So - yum.

 

 

"Intervals"

Canon G7x Mark II
Snapseed
Stackables

The Grandchildren went back home to Gilead on October 4th. A day after they left, I began manifesting the same symptoms that Granddaughter exhibited while she was with us: Rivers, no, absolute torrents of yellow-green mucus flowing from my nostrils and a headache..  Yum. That cleared up in a week or so and then just when I thought I was out of the toddler-plague woods, the cough came.. along with a fever. The fever lasted three days. The cough, continues unabated. Nothing really touches it. Not the prescription cough medicine, not home remedies (hot water and honey, herbal cough drops, gallons and gallons of water..). There's no chest congestion and very very little produced by the near-constant coughing.. O2 saturation is tip-top (99%)..    The cough though - what a ball-ache. It interrupts my sleep. It interrupts Doff's sleep. It has fucked with all my core muscles so that it hurts like a motherfucker to cough.  I'm betting that Granddaughter gifted me the RSV virus which has the exact symptom collection that I now enjoy.. (I've tested multiple times for 'Rona and all the tests come back negative.) The cherry on the ice-cream-sundae of this entire situation is that the virus busted our travel plans to visit family in the Great Northwest. This bit has been especially hard on Doff. Vrbo (what a stupid name), an AirBnB competitor, is the vendor we were using for our stay in the Great Northwest. They have a shitty cancellation policy.. We took out trip insurance just in case, but the evidence the insurance company requires in order to prove my illness caused the cancellation looks to me just like bald-faced obstruction and a deep (deep) reluctance to pay out.    So - yum.    ~