Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

I'm sick. Not seriously sick. I got a sore throat about 3 days ago now. Today I started coughing a little now and then. I haven't been properly sick for maybe a year or two. Perpetually on the verge of being sick but not actually full blown coughing sneezing and so on. I don't really mind. Though it is oddly timed.

After I heard about my relative's near death due to tonsillitis experience I had a look into the subject. Apparently it's referred to as glandular fever in adults. It seems that it's just the result of a throat infection and sometimes it causes the tonsils to swell up which only then becomes a problem. It seems that most people contract the throat infection as children and build an immunity to it instead of getting tonsillitis.

I've had sore throats before, so I've had prior throat infections. I wonder if I've had the one to build immunity to tonsillitis? Well. Just in case I haven't I thought to myself that it'd probably be good to let myself get sick. However I thought this just before or around Christmas and thought it would be best to let it happen after Christmas, and New Year too.

Oh. By the way. Happy New Year everyone. Why didn't I blog sooner? Well. A blog a day for almost a full month. Don't you think that was enough for a while? Even I was getting sick of seeing my avatar so I dread to think how much you guys would've gotten sick of it.

I've been meaning to write up the rest of my Christmas but after 25 days of blogging I kind of got bored with it.

So. Three days ago I got a sore throat. It seemed to come up from nowhere. I find it quite suspicious because I actually maintained my usual awareness of germs. It's almost as if once I decided I should let myself get sick my body just let it happen.

I was, still am, a little worried that my tonsils might act up, now I know what to look for. The other day I had a look down my throat. It wasn't exactly pleasant but now I know what a sore throat actually looks like. Somehow, it seems less evil when you know what's causing it and what it looks like. It's just inflamed. Red and angry. It always seemed so complicated and evil when I was younger.

Like I said. It's been some time since I was properly ill so I'm not completely sure how I'd normally react to it. I've been wearing a scarf for three days. Drank a full carton of orange juice yesterday. Had some warm milk with a massive teaspoon of honey a few hours before bed and mum gave me some tablets that I can actually swallow which I took about an hour before bed, to be sure they'd kicked in.

Before I had a look at my throat I wouldn't have been so keen on taking them but now I've seen the swelling the idea of decongestant and anti-inflammatory medicine seems very appropriate.

Warm things to warm the throat or cool things to cool the throat are advised. Cool things aren't so comfortable. But warm things are very soothing.

I know I'm rambling. I'm feeling pretty drowsy at the moment. I just felt like documenting this occurrence.

Bluebiird out.