spiky roundboi, take 2 (Days 0 & 1)

Gee, I should get back to posting stuff that isn't my experience with viruses.

Anyways, for comparative data purposes and great justice:

Day 0: Thursday, 6/27
Felt very sinusy when I woke up, but that's a not infrequent occurrence. I went into campus and was working, but feeling increasingly bleh throughout the morning - when you can literally feel the post-nasal drip a-drippin', that is a bad thing -; took a rapid test at 11:30 and was negative. Assumed I was coming down with a sinus infection and came home at midday, thankfully (I was setting a good example for my staff!). Felt increasingly head-crushy throughout the afternoon and evening, just watched movies, couldn't even sew. But, again, this is how sinus infections exhibit for me... At bedtime, temperature was 98.7.

Day 1: Friday, 6/28
Woke up at 3am feeing terrible; oh, it's because I have a temperature of 100.3. Sinuses were a complete solid block. Immediately decamped to the spare room, taking a smorgasbord of meds. Upon actual waking up time, I tested and it was extremely positive, to no one's surprise (well, I guess it could have been flu or RSV or something). Spent most of the day bingeing Bridgerton Season 3 and drinking herbal tea; went out to the garden and lounged in my egg chair for a few hours in the late afternoon - the weather was perfect, but it was tiring to read for more than a bit of a time. After dinner, went back to the isolation chamber and kept on with my rewatch of The Last Avatar before retiring.

General Symptom Notes
So far, I don't have the lassitude of my first experience; I am not full of energy because I am sick, but no terrible negative levels. Otherwise the symptoms in full swing are pretty much the same as last time, though it's interesting that this time it started with sinus foo instead of cough/sore throat.

day 2, morning

Woke up at 5:30am, temperature of 100.8, oh boy. Took acetaminophen and went back to sleep for a few hours until Bertram started banging the door, after which we had an hour of "I want in/I want out". Stupid cat.

My sinuses are draining mightily today and I generally feel a little better, though I still have the skullcap headache (this is different from the sinus headache, which I also still have but in a lesser way). My voice is doing bizarre things. I feel horrible coughs lurking in my lungs and I am trying not to do that.

The Tour starts today but for some reason the Peacock app isn't working on the old AppleTV. That is, it works, but it won't play any content. (It's a known error, which I see much of the internet also experiences, and there is no actual solution other than waving dead chickens.) The app is legendarily bad to begin with but this is really the cherry on my shit sundae.

oh here is the banging white paw under the door again

day 2, evening

Temperature was increasing midday, so took more paracetemol. Otherwise, continuing the general trend of "sinus woe + headache + cough", which adds up to an inability to do much; and yet feeling restless. Part of this is probably the weather, as it's become increasingly oppressive today with thunderstorms forecast for tonight (take your 68° dew point and shove it). I can't focus on reading, but did manage to hand-sew a little (mem.: bring small task lamp into isolation chamber).
Oh, and my ears are blocked up. This plus masks/closed door makes household communications difficult.

Note to fellow sufferers: Fisherman's Friend cough drops have been the MVP this time 'round.

Bertie has been keeping me company most of the day, which is nice. Other than knocking my tin of pins over.