[The transmission flares to life and.... wait for it.... BZZZT! There we go! A bit of a cop-out maybe but it has been well over two weeks. ]
--fucking hell! There's no way that was two damn weeks!
(....)
Shit... guess I lost track of time. Hnn... March already.
[He does sound a bit disoriented, doesn't he? You get a few more seconds of shuffling around and then the feed cuts out right as a particularly chestrattling cough begins.]