CABIN FEVER

Kris has been gone all week and so I've been hosting germs, stomach flu germs.  Actually, Joel has been hosting them.  I've just been hangin' out at the house with Joel all week.  It hit me yesterday, not the germs, the feeling that I had......CABIN FEVER!!!!

There is no remedy in "Where there is No Doctor," one of my favorite books.  But who needs a book when you have the internet?  So I looked it up.

Here is what Wikipedia says (my comments in red):

"Cabin fever is an idiomatic term for a claustrophobic reaction that takes place when a person (that's ME!) or group (no, pretty much just me) is isolated and/or shut in a small space (our home), with nothing (that she wants) to do, for an extended period (since last Saturday) (as in a simple country vacation (yea right) cottage during a long rain or snow (not)). Symptoms include restlessness (yup), irritability (you'll have to ask the boys), irrational frustration with everyday objects (yeah, you should have seen what I did to the dinner spoons and the tape dispenser!  what does that even mean?), forgetfulness (about what?), laughter (yup), excessive sleeping (nope), distrust of anyone they are with (what are the kids up to?), and an urge to go outside even in the rain, snow or dark. (yup)

The phrase is also used humorously to indicate simple boredom from being home alone. (it's not funny people)^[1] The term was first recorded in 1918 (I am pretty sure I've been cooped up in this house that long).^[2] Other references have the term in use at least to 1906. An 1820 reference is to an actual fever, common in Ireland, resulting from eating watery potatoes during wet years. (mental note not to eat potatoes during rainy season)

Wendigo psychosis, a culture-bound syndrome, may be an extreme form of cabin fever which compels those suffering from it to engage in cannibalism. Oh my word!  Someone come get me outta here!