Thursday morning (of last week) I was woken somewhere around 5 am or so by a throat so sore that swallowing was almost impossible. "Oh no" I thought followed by "I'm going to try to stay asleep and then I'll be fine somehow." But that didn't really happen or work and so I got out of bed Thursday morning with an incredibly sore throat. Not *quite* strep throat level of pain but not "I might be sick" either. Damn.
I had two appointments booked for that day, one being the dentist for a cleaning, so I made some calls and left messages explaining I wouldn't be making those appointments. Not only did I not want to breathe whatever sickness on these nice folks, I also didn't feel up to dealing with a dental cleaning or anything while that miserable.
So for that day I just focussed on resting. I gargled with salt water, I did a neti pot sinus rinse, I ate well and made sure I had vitamin C and I hydrated. As the day went on the sore throat got better and better and this was a great sign!
And then on Friday morning I woke up with a sore throat all over again. What? It wasn't as sore as the previous morning but I'd gone to bed with no soreness and why was I waking up with it!
I decided not to go to the exercise class that has mainly older folks in it because I was NOT going to expose them to my whatever but I was still confused. But again I took it easy on Friday and tried to take care of myself and the sore throat went away fairly quickly.
Saturday morning? You guessed it. Sore throat when I woke up. But less so than the last two days. What?????
I messaged my folks and told them that I wasn't going to visit on Sunday for Father's day as I was fighting a bug and didn't want to spread any germs.
I woke up that Sunday morning with a normal non sore throat feeling (although the throat and area are still not back to normal) and I'm hoping that means I beat the bug but I'm also didn't push myself on Sunday so let's hope I continue to be on the mend from whatever this was.
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