wow am i sick

I don't think I remember having this bad a cough since I got pneumonia in college. I've been coughing since at least Sunday night.

• Monday: I went in, coughed and coughed and coughed, thinking it was from allergies.
• Tuesday: I worked from home with my "allergy cough".
• Wednesday: I felt a little better in the morning so I went in to work, but I ended up feeling self-conscious about how much I was coughing, so I thought I should go find a secluded conference room to work in. That's when the body ache set in. My lower back, my neck, my legs. By that night I was miserable. I was running a fever, with a wicked headache that felt like my head would explode each time I coughed. At that point, my front and sides ached from coughing so much. JR said I didn't stop coughing until around 2am.
• Thursday: There was no way I could go in like this, so I was out sick. (You have to be pretty sick to be out-of-office instead of working from home. I literally couldn't breathe without coughing. Over the afternoon, my temperature kept going up and up and up, topping out at 100.8. That may not sound high, but my normal temp is closer to 97.6.
• Friday: still at home. Wicked headache. My stomach muscles hurt so much that I'm kind of stooped over. My throat is raw from the coughing, and I can't even make a phone call without a coughing fit.

It really sucks that we're heading into a 3-day weekend and I'm probably going to be sick for it. Winston and I are equally pitiful. At least I'm getting in some good Nova shows and a lot of reading. I've re-read my favorite book, The Eight, for probably the eighth time. and I'm almost done with Lord Foul's Bane, Book One of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. Also a re-re-re-read. Good stuff.

I wish I had season one of Ugly Betty though - I saw one episode and I'm hooked. But I don't know any of the background. That's a way to spend a few days wrapped up in blankets at home when you're out sick.

Hope you're feeling better than I am!