Cold progressing fast

[cjsmith]

I'm past the eating-caltrops stage, past the brief "feeling half decent except my nose is a faucet" stage, and am now in the "there's a knife behind my sternum" stage. I don't think I've had things go this fast before.

Didn't sleep at all last night - had to keep getting up to blow my nose & take more Sudafed. Also, any time I breathed I needed to cough, and even the tiniest cough-like hint of motion reminded me of that knife behind my sternum. But man, is this cough ever productive. That stuff tastes truly nasty, by the way. I'd forgotten how nasty.

Also, when I try to talk I sound like a duck. I think today will be another stay in bed day.

Comments

[tshuma]

Wow. Eating caltrops is so much more a genteel way of describing that feeling than my normal "deepthroating a cheese grater".

I'm pretty certain my friends would know what a caltrop was, but I despair of my coworkers.

(glad to hear you're starting to feel better.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I admit a description more similar to yours was what came to mind first! Then I remembered that I might have minors on my flist. ;-)

Thanks! There is definitely less pain. I'm glad of that!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

I'll have to remember that one :)