second (third?) verse, same as the first

This illness is still kicking my ass hardcore. I'm told I should actually start to see some kind of tangible improvement tomorrow, but for now it's pretty much like yesterday in terms of the bone-level exhaustion and the inability to do anything except sit and stare at the walls.

My thanks to everybody who sent get well wishes. Sorry I can't reply to you all individually, but sadly even sitting to type this out means I'll need to rest for about 10 min before I go on to do something else. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be a bit more up and at 'em.

Happy birthday to wolfling btw. Assuming I've got the date right. I think I do, but lately I wouldn't want to take the Vegas odds on being right about what day it is.

Further bulletins when possible.

Not dead yet

Not that being this sick is a walk through the park on the best of occasions, but now that I've hit the three day mark of more or less the same thing, I'm starting to move past the feeling like I'm swallowing knives, and the hot/cold back and forth is the worst part of this, and instead am on to thinking that the worst part of this illness is that right now I would cheerfully kill if it meant having some proper protien. For the past 3 days all I've been able to manage to eat is cereal, and one bowl of soup. If someone arrived at my door right now with a steak or even a hamburger I might marry them.

Still, it's been an educational experience if nothing else. I've never really had a situation where I've had to make decisions like "Well I could *make* the food or I could *eat* the food, but I can't do both". I can read for maybe 15 min at a time, and then I have to close my eyes and rest again. (Which is what I'll be doing after I type this post - actually, I'm resting for a few min after each paragraph as well. spots dance in front of my eyes. it's kind of fun. also my ears need to go pop but I think that's unrelated to the reading.). I also still can't talk. It's a shame I never set up phone post capabilities and that I don't have the brainpower to do it now. I could do a recording and let you all hear how croaky I am.

I was told by my doc that strep is actually going around town right now, and he said it's very likely that my niece got it simply by being up here this past weekend, as did my mom and myself (as opposed to her being sick when she came up in the first place, and then passing it on to mom and me). Actually the first thing I was told by my doc and by everybody else in the office was "Oh my god, how sick *are* you?" as soon as they saw me, so I guess I made quite the picture.

Still, I hold out hope that tomorrow will be better. That will be day 3 on the meds, so it should be when I actually see some improvement. In the meanwhile there's Tivo, and cats who are actually trying to smother me with affection (literally - I keep having to push them down towards my lap because they don't understand that while yes, mommy is sick, mommy is also sick in a way that makes her lungs weaker than usual and therefore not good places for cats to rest their weight).

Thanks to those who sent virtual get well cards. And now to rest again.