My step-father is violent, volatile and sick in the head

There is really something wrong with my step-father's mental facilities. Seriously wrong.

Just after dinner, I quickly left the family room to go to the toilet and when I came back, he was taking my plate away, telling me how much of a "lazy bludger" I was for leaving my plate there. I told him I just went to the bathroom and was going to rinse my plate when I came back (less than a minute later), he still continued to call me a "lazy bludger". As if my presence back in the room less than a minute later was an insult to him, because it proved him wrong, but he didn't want to admit it! The idiot!

A short while after that, he started to wash the dishes. He then started complaining really loudly what a "lazy, son-of-a-bitch, dirty bludger" I was because he seemed to think I emptied the pan with the herbs I had used for steam inhalation into the sink. Of course I didn't do that, my mother did, but of course he wouldn't believe me when I told him I did not. And in any case, it's not something to get that upset about. He was acting like someone spilled their shit in the sink and he had to clean it up. It was just some wet herbs, for God's sake!

I went to the lounge room where my mother was and told her to tell him to stop accusing me of doing something I didn't do and to stop yelling at me, for no reason! She said she did it, but the idiot, obnoxious, volatile step-father wouldn't take her word and started yelling at me even more loudly, telling me that he was going to "watch me" from now, in case I threw herbs in the sink in future.

Of course it upset me, because he just continues to say really horrible things to me, saying that I am "good for nothing" and "lazy" and "shit" and just yelling at me. He then even started yelling at my mother too, telling her to "fuck off". He was upset that he was proved wrong and got even more mad that he was wrong for yelling at me, so he continued to yell at me more!

And he continued to yell, to no-one, because he was by himself in the kitchen, for over 1/2 an hour, complaining bitterly about everything. When my mother went in there to see what he was complaining about, one of the things was a bowl of cut up cabbage leaves (the end bits that I don't eat) that was going to the chickens in the morning, he was upset that it was on the sink because it was bothering him! And even when I coughed a few times from the other room, he started complaining about my coughing, as if I was putting it on or something when I am not yet recovered. What a foolish idiot he is!

He is getting more and more volatile and sick in the head.

All he ever does is yell, complain and yell some more. There is absolutely no reason for it. He is a sick man!

Really bad, virulent flu infection is finally getting better

I have been feeling so sick since Saturday - that is just about a week of feeling so miserable and ill.

I got a really bad, virulent flu infection that had me laid down low in bed for the best part of this week!

The lovely flu virus (whatever strain it was) caused me to have: fever and chills, runny nose, inflamed sinuses (sinusitis), blocked sinuses, headache, sore throat, lethargy, cough, aching bones and muscles.

The coughing was so bad, my diaphragm started convulsing from the severity of the coughing. It almost felt like I couldn't breathe properly, because once I started coughing, I couldn't stop.

The coughing started on Wednesday night and I went to hospital, but after an hour and half of sitting in the waiting room, feeling worse by the minute, I decided to go home because while I was there, only three people had been called in and when I asked at reception, there were still three people ahead of me, so that meant it would take at least another hour and half of sitting there at least (so three hours in all) before I was even seen by the doctor. I couldn't wait that long any more. I decided to go home and take my chances - I would see a doctor the next day instead.

I saw a doctor on Thursday who told me that I had the flu, but now I had a cold. How does the flu virus suddenly morph into a cold virus? I thought that you had the flu and it got better after a week or so of bed rest, fluids, herbal tea and steam inhalation. Doctors! Some of them have no clue, whatsoever!

I felt very weak and lethargic driving to the doctors on Thursday, I didn't have much energy and felt like falling asleep while I was driving. I just wanted to close my eyes, but I didn't. After seeing the doctor, who told me my lungs were clear as was my throat (yet I was so sick), I went to the chemist to get some herbs and vitamins to treat my symptoms. I bought some olive leaf extract syrup (it has known and potent anti-viral properties), some cold and flu vitamins, as well as some honey and lemon lozenges to ease my sore throat.

In addition to this, I had been blowing the junk out of my nose every day, with my sinuses so totally inflamed and hurting, that even my upper teeth started hurting too!

My nasal passages are still inflamed and my voice still reflects the congestion in my upper and lower respiratory systems - it is so husky and deep, one week into having this flu, but at least after taking the supplements from Thursday, my symptoms have improved dramatically!  I went from not being able to sleep much, having lots of head and sinus pain, coughing as if I was about to cough up my lungs, to feeling a lot better.  I am not 100% recovered, but I am much better than I was yesterday morning, so if I continue taking these supplements, I should improve over the next few days.