From: jlsjlsjls	Date: 25th December 2016 19:09 (UTC)		(Other places)

You are sweet (and brave) soul you are ... thank you! I have gulped down huge enough quantities of water to dissolve my innards, munched some bacon and am now on the Belgian chocolate cappuccino and my stack of newly-acquired Witcher books so have been nicely distracted from my gunked eyes and moldy-feeling throat. And earlier Mom was happy to natter at me for half an hour while I contributed the occasional bout of coughing while listening. Plus there's piles upon piles of snow outside to look at and be glad I don't have to go out in it. I'm not at the stage (yet) of having to carry the tissue box around with me so all in all things are pretty good, considering. :-)

P.S. I have both chicken soup and orange juice which I know I should be consuming but at the moment my tastebuds are saying otherwise ... they were most definite about the need for protein and caffeine/sugar and they can usually be trusted.