Oh cr ... no.
Nov. 3rd, 2011 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularChanging weather sometimes brings with it infections passed along by people whose bodies didn't adapt quickly enough to the changing seasons.
It's gotten cold in Athens. Not talking Greenland-level cold, but definitely closer to winter than summer.
This afternoon I got a call from the building managers, saying they'd had requests to turn on the central heating in the building, and asking if I agreed?
Oh yeah, I said, shivering in my apartment.
Where I'm riding out one of those infections. Stomach bug. Nasty one.
And in trying to figure out exactly what to tell the doctor who I called to come by the apartment, I stumbled across something unexpected when I checked translations...
..."lack of appetite" translates directly as "anorexia". The "a" is a negative, and "orexi" is literally "appetite".
So ... yeah. Apparently, since I went to lunch yesterday, and ended up only eating a hunk of bread to try to settle my stomach, and had to force myself to do that much, in Greek, that's anorexia. Not anorexia nervosa, mind - normally, I can eat just fine, maybe a bit too much - but that's what the bug does.
Among other things not suitable for discussion in polite company...
It's gotten cold in Athens. Not talking Greenland-level cold, but definitely closer to winter than summer.
This afternoon I got a call from the building managers, saying they'd had requests to turn on the central heating in the building, and asking if I agreed?
Oh yeah, I said, shivering in my apartment.
Where I'm riding out one of those infections. Stomach bug. Nasty one.
And in trying to figure out exactly what to tell the doctor who I called to come by the apartment, I stumbled across something unexpected when I checked translations...
..."lack of appetite" translates directly as "anorexia". The "a" is a negative, and "orexi" is literally "appetite".
So ... yeah. Apparently, since I went to lunch yesterday, and ended up only eating a hunk of bread to try to settle my stomach, and had to force myself to do that much, in Greek, that's anorexia. Not anorexia nervosa, mind - normally, I can eat just fine, maybe a bit too much - but that's what the bug does.
Among other things not suitable for discussion in polite company...
