questions or comments on this
article can be sent to demonessbarbie@yahoo.com
Eternal
Barbie Cantu
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