day 4, morning

Temperature 98.0 this morning, huzzah. Am full of sinus and snot this morning (more than I had during the night, interestingly) and definitely don't feel up to being At Work™ today[1], but clearly on the mend. I may even have stomach for my dinner. The cough is a bit weird, in that I don't feel any phlegm in my chest, and I feel it lurking though not constantly; but if a cough is triggered it is super violent and sharp and dry, in a way I don't recall to have experienced before - let us try and avoid that. Not sure if I should bother testing today or wait til tomorrow.

Lovely day today, breezy and sunny and cool. There may be garden time.

[1] though I will log in to deal with anything on fire, like the entitled professor who's been the spring semester's prize pain-in-the-neck who has been sending me increasingly snitty email about something that really isn't urgent. I will suffer annoyance dealing with her questions but look forward to making her feel guilty, or at least embarrassed.

ETA:
- I did test, and still have a nice vivid T-line.
- Said professor gave no sign of being guilty or embarrassed and just doubled down on bullshit.

day 4, afternoon

I am now feeling quite wiped out (plus sinusy) - S. became suddenly and worryingly ill in the late morning, with a temperature spike over 101° and terrible shivering and chills. (And yet he has no other COVID symptoms, nor is he testing positive.) I took him to the urgent care (which is also his PCP), where they were basically ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and prescribed him a course of antibiotics...but wouldn't give him Paxlovid without a positive test. He started feeling better about an hour after I got some acetaminophen down him, though his temperature is still high. This may be a case of zebras, not horses; an onset that fast is usually food poisoning or the like, I would have thought; but we are monitoring the situation. (After a few days of amoxicillin you'll be shitting your guts out anyways, amirite?)

I've just gone and got his prescription, and now I'm utterly knackered. Answering work email did not help, I am sure. My temp, even immediately after exertions, is down to 97.8, so there's that.