Ugh today I feel like crap today! Last night I started to get a sore throat, which I knew was a bad sign. But beyond lozenges and stuff, I don’t know much I can do about a sore throat. I also have irritated nasal passages, which is just agonizingly uncomfortable; pain pills take the edge off but nothing can get rid of this grippy ‘I feel sick’ feeling (malaise?). Last night I was hallucinating/dreaming that I was an angel in Milton’s Paradise Lost (studying it in school) and that my job was to make phlegm bubbles so around midnight I just get out of bed and start hacking up prodigious amounts of phlegm and blowing bubbles. The bubble would get about the size of a canteloupe before it would pop in my face. I snapped out of it and realized my face and hands were COVERED in all this gunk I’d been hacking up so I hobbled into the bathroom to try to wash it off but it WOULDNT come off. I was disoreinted and sleepy so I just used a towel to wipe the mess off my face and hands (tossed that in the hamper; it looked like I deposted something else on that towel) When I got up this morning I still felt grippy and my throat and head hurts…Really bummed because I have school/work today though I have the weekend to recover.
This semester is so busy that I can’t really miss a day during the week. This makes minor illnesses like what I have torture to have to deal with. Man I HATE getting sick…