After taking forever to fall asleep thanks to my sore throat and what felt like a fever (even Den said I felt really hot too, so it wasn’t just my imagination) I finally did manage to get a good stretch of sleep in. I woke up feeling a lot better. Not all healed up, but I sound better (I can actually speak – it’s in froggy, but at least it’s not a lot of squeaking), my eye doesn’t look as red, and while I am coughing a lot it’s because my sinuses are finally draining. What a relief! I ended up not going to the doctor, because I know there’s not much they can do for a virus, and since it was already all abating I knew he’d probably just say “drink lots of fluids and get rest.” My eye wasn’t even bugging me all that much today… yesterday’s eye drops and cold compresses seem to have taken care of the discomfort.

I pretty much have to go to work tomorrow for a few hours to do the *required* weekly stuff, and I might stick around just to keep busy. An entire day seems far too long to be awake.