posted 2006/06/28 at 21:26
A few days after Rowan's passing it was hard not to notice both my mother and my sister doing a lot of coughing. Grief, like we all felt after Rowan passed away, does have a tendency to seriously weaken the immune system.
Here's the thing, though: a couple of days after the two of them started coughing so badly, I noticed a sore throat, and I figured that I was going to get sick too. The thing is that this sore throat has been going on for about a week now, and it gets better and worse, but nothing's accompanying it. (I did have some bad sinus headaches a couple of days ago, but those were more due to the weather than anything else.)
This is pretty much what happened after I got back from North Carolina in March; back then the entire family had gotten sick while I was away, and for about a good month there my throat was killing me and I figured I was on the verge of a full-fledged illness. I never got sick, perhaps because I was loading myself up on lemonade and salty snacks (I wasn't worrying about dieting back then) and stopped nearly all exercise, but it was a huge pain.
Ever since this thing hit it's been hard for me to do much of anything because I don't want to risk aggravating whatever this thing is and winding up getting sick after all. At the same time, though, I doubt that I can count on this thing going away on its own. Perhaps I need to get back in the swing of things here, and just take my chances ...
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