Improvement, or just the next phase?

[cjsmith]

Fever broke this morning. (I think. Morning temps tend to be low, but 98.2 is solidly low enough to say the fever really did break, right?) Throat still hurts some -- I'm prone to that.

I'm coughing only a little, I'm not sniffling... if my throat didn't hurt I might suspect I was almost well. But the ONLY person I know of who was sick around me for the last couple weeks is Rob, and if this is what Rob had, I haven't even started the bad part. That'll be chest congestion for a couple of weeks, including a persistent deep phlegmy cough that interrupts sleep; then the fever will come back but the cough won't stop. Past that I don't know -- that's as far as Rob has gotten. He's almost exactly a month ahead of me.

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[runeshower.livejournal.com]

Glad you're getting better!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope that's what's happening! :-) (The back of my throat looks like someone walked on it with cleats. But that always happens for me, even with a teeny cold, ever since a really bad bout of Something-Or-Other when I was seventeen. So maybe that's not a bad sign, or maybe it is.)

[oddhack.livejournal.com]

Urk. Consider possibility of bacterial aka "walking" pneumonia (http://www.drgreene.com/21_206.html), something I've had twice and really, really wish I hadn't - if so it's not to be trifled with.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*big nod* I sure hope this isn't bacterial, although viral stuff can head towards pneumonia too -- that's why I'm being so darned careful now, because I won't be able to rest after Saturday morning.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, I had that thing when I was still working Peterson and the temps dropped into the 30s. I was miserable, but TheraFlu helped a lot with the congestion. And lots of hot liquid. And rest, rest, rest (which I didn't get which is why I think it held on for so long).

Good health vibes heading your way.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Gah, I can imagine yours was just miserable. Ugh. Cold and dry and running your personal energy stores down to empty... not a good combo. You're better now, I take it? I hope?

I'm sure Rob's has held on this long because he hasn't rested, either. Oh, he's taking it seriously NOW, after he's been sick for just over a month and I too have succumbed and we're about to fly to Japan. But from the time he came down with it in November to the day I woke up and told him my throat had lost a fight with a Dremel tool, he basically didn't change anything.

I am sooooo hoping we get to stay in places with heat, when we're in Japan. (Some homes don't have heat.)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Glad that fever broke!! The rest should follow soon, insha'allah...

Sending you hot tea with lemon and honey, and big hugs!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Insh'allah! I do hope so. I've definitely got gunk in my chest, though.

Thanks for the "care package" -- I bet you can only imagine the amount of sore-throat-soothing tea I've been going through the last couple days!

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

oooh, that Throat Coat is good stuff. i like to alternate a cuppa hot tea with a glass of ice water for a sore throat. seems to freak out the nerve endings enough to quite 'em down for a bit. plus it keeps me hydrated.

hang in there, and i've got everything crossed that you stay reasonably healthy during your trip!! {{hugs}}

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Yeah, it's excellent stuff! Oddly, I cannot abide the taste or the smell of it when I'm healthy, but when I'm sick it's nectar of the gods.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

*slips lots of Throat Coat teabags into the little corners of your suitcase*

good luck on your trip! i'll be thinking of you both!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Would you believe I went out and bought two boxes of it today, to bring with me? I really did! Now if only every place I stay has tea-mugs and microwaves.