Day 5 reporting

[branchandroot]

I am cautiously hopeful that I may be on the tail end of the RSV. The river of snot is somewhat decreased. The cough is starting to feel like a ‘normal’ cough instead of like I’m about to hack up a bit of lung lining.

So that’s five days from “yes, definitely sick” to “maybe easing up”. This was, admittedly, with me triple dosing on my immune booster cocktail of vitamins and supplements, so YMMV.

This is definitely a pretty brutal one, as upper respiratory viruses go. Even as the major symptoms start to ease a bit, I’m still weak and shaky enough that I wouldn’t want to try driving myself anywhere. If there was one item that I wish I’d had stocked up and didn’t, it would be a bath stool (now on the list for next month’s purchases).

So once again: wear your masks in public, and don’t trust your relatives when they say they’re healthy enough to make the holiday gathering.