Three days and counting

[solarbird]

...and i feel like total ass again. my throat feels like i'm getting tonsillitis, and i croak out words. every swallow hurts, my tongue hurts (what the FUCK?!) and the back half of my mouth hurts too. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!

ETA: Strep throat. Yay. I have antibiotics and have started the course.

Comments

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

INTERSPECIES MEMO

To: Solarbird's Throat
From: D Altos (Northern)
Subject: Enough with the troubles, already

Under Title XII of the Interspecies Music Regulations (08 CFR 14 et seq), singing is officially recognised as an essential activity.

Further refusal to function will result in the placement of an 1142 notice in your file.

**ETAION SHRLDU, QWERTYUIOP!**

That is all.

(Recordings of the performance are, of course, encouraged).

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Good luck, heya?

A. inter alia

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

The performance will be not only recorded but simulcast globally in 25 different languages.

[drglam]

Have you had a strep throat culture?

[solarbird]

This is new. So not yet.

[drglam]

I think that should be edging to the top of your "things to do" list. That your tongue hurts? Makes me nervous.

[solarbird]

Yeah, at the base, in the back of the mouth, where most of the back of the mouth already hurts.

It's hurting in general a lot less after a (deeply unpleasant) sinus saline wash. Of course I've started coughing.

[solarbird]

You are the WINNER! And I am the LOSE! It is strep throat. I have antibiotics and have started the course. The good side is that it's not tonsilitis, and there's a good chance I'll be cleared to sing Monday.

[drglam]

The great thing about strep throat is that you can fix it.

The bad thing is it's still strep throat.

[solarbird]

Indeed. It's not tonsilitis. I went on antibiotics Saturday evening. If things go well, I might still make Tuesday.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I think there's a throat thing of some sort going around. Including you and myself, I know of at least five people in the Seattle area who've been having pretty major sore throat issues in the last week. And for someone as introverted as me, that's a pretty major chunk of the people I have contact with.

Good luck with that.

[solarbird]

It's strep throat. I have antibiotics.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Good to know. Here's hoping it clears up by your performance.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
When I read the description I said "That sounds like strep" having seen my daughter with it 6 times in 3 months.
Good luck! The antibiotics usually do knock it down quickly. Just be sure they knock it out completely. Other wise it is worse than The Cat.

[solarbird]

Don't worry, I know to complete courses.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Dear Strep:
Die in a fire and never ever come back.
No love,
Me.

Go go antibiotics!

[solarbird]

what makes me shriek with rage is that i've had a pretty damn good streak of not getting any of the "things what're going around" for, what, five years? And it breaks down in the month before this event. HA HA NO REHEARSALS FOR TWO AND A HALF WEEKS FOR J00 ARGH HATE DIE

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

but hopefully not NANGitude. (all praise be to antibiotics of whatever sort, be they 'mycin, 'cillin, or 'amide.)

"any idea how you got the darned thing, anyway?" she said, asking since she did not want to replicate any form of identifiable risk-enhancing behaviour.

be well soon. want to hear y'all on the radio whenever. ^_^

A. Lewis, Alto
etc. etc.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

*shakes fist*

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

oh, completely forgot --

all-purpose chemwar for strep throat: one garlic clove, diced, boiling-hot water poured over it, steep five minutes drink.

burns like fzck on the way down, but it works.

repeat until done, or until y'start dreaming in Latin....