Everybody’s sick
There’s a bug of some kind going around. It doesn’t feel like a normal head cold and it isn’t really like the flu.
I’ve had a sore throat, a sinus headache, drainage, a persistent cough and so on. Benadryl cold and allergy seems to help, but hot tea with lemon and honey does almost as much good.
A friend has had it off and on for about three weeks, I’ve had it for just over a week, and one person I know has just been hospitalized because it turned into pneumonia.
According to a nurse I spoke to, this thing settles in, backs off for a couple of days lulling you into a false sense of security, and then comes back in full force.
The basic problem appears to be viral, however it has a tendency to turn into an upper respiratory infection that turns into the pneumonia.
All I can say is if you’re coughing up green stuff go to the doctor, and if the doctor gives you antibiotics take the full course.
In the mean time everyone I’ve run into, at work, at the grocery store and in the bookstore either has it, is just getting over it, or is starting to show the first symptoms.
I never seem to get what ever is going around and yet in the last year I gotten sick twice. Either I’m not as resilient as I used to be or the bugs are getting tougher.
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