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i’m a little horse

Or wait, perhaps more hoarse than horse. And perhaps more silent than either of those, since it hurts to talk. Oh, and I noticed a new symptom today. Either you know what is going on there, or you don’t, and if you do, you know what my new symptom is. Probably just because my ‘sick’ diet hasn’t exactly been the best. Today I felt like I was subsisting on orange juice, generic Chloraseptic, and Halls’ cough drops. Well, except that I kept eating real (hot/warm) food, and it felt better on my throat than anything liquid, cold, or medicated. Anyway, I ought to have been sleeping hours ago.

i’m a sick boy

I feel like I’m sick with something totally different, like I’m two or three or maybe four days into a different illness altogether. Actually, this is the third distinct (maybe fourth, if two were very similar) type of cough I’ve been experiencing over the last week and a half. And my throat has been SO sore all day today (and still). Like I’m into the part of a throat infection where my own body’s immune system is systematically destroying thousands or millions of my throat cells to try to stop the spread of the virus they carry. Except with a relatively thick output from the nose and a light, unproductive cough that doesn’t burn and doesn’t seem deep, but hurts bad because of the throat pain it exacerbates. And here’s the oddest symptom I’ve had (that I can recall right now) since I started having symptoms a week and a half ago: My backside is sore. From right around the sit bones, down the backs of my legs to about the knees, like I was working out just the backs of my thighs or like I fell hard into a seat a couple days ago and the bruising is beginning to heal… except there’s no apparent bruising, and I don’t remember falling or working out. So. Weird. Weirder than the rash, which is now invisible, but which left a bit of a rough patch where it was worst… nothing major, should fade with time. No real fever. About 90 degrees right now. Oh, and lethargy. I’ve got that in spades. I”m off to bed now. Only been home half an hour or so, but I certainly shouldn’t stay up any later than I have to.

Did I mention that I woke up this morning at like, 3:30AM and couldn’t get back to sleep until a bit after 5AM? Yeah. Dumb.

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my throat hurts

I think I talked too much today/tonight. My throat is much more sore/hoarse right now than it was yesterday, or when I woke up today. Also, I had a migraine today, and I think something in some Cold Stone Creamery ice cream my sister bought me for lunch today set it off. Stupid ice cream. Not the cold, no, brain freeze I can tell from migraines. This was a full-on ocular migraine.

i’m not dead yet

still have an intermittent cough. survived the NIN concert – took my sister who doesn’t like NIN or industrial music or anything that was going on at the concert – but had a reasonably good time myself. I wrote a few words in a paper journal about the experience, I may adapt and re-post them here later – they’re not exactly about the concert, more about being totally alone in the world. I used 26 hours of PTO last week being sick, and by now my department is totally overflowing with a backlog of work. Plus one of the regular employees is out on vacation this week. I have to work “early” tomorrow, because the company isn’t open as late as normal for the holiday, so I’m going to bed post-haste, so I can get up at, like, 6AM. It’ll probably take me a couple of weeks to get the department caught up, and then I’ll continue to not get any recognition for working harder than anyone they’ve ever had working there, because I’m apparently invisible.

Did you know that things cost money? It’s beginning to be a hassle.