Oh for an Underdog Super Energy Pill!

I'm at work today, for the first time since last Friday, just before I came down with the nasty virus. My throat is dry and I have coughing spells occasionally, and my sinuses are swollen unto bursting. But those are typical sinus trouble symptoms. Annoying and uncomfortable but not debilitating. All the really nasty stuff--fever, body aches, sore throat, mind and body sapping fatigue seem to have run their course.

Still tired, of course. Five days of lying or sitting around doing little or nothing (much of that time with a fever) will do that to you. I'll have to build up my stamina again. But I think--I hope--the worst is over. Even if the last symptoms are likely to drag on for two or three weeks.

This is all to the good, since my lovely and talented wife is feeling rather stressed out herself. Still wrestling with the aftermath of her bout with this damn bug and with a heavy workload at her office and with the first anniversary of her mother's death, among other things. So not having to worry over me--having me available again to help her out--is just what she needs.