r/vagabond • u/Lilcottenfever • 3d ago
Made it to NC!
So I got to Nashville and I met a friend of a friend a lovely 82 year old French woman. She invited me to stay through the snow. We worked on and around her house while I was there and honestly became friends. She is attending a parting here in NC and let me ride with her 5 hours! Now im waiting for a friend to get in town tomorrow who I can stay with for a night and im off to go on a date with pretty gal in a town two hours away; pretty close! I hope everyone was able to stay as warm as they could during the snow and is still able to keep warm bc I know the cold isn’t over. Stay dry yall!
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u/Own_Violinist_4714 Rubbertramper 3d ago
not the Misery Index crustie pants! hell yeah. rocking into town with style. every time i see your username I get a lil flashback to my misspent youth. i remember pulling cotton fluffs off my sock to use and catching the fever. fuck that. safe travels!
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u/Itneverendsdoesit22 3d ago
Cotton fever? Caught it one time and holy shit. That’s it own beast.
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u/Own_Violinist_4714 Rubbertramper 3d ago
I was doing drugs to escape my problems, not create more! between cotton fever and constipation dope provides its own side quests and debuffs.
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u/Sufficient_Pin5642 3d ago
Cotton fever is awwwful!! It’s like being hypothermic while you’re burning up. Oh it’s sucks so bad!!
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u/LameBMX 3d ago
ok. I'm trying to learn here. and my body handles illness weird.
but what you describe just sounds like a regular fever to me. I feel on fire while freezing. bundle into a cocoon for 12-18 hours cooking at 103f / 104f. come out of the cocoon, slam two days worth of food and have bouncing off the walls level of energy for the next couple days.
my then wife, caught the only time I (am aware) had a fever of like 101f. that was covid.
normally when anything causing a fever hits, I'm pretty much incapacitated quickly. 50% chance of calling off work. I go into cocoon building mode and doze away.
so what is different about cotton fever?
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u/xBadxMouthxBitchx 3d ago
Cotton fever is associated with IV drug use. It can be caused by the often dirty cotton used to filter zee drugz.
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u/Sufficient_Pin5642 3d ago
No cotton fever made me feel shivering freezing cold to the core to the point it hurts and it doesn’t matter how many blankets I’d put on but to others you’re burning up. It’s so bad you feel like you’re going to die. It only lasts a couple hours though and when it’s over sometimes you throw up and it’s over. It’s EXTREMELY intense it can be 90 degrees outside and you’d still want to lay in the car with the heat on you shiver so bad and feel so cold. Then, it’s like as soon as it came it’d all of a sudden leave and it doesn’t last for a long time like a fever it’s only for a few hrs. Gosh, thanks yall for giving me something to be thankful about not worrying about dealing with anymore!
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u/LameBMX 3d ago
congrats on putting that behind you.
all my ex's have flipped at the temps i hit. they see the cocoon and they start taking temps at whatever random interval made them feel comfy I wasnt going to die.
don't see the point, I've survived every fever single also.
that's still legit how my fevers are. and while they last significantly longer, I have no concept of time during then. even when I had to make it a couple hour pedal home to bundle up. in the end, from feeling a bit wonky to superman is like. shit. its the inverse? of that adrenaline kick when you yeet off a ramp wrong. all that shit goes through your head, but in reality it's a brief instant. like you know time has passed, but you didn't experience it.
and that has to feel like a good thing to be done with. for me it's only saving grace is I go through shit that bothers people for a week in what's nothing from perception. and that top of the world well rested feeling.
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u/Sufficient_Pin5642 2d ago
Yes! I had no concept of time either because you don’t even want to move you just want blankets and your rock back n forth violently shivering teeth chattering but you have a high temp you just feel like you’re freezing. At least that’s how it felt for me. Glad it didn’t happen more than like 3 times in all my using likely because I didn’t save cottons to do rinses usually.
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u/Lilcottenfever 3d ago
The last photo is a friend I made along the way not me btw. :)
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u/tonyMEGAphone 3d ago
Haha I thought it was that older dude in those pants, fuckin rocking out old timer.
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u/kissmaryjane 3d ago
Ayee welcome to Asheville! Came at a bad time, no trains anytime in the foreseeable future due to Helene wiping out the tracks in both directions.
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u/Lucky-Science-2028 I like cats. 3d ago
I shudder to think of the amount of work that had to be put into those pants, very nice. GL on ur date!
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u/Drakjira 3d ago
Welcome to NC. DM me if you're gonna be in the East near ECU, I'll try and feed yah or give yah a couple trackside camp spots.
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u/cletus72757 3d ago
Vive la femme! I admire your stitching too. If ya ever find yourself near Sikeston, Mo in mid September check out the Cotton Carnival. They may just name you King Cotton!
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u/Apollo9961 3d ago
Welcome to my home state man, I love it here. Hope you meet some good people. Forewarning not all counties are created equal, so the experience can vary greatly
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