The DayQuil/NyQuil Days
While the coughing was a constant, it took me a while to recognize other symptoms. Towards the middle of the day, I kept asking myself “Do I have a fever? It kind of feels like a fever. Maybe I have a fever.”
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Sick Day
The whole day was a terrible blur. I was coughing a lot, and each time I coughed… it felt like a bolt of lightning going down my right leg, due to my back issues.
I had run out of the steroids I was taking, and the entire day was just hours and hours of discomfort. Every cough made things worse, and there was an awful, awful lot of coughing.
Shot and a Chaser
In some ways, I feel like I’m taking DayQuil to recover from the lingering, sedative effects of the NyQuil I took the evening prior. As I’m going through this motion, it totally feels like a scam.
I’d complain to Vicks about this, but I’m a little too tired to do much about it at the moment. Maybe when I’m feeling a bit better.
The Coughing Starts
Me, the cough is sporadic. I don’t have as much “stuck” that I’m trying to get out, but the few times I do try to cough… it’s deep and actually painful to cough. Mostly, I’m blowing my nose a lot, with less frequent coughing fits.
When the two of us have a coughing fit at the same time together, in the same room… I wonder what our neighbors must think. It must sound like something terrible, from the outside.
Sick Days
Once more, I worked from home again today. My cough got really bad last night, to the point where I was feeling uncomfortable and just counting the hours until I could take some NyQuil and go to sleep
A Fast Stomach Ache
Around 7:00 PM, as I was talking to Liz, my stomach started to hurt. And then it started to hurt a little more. And then it just kept on going. I never got to the point of serious nausea, it was just a moderate amount of discomfort. But it was enough to where I couldn’t…
Half Days
While I did get some rest over the weekend, it was also a fairly busy time. In addition to working Saturday, I did a lot of errands as well. Sunday night, when I put my head on my pillow… it prompted a great deal of coughing. I didn’t get a great night’s sleep.
A Bad Case of the Hot Mouths
Fast forward to today, and I woke up with a sore throat. And unlike prior days, it just stayed around. At work, right around 10 AM, my nose began running like a faucet. So much so that I had to get up and go to the bathroom a few times. So much so that I began to seriously worry about becoming dehydrated.
Suddenly, Stomach Ache
The speed and severity of… whatever this was, was pretty impressive. I am still trying to shake off the cough and congestion from last week, and tonight just added insult to injury. This was another one of those “I think my body is breaking down” moments.
A Lingering Cough
I got sick a few days ago, and this thing has stayed around. Usually, I’m only sick for a brief while… but whatever I have has settled into a cough tha just doesn’t want to go away.
A Not Quick Sick Day, Part 2
I could feel myself getting less useful, the longer I sat. And though there’s a part of me that feels like I should still be working, I knew I couldn’t work another full day. So I climbed in bed, put on a movie, and napped off and on.
A Not Quite Sick Day
Stayed home today because I started to get sick at work yesterday… and it just got progressively worse and worse. My goal was to attend a few meetings in the morning remotely, then take a sick day.
A Deep and Persistent Ache
There’s a particular strand of muscles, located somewhere near/beneath my right pectoral. I don’t even know how to describe it, as it feels like it’s buried inside my chest. But every time I cough or sneeze, that thing lights up like a Christmas tree.
Under the Weather
After a brief debate between Sudafed and DayQuil, I opted for the Sudafed. With a coffee chaser.
Sick Day and Evening
The day started off with a stuffy nose, which possibly could have been due to allergies. By mid-afternoon, I was sniffling non-stop, and was pretty convinced I had caught the bug that’s been going around.
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