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04/09/2005: "Must've been faking it"

As my wife runs off to get more medicine and biscuits I realize that I must have been faking it, or at least overreacting, with all previous recent sick days. A sore throat and cough is nothing compared to what I've got now. What that is I'm not sure, probably the flu. Yesterday my entire body ached, my headed was stuffy and cloudy, if I started to cough I suppressed it immediately lest I burst a blood vessel in my brain. And I had a fever of 100 degrees. I honestly cannot remember the last time I had a fever. I even skipped going to a baseball game I had tickets to, a Friday night game at Giants Stadium in the first week of the season--hot dogs, garlic fries and beer. I must be sick.

I eventually took Naproxen for the fever last night before going to bed. It seems to have broken the fever as my temp is at 97 now. I must be preparing for hibernation. So today I will start taking cough expectorants along with suppressants, so that the cough will be at a minimum but when it does come will be productive.

Yesterday while resting on the couch I watched a 3-hour documentary on Winston Churchill--an interesting fellow whose gut reaction to the fascism of Nazism while on an early trip to Germany turned out to be 100% correct.