day 3, morning

Temperature this morning 98.5, which you would say is not a fever, but it is higher than my usual basal body temp. So...kinda? But improvement on that front, anyways. On the gripping hand, I slept very poorly due to a) coughing, b) repeated cat vs door, and c) ... I am not sure how to articulate this, but I could "hear" crackling and wheezing in my sinus passages every time I breathed out, which is horrifically distracting when you're trying to go to sleep. So I feel kind of logy, sinus pressure is back, bit of a headache, and my bronchial tubes are ready to burst out at the lightest provocation. I've taken a Mucinex-D and let's see where that gets us.

Definitely no relief in the garden today. It's already 80 degrees, 90% humidity, and a dew point of 75, which adds up to "appalling"; and the forecast is for more of the same, plus thunderstorms. No thank you.

day 3, midday

I am feeling an interesting combination of better and worse. Better, in that I have more brain and a little more energy; worse, in that the pressure in my head has increased in a weird way - my ears are blocked up still, but somehow, at the same time, they're more sensitive to the higher pitches, so e.g. dishes clattering is piercing and painful. I don't even know what to do about that. And, surprise guest star, explosive toilet experience (though that could have been the clam chowder I had for lunch; sometimes my body doesn't love a lot of milk/cream).

I have applied Vapo-Rub™ and so far it has just made my nightshirt sticky. I have also snorted olbas oil steam, which helped in the moment but also I didn't shut my eyes fast enough when putting my head over the bowl and ow.

Temperature maintaining at a stable 99.0 without fever reducers, which is not great (my usual resting is about 97.9), but I'll allow it.

day 3, evening

The up-and-down-ness has continued, but on balance I think it's more up than down (the thunderstorms finally coming through no doubt helped as well). My right ear unblocked, hallelujah. A 32oz pot of Candy Cane Lane tea may be too much, especially when I forgot that it's actually green tea, not herbal, and steeped it over-long. Bertram is currently sleeping adorably at the foot of my sickbed and I am hoping he will stay thus for the night. (He will not.) Now to decide whether or not to apply another dose of Mentholated Petroleum to my boobs before going to sleep.

Temperature holding at 99.0. Thankfully, S. still testing negative.