Monday, still sick

[mapsedge]

I'm not accustomed to getting sick and staying sick.  Two or three day's, max.  Although there are improvements in specific areas - my throat hurts marginally less than two days ago, I can concentrate on a task for more than a few minutes - there is no doubt that my body is still coping with whatever virus or infection took me down last Thursday.

I'm encountering something with this round that I've not experienced before: I've had - and continue to have - a sore throat that painkillers, neither analgesic nor anti-inflammatory, can touch.  I've kept a regular, staggered schedule of ibuprofen and tylenol.   The pain of swallowing is intense, as if my throat isn't just irritated but injured. 

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[glesyn.livejournal.com]

OUCH

what a good way to describe it, tho. Injured. Never heard it put quite that way.

*sending healthy thoughts that don't require swallowing*

[rhiannontherose.livejournal.com]

You, my friend, should try eating pastina. Sometimes it does more for our throats than all the stuff that should be working, but isn't...even when throats have gotten that bad.

All it is, is teeny tiny pasta bits. When I was growing up, it was miniscule stars, but these days sometimes I find it in pellet form, or alphabet form. Whatever. Teeny tiny bits of normal pasta. Cook. Drain. Mix liberally with butter and salt. Eat.

Filling, but light in a sick stomach. Easy to consume with minimal oral movement. Soothing on the throat.

Regardless, I'll keep you in thoughts and prayers of the feel-better-real-soon sort. ::hug::