Well. Here I am, two weeks out from Capricon 35 and I still sound like shit. Don’t get me wrong, I sound better than I did – a lot better – but my voice is still mostly crap, which is why I haven’t done any podcasting. Kinda hard to do an audio podcast when your voice isn’t there. Blargh.
I meant to write up a Capricon follow up blog post and haven’t done it. At this point, I’m not sure I will. The details have faded beneath a NyQuil induced haze – and that sucks. I know that I had a great time. I know the people there were incredibly awesome and kind and made me feel so welcomed. Me being me, I made a point to meet and chat with anyone and everyone who was willing. I did as many panels as they’d let me do and enjoyed every minute of it. Audience participation was up at this con, and I liked that, too. Nothing ever got out of hand or out of control of the moderators – which is really good – yet people had some really good, open conversations, and I love that.
Sunday night I started feeling sick. My throat had a catch in it that made me start coughing. All through the con, I’d been sucking on vitamin C drops as a precaution. I washed my hands a lot. I also ate regularly and well, and stayed hydrated. All because I know how run down I get at a con. Even with all that, I still managed to get sick. By Monday, my nose was running and the coughing fits were causing my stomach to become nauseated. And I still had to fly home.
That flight was torture. I felt hot / feverish, my nose wouldn’t stop running, I could stop coughing – even with cough drops – in short, I was miserable. It was snowing in Denver as we landed. I stopped on the way home and forced myself to eat something. I actually had to go back to the airport later and give someone a ride home – something I’d agreed to over a week before – and I was so focused on fulfilling my obligation that it never occurred to me to suggest they get a cab or something. So I went home, slept for several hours, and then headed back to the airport while the snow was really coming down. Bleh.
By the time I got home that night, I was absolutely miserable. My voice was gone. I couldn’t stop coughing, which was causing me to throw up, and I had to call in sick to work. I was out the next 3 days, finally bowing to pressure from my boss to go in on Friday, but I was still very sick and miserable and barely left my desk while I was there. The weekend was spent in bed. Monday dawned and I was back at work, but still feeling bad. I was eating again, and keeping it down, but my energy level was low. All last week, I was hitting my bed early and sleeping hard.
The coughing is finally abated – for the most part.
But I haven’t been able to read much. I listened to maybe 3 chapters thanks to an audio book. Haven’t been able to write either. My brain just isn’t in that space. And believe me, I’ve tried.
I did manage to make a pretty decent beef stew last weekend.
The point is I’m tired of being sick. WTF is going on, body?
Hope you feel better soon. Get some Vitamin D. It is more effective than C. We do about 4000IU-8000IU per day for a couple days and it seems to help a lot.