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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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