I've been home and 'under the weather' now for five days now. My condition has changed and meandered in unexpected ways, and I am sooooo ready to be well again. I have my voice back now, which is nice, I guess, but I'd rather be voiceless - much prefer it, in fact - than be dizzy and nauseated with a low-grade fever. Arg ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that it doesn't affect my typing ability at all, having lost my voice, I am feeling short on words.  I was home today (scheduled day off) and will not be going in tomorrow (which will be a bona fide sick day). It is a struggle to speak at all (and even with full effort it's more of a squeaky whisper) and I have a dry cough which is ( Read more... )

Most of the past ten days are a blur... I awoke last Sunday (2. September, the day before Labor Day) with a terrible headache and mid-back pain which gradually worsened all day. I have never had a migraine and thought that might have been what was going on. Mid-day, I took some Tylenol, but there was no relief. At times I was wincing from the pain ( Read more... )