day 2, upon waking

Fever is up to 100.1: "oh, that's why I feel hot". Turned off a/c, opened the windows in the sickroom (with some labor) and turned on ceiling fan to try airing out some of the cooties. Failed to get back to sleep so took 2 acetaminophen. I keep wavering between Very Hungry and Meh; I figure I'll have some cherries and yogurt in a bit and then take the next round of anti-virals.

please let coffee still taste good

Symptom check:
- Nose is running a bit
- sinuses are pressure-ful and hurty but thank heaven I can still breathe through my nose
- still feel rather bronchial but if I don't breathe deeply it doesn't trigger a cough, mostly
- Neck and shoulder a little stiff on the left side but I *think* that's just from being in weird positions, rather than the new meningitis-flavored BA.5 symptoms
- Throat isn't sore, as such, but feels swollen.
- and obviously headache / bleh feeling from fever.

So *far*, emphasis very strongly, it is not as bad as the mono I had my freshman summer in college, or the Really Bad Flu I had before going to Australia. But it is very early days yet.

ope just started a tearing cough, yay

day 2, late morning

- Metallic taste present occasionally, but faint. (Coffee tasted mostly OK, yay.)
- Acetaminophen reduced my fever to 99.x so I have been feeling a bit better, though as the day gets more oppressive my head is getting less functional.
- Just had an Everything Out toilet moment, which I'm not sure whether to blame the Paxlovid or the virus itself for. Isn't this fun?
- S remains negative so far, yay.

I wish I'd picked up peanut butter when I went shopping this weekend.

day 2, midafternoon

- Was feeling increasingly not great, so took Mucinex-D. Seems to be helping.
- Though also the room was up to 85 degrees with 71% humidity. I didn't feel uncomfortable in that way? but thought it was probably not great, so closed everything up and turned on the a/c.
- The room door is shaved off 'cause the old owners had carpet in here, and S. has been able to slip things under the door for me, including a grilled cheese sandwich \o/
- Somehow the cat snuck in here and has been lurking in the back of the closet the whole day. Not a peep out of him. Weirdo.

day 2, bedtime

- Fever's down a bit but still much lassitude; mending a sheet was like a 90 minute procedure with lots of stops and starts
- Was on a social zoom call and learned that if I try to talk much the coughing starts
- Metallic taste seems to be increasing a bit after the evening dose
- There's now a 27" monitor and an old Apple TV in here, hooray
- I, uh, may have broken a toe on the spare bed. At least it's one I've broken before?