48: sick and tired
originally posted Wed., Nov. 01, 2006; 1:26 a.m. EST
i should be sleeping right now cuz i'm sick and tired.
but i'm up, surfing the web. sposed to be writing my to-do list for later today's activities but i haven't gotten to that yet.
it's cuz i'm sick and tired.
saturday morning i woke up with a sore throat. it felt like someone had slit it, on the inside. i felt better as the day progressed. but as evening crept in, my throat was hurting again.
my symptoms (of what, i don't know) have gotten alternately worse then better then bad again as the days have passed. i've been drinking teas (alternating peppermint, raspberry, rosehips and hibiscus, and cold care p.m.), hot water and lemon, garlic broth with honey, and emergen-c. i do feel a lot better than i did saturday morning.
what's bad is that when i get in bed, i'm waking up every hour or so coughing and choking.
when i wake up in the morning i feel like warmed over garbage. so i drink my drinks and eat more fruit. i've been coughing up a ton of phlegm (which is good because it means i'm not recycling the gunk by swallowing it, coughing it up again, and swallowing again, etc.) but i'm hoarse and my throat and chest hurt.
did i mention the headache i've had for the past two days? it's almost gone but tiny tremors of pain are still lingering around the edges like apparitions, dodging the herbal bullets i've been shooting. it was a bad one but i'm very thankful it wasn't a migraine.
i know the culprits: a less-than nutritious diet and sleep deprivation, among other things.
my bad.
i should be sleeping right now cuz i'm sick and tired.
but i'm up, surfing the web. sposed to be writing my to-do list for later today's activities but i haven't gotten to that yet.
it's cuz i'm sick and tired.
saturday morning i woke up with a sore throat. it felt like someone had slit it, on the inside. i felt better as the day progressed. but as evening crept in, my throat was hurting again.
my symptoms (of what, i don't know) have gotten alternately worse then better then bad again as the days have passed. i've been drinking teas (alternating peppermint, raspberry, rosehips and hibiscus, and cold care p.m.), hot water and lemon, garlic broth with honey, and emergen-c. i do feel a lot better than i did saturday morning.
what's bad is that when i get in bed, i'm waking up every hour or so coughing and choking.
when i wake up in the morning i feel like warmed over garbage. so i drink my drinks and eat more fruit. i've been coughing up a ton of phlegm (which is good because it means i'm not recycling the gunk by swallowing it, coughing it up again, and swallowing again, etc.) but i'm hoarse and my throat and chest hurt.
did i mention the headache i've had for the past two days? it's almost gone but tiny tremors of pain are still lingering around the edges like apparitions, dodging the herbal bullets i've been shooting. it was a bad one but i'm very thankful it wasn't a migraine.
i know the culprits: a less-than nutritious diet and sleep deprivation, among other things.
my bad.
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