I have been sick since January 2nd.  The first day, it was an AWFUL sore throat.  For the next couple days, runny nose, cough, feeling poorly.  It was so bad that my medical ICU attending sent me home on Friday.  After calling in my prescription for steroids.  Most of that has improved, but I am left with a sore throat and sore mouth like I have never had before.  I have literally eaten one meal a day for the last 10 days.  Every time I swallow, it’s agony.  Every time I cough (many times a day), also agony.  Completely and totally unrelieved by every remedy, including prescription strength Ibuprofen dosing (my answer to everything).  I am certainly not as miserable minute to minute as I was last week, but the fact that a simple cold is dragging on over 10 days is starting to wear on me. 

Send help, please, because I don’t know how many more 30 hour days I can survive in the medical ICU if I don’t perk up soon.