mapsedge | Monday, still sick

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.