osodecanela | Did anybody get the license plate of the adenovirus that hit me?

I had a phone call this evening from

siobhancat during which I started coughing. I thought at first I was just clearing my throat. Perhaps the very beginning of springtime allergies, as spring is now in full swing here on the Russian River.

She asked if I was ill, which I quickly dismissed. Protested I was fine, just a little frog in my throat. (and no, I had not blown Kermit!)

Well, I was wrong.

In the past 5 hours, its become quite clear how wrong. No fever, but my voice has rapidly done a major retreat. I'm a rather weak basso profundo as of this moment, with very little volume, rather than my normal baritone, pretending to be a second tenor. I'm not achy, at least not yet, and oddly my nose is clear (knock wood on both accounts), but I'm coughing and hacking, and periodically producing a mucoid hairball. It gets worse when I try to lie down, which is hy I'm still awake.

I'm feeling really antsy. Nothing too horrid at the moment, but if the chest congestion gets bad, it's ultra miserable for someone with obstructive sleep apnea on CPAP.

So, I've had a pot of green tea, and a couple of Cold-eeze in the last 3 hours, take some tylenol and am keeping my fingers crossed this will get better by morning and not worse.