Oh cr ... no.

[bktheirregular]

Changing 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...

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[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

It's anorexia in English medical parlance too-- you either know the eating disorder is meant contextually or the adjective nerviosa gets added.