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[Crankin]

Well, today is the first day I woke up without a sore throat, but I still have that "losing my voice" feeling, with a "full" head. The Mucinex seems to really help, so I will continue using this. I am freaked out it will go into my chest, but so far, so good.
The snow is so high outside, that it blew over and buried the exhaust from our heating system. Since our temperature goes down at night, this shut the system off (a good thing, so we don't get CO2 poisoning) and it was cold when I got up. DH went out and shoveled it out, and it is now nice and warm.
I just heard the mandatory driving ban might extend to tomorrow. Noooooooo, I am going skiing! DH just subtly joked that we can say I'm a healthcare worker and I have to go provide emergency psychotherapy, with nordic skis on the car, in case we have to ski in to the patient's house.

[SheFly]

The driving ban ends today at 4 pm. Hope you're feeling better, and got all dug out. That was a lot of snow! Woohoo.

SheFly

[Crankin]

Thanks, SheFly. Parts of me are better and other parts, no. I am still not dressed as I write this. Yes, we're all dug out, took DH 3 hours with the snowblower, and that's just for the area in front of our house. The driveway up to our house gets plowed. I certainly don't feel like I should be skiing tomorrow, but there has been a gradual improvement each day. Yes, the driving ban has ended, but I am not going anywhere tonight! We are headed to Northfield Mt. at 9 AM.

[Crankin]

Still sick, and now I have a fever of 100. Obviously, I did not go skiing. I am not coughing much anymore and my sore throat is gone. Just aching and my head is full, my stomach is weird. I always get freaked out about pneumonia, although I don't have any chest pain. Definitely not the flu; I had a shot 5 weeks ago and this has come on very slowly, nothing like when I had the flu in 1993, which is about the sickest I've ever been, including a 104 degree fever.
It looks like I will be going to my PCP tomorrow and possibly canceling all of my clients. We are leaving Thursday for VT, and it is a non-refundable reservation.

[OakLeaf]

Ugh. Hope you feel better in time for your trip.

[Crankin]

OK, after a horrible day yesterday, including a fever of 100 (I never run a fever and my normal temperature is below normal), I think I may be on the upswing. Maybe. My head is still full, but I feel somewhat different, can't quite put my finger on it. Cancelled all my clients, but I am not missing my haircut appt. (priorities)! I am debating on going to the doctor, as I definitely don't have anything in my chest and I doubt I need an antibiotic, which would put me into weeks of stomach hell.
Will keep you posted.

[emily_in_nc]

Sorry, Crankin! Hope you start feeling better day by day -- I'm betting you'll be fine (or close to it) by Thursday. Once your fever has broken, the worst is over, in my experience.

[indysteel]

Feel better, Crankin. I, too, get stomach and bowel issues with most antibiotics. Now I take a priobotic during and after the course of antibiotics. That seems to help.

On an unrelated note: Whoever created the at-home jewelry/makeup/clothing/purse Pampered Chef-type parties should be voted off the island. I just got invited to a clothing party. The hostess is a perfectly lovely person and I don't want to offend her, but there's no way in hell I'm going to such a thing. The only way I like to shop for clothes is online.

[Crankin]

Indy, your comment about the home parties made me chuckle as I sit waiting at the doctor's office. I remember many years ago when I was at a Tupperware party and I offended the salesperson. She was going on about how selling that stuff could make you "rich." I think I said something like "I might not be rich, but I have a professional job and a master's degree, and I'm not selling Tupperware."
ETA: got my prescription for Zithromax. Ear is infected and probably sinuses, too. He said it was probably secondary to a viral thing, but given my "contact with people with poor health habits," he's not messing around.

[indysteel]

I love Z-packs. They knock out my sinus infections in short order. I hope you feel better soon!

[Crankin]

Within an hour of getting my prescription, I started wheezing. I had not done that in 7 years.
Took my out of date Ventolin inhaler and prayed. Woke up this morning, wheezing decreased to almost none today, lots of productive coughing. Ear and sinuses better, but I am tired and my coughing is annoying. Got a new inhaler, too.

[Catrin]

Take care! I hope you are feeling better tomorrow...

[Blueberry]

Crankin-

I hope you're feeling much better by your trip! What bad timing, and it sounds like a miserable bug!

[Owlie]

Feel better, Crankin!

I've had a headache for the past two days. I hope it's just the fact that I'm not sleeping well (and consequently not eating properly) rather than something worse.

[Crankin]

Despite the chest stuff, parts of me feel better. Asthma, I can deal with. It's passing, secondary to being sick and just having too much, excuse the word, mucus. Pneumonia, I cannot deal with. I don't think I have it, as that was something I developed after my first tour, a weekend in Vermont, where I rode in the rain and the temperatures were in the 30s-50s. That also started with sneezing, etc., but I am not having the hurting in the back, etc. My stomach was just killing me, too, mostly my usual stuff, that no one has ever been able to pinpoint, except that "it's probably diverticulosis" and the fact that I have 2 first degree relatives with colitis, which I have a genetic marker for. I didn't have coffee today, just 2 cups of strong tea, and the stomach is 100% better. But tea just does not have enough caffeine in it for me. I have a slight caffeine withdrawal headache, and I don't even drink that much coffee, just like it strong!
I am heading to bed, I need sleep. I actually slept OK last night, but I stayed up late reading and got up at 5:45. When I think back to the days when I had stuff like this 2,3, 4 times a year, I realize how much healthier I am.