Mucus update
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Today is the 7th day of my most recent sickness, although since I began feeling badly last Saturday night, one could argue that this is actually the 8th day. This past week has been a complete and total loss for me, since I have been unable to go to work or do anything productive at home. And while I have been improving each day since Thursday, I have to say that it is really freakin slow improvement. Today I am still experiencing the delightful body-wrenching hacking cough, though in fairness it generally only appears in the morning and evening. My head is quite full of mucus, too, which is an all-day experience. And my throat, of course, is still pretty sore.
I have to go back to about the winter of 1998-1999 to find the last time I had an illness this prolonged and debilitating, and before that I think I would have to go back to about 1984 when I had bronchitis. A quick Google search reveals that this is most likely what I’m experiencing now and what I had in 98-99 as well. Google also gives me the cheery news that there’s basically nothing one can do about acute bronchitis except wait for it to go away. Not even a day trip (for the humor impaired: note the incredibly funny reference to typical length of time spent in waiting room) to Patient First for some antibiotics would help, since it’s a virus, not a bacteria. Stupid viruses.
I am still quite mystified about where this virus came from, but I suspect either last Saturday’s trip to Wal*Mart (the most physically and politically unclean environment on Earth), or perhaps some kind soul left their virii lying around the public bathroom at work.
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