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I'm recovering from a really nasty flu. Two Sundays ago, I noticed something in my throat, and Monday morning my doctor prescribed azithromycin. After a week, it didn't really go away, but it didn't really get worse either. I was tired, but I was able to sleep and fight it. I worked all through that week.

Then last Sunday, I started to feel an itch in my lungs, and by Monday there was heaviness and coughing. Went to see my doctor, and he prescribed a second round of zithro, and some promethazine syrup for the cough. He told me to stay home for a couple of days, which turned out to be a huge understatement. I could barely do anything for five days. I finally regained my energy a few hours ago.

I still have that nasty cough, but it's subsiding, plus I'm starting to get clogged sinuses, which usually occurs when the bug is on its way out. That means I'll have to pick up some pseudoephedrine tomorrow - it'll actually be the first time I do that since all this business about registering to purchase it due to the crystal meth craze. Maybe I'll try phenylephrine this time, which pharmaceutical companies have released as an alternative.

Anyway, I'm all achy, partly from the flu, and partly from lying down most of the week. But now it's time for bed. Hope y'all don't get this bug -- though I seem to have caught it later than most people I know. I have been reading Stephen King's The Stand, which at a certain point I decided might not be the best thing to read when trying to overcome a flu that won't die.