I am doing much much better

I am still coughing and mucus-y and tired - but significantly less so!

Head and body aches and fever chills have gone and so has the thing where my eyes were watering uncontrollably.

So that's all good!

...however, I am on day five of essentially no voice.

It's a little less bad today than it has been, in that I physically can raise my voice above a whisper

Although I sound like a kind of maudlin violin piece played on a saw when I do

And I can't do it for more than a few sentences at a time -

Um.

It makes me sound so very sick still. My family keep peering at me solicitously and asking how I'm doing

I answer sounding like an overdone vaudeville radio ghost and they nod solemnly and tell me they're sorry I'm sick still.

It probably doesn't help that I got sick last...

So everyone's perceiving me as healing much slower than everyone else

It is frankly pretty funny

Except that I'm getting tired of my input into any given conversation being restricted to ten simple words or less.

Oh well! I can hug the cat again!

...she, like everyone else, keeps telling me to go back to bed.

I'm going, you fuzzy tyrant, I just have three more minutes for this tea to steep so I can sip hot tea once I do!

Progress is being made!

Listen to Eliza!

I'm glad you're feeling better!

/gives you headpats and complex carbohydrates

anothersadsong It's true! This is progress! I'm doing good!

onikins - I am, I promise. I've been doing a lot of lying still in bed or straight up sleeping.

roguetanking - thank yooooooou /accepts gratefully