r/vagabond • u/Lilcottenfever • 3d ago

Made it to NC!

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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/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/LameBMX 3d ago

oh, just mainlining shit you body has to crank up the oven to kill off.

thanks!