What not to do when your throat's itchy...

I came back from Charlotte with a bit of a tickle in my throat, and i brushed it off as just a little thingy probably a result of the dry air. So i thought nothing of downing a couple of cookies that night and went to bed with a slight cough.

Coughing got somewhat worse the next day, and throat was starting to feel sore - but somehow i didn't really care much, so for dinner that night it was two big slices of pizza for me.

After that when i got back to the room i felt thirsty, but alas, the water cooler on my floor was not working, so i decided to buy a drink from the vending machine in the basement. There i bumped into Brett from my floor who was helping himself to some ice from the ice machine (btw, it was at that moment, three and a half months after moving in, that i realized that there was an ice machine down there). So somehow, the bright idea to just fill my nalgene to the brim with ice and top it off with a drink from the vending machine came to mind - and so i got a bottle of Sierra Mist and poured it into my ice-filled nalgene, occasionally thinking of its potential consequences, but largely not bothering about it - finished the whole ice-cold bottle that night, quenched my thirst, went to bed.

Next morning - throat felt really bad - and had a lot of phlegm in it - coughed into the basin - saw lots of red in what i coughed out - panicked for two seconds or so - then got hold of senses and figured it must be some mild laceration in the throat, and not anything in the lungs, which would be quite worrying, yeah so i figured the best thing to do would be to just eat more throat-friendly food and to buy some throat lozenges (btw why is almost every sore throat medication cherry flavored? For me that's worse than the ailment itself - bad memories of children's panadol). Felt feverish around that time too, but temperature wasn't too high - 98.9 degrees F (37ish C)...

So by the end of the day, things were better, throat less of a bother and fever more or less gone - i musn't have been too sick judging from my appetite at dinner at Lenoir - five plates of main courses and one plate of dessert isn't what a sick man would normally eat - now throat still a little wonky, but more or less ok...

Anyways, thanks again for the b'day video thingy - watching that certainly helped me to forget that i was sick for a while =)