Unwell

I am so annoyed with myself. I haven't been sick since 2012- three whole years where I haven't even had a runny nose. And I had this impossible dream of maybe never getting sick ever again (because why not dream big?), and now that dream is obliterated completely. On Saturday night, my chest and throat felt a bit weird and that night I had nightmares and got hardly any sleep, so on Sunday (even though I was coughing continuously all day), I blamed my drowsiness on the nightmares. But last night was another horrible sleep of pretty much coughing up my lungs and waking up this morning with a fever, still coughing non-stop,  and with my least favourite: sniffly and blocked nose, which is making my voice sound like an old lady. I had to face the facts: I'm unwell. NOOO!!!! I've let myself down! I had to call into work today and tell them I couldn't come in, because no one wants someone serving them to be coughing all over their food and who looks like the living-dead. I'm also one of those people who hates taking medication- absolutely hate it and try to avoid it as much as possible. I've made myself numerous cups of  ginseng tea, also camomile tea with honey, made myself a lemon syrup and have eaten so many oranges in the past two days, but today I gave in and took some strong cough medicine and panadol... I feel like it's not working.

But I'm not going to let this small blip of unhealthiness stop me from writing, because there is a song for everything. So today's song of the day is Matchbox Twenty's  'Unwell'. It's not actually about the immune system failing on you, however it is a fantastic song.
But in terms of this particular cold, I guess the bright side to this is that when I do get better, I'll have a new aim to beat my record of 3 years of non-stop health.