WTF-over? I stayed up to watch a pretty good NCAA Men's basketball final between Kentucky and Kansas (the outcome sucked). Up to the end of the game my day was stellar. Got some 1 on 1 with my health coach who is totally amazing...ate very well, (for once all really good food choices for a full day) and ran outdoors before the game in the early evening. I actually got half way around the loop without stopping and then walked for a couple minutes and ran another mile without stopping before shutting it down and jog/walking the rest of the way home. I took a shower, shaved my grizzled mug and sat down with a liter and a half of cool water to watch the game...6 hours later and my voice had gone AWOL, my throat felt like hopped up badgers in track spikes had run the Penn relay on my larynx. This is very distressing to say the least. When my voice is bad enough for me to consider "phoning it in" its bad.
Blessings be to Earl Gray and his tea for loosening up my vocal chords some and the God of hot water; Farenheit (Celcius if you're Roman) and I now sound like "Aunt Jack" from Mrs Doubtfire instead of Marlee Matlin from "Children of a Lesser God.
So what did I learn? After taking a day to kick this "thing" growing in my throat's ass the first day with a regimine of hot pepper, cloves, vitamin C and hot/cold showers and self exfoliation (sounds like something for which I should repent)...and feeling better after, I should have taken conventional medicine's anti-biotic approach...just because you feel better doesn't mean you can stop taking your meds (or in my case food that will kill the unwelcome visitor in my throat). You have to finish them or it will come back "adjusted" and harder to put down. DUH. How sheepish do I feel? Baaaaaa!
Okay so enough mental self flagulation...time to get better.
It's okay Mark.
ReplyDeleteThis is just a tiny set back that won't really be any big deal. Your body needs to deal with what you have going on so just start from here and give yourself the tools you need to heal.
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