sick and (mostly) tired

There are few things less interesting than hearing someone else complain about a minor cold or run down a list of commonplace symptoms, but, for the moment, that's all I can manage to think about. Even after almost a week of rest and liquids, I still have the cough, fever, the sore throat, and, worst of all, the woozy exhaustion that makes it impossible to read, or concentrate or, really, to do anything except sleep or lie in bed waiting for sleep to come.

The last time I was sick for this long, I eventually dragged myself to the doctor, who wrote on my chart in big letters FUO, for fever of unknown origin and told me, far too cheerfully and without any basis that I could see, that I might have lupus. Of course, I didn't have lupus. I had, it turned out, cytomegalovirus, CMV, an infection that pretty much everyone gets sooner or later and that usually is all but symptomless, but that put me out of commission for a very unpleasant couple of months.

But enough about me. How are you feeling today?