Lisa and Snoopy,

I thought I remembered reading a profile of the Puls. individual somewhere that sounded like a total loser, yes . I might have confused it with Lachesis or something, I'm not sure. After sending my last post, I went to the Boericke online materia medica and read both Pulsatilla and Nat. mur. Pulsatilla sounded fairly plausible; Nat. mur. didn't sound much like me.

I guess I will get myself to a local homeopath eventually, but I am feeling overwhelmed with cost-cutting and other problems at work--my company was financially shaky even before 9/11--and having just come off the worst case of influenza since my 20s (fever around 103 for several days, almost 104 at one point). That didn't surprise me because I knew I had been exceeding my stress tolerance for a couple of months. I'm finding it quite a challenge just to get myself to the therapist every week, and as you can guess, both my job security and my finances are a tad shaky at the moment (not that I'm alone in having a negative bottom line at this time of year)... so I'm self-prescribing for now, with the help of books, online resources, and kind folks like yourselves. I appreciate your time.

Avalon