You know, it sure would be nice to
speak like a normal person again.
As I alluded to at the end of
yesterday's blog, I don't seem to have much of a voice at the moment.
I don't know what caused it, I don't know why it's lasting so long,
and I really really REALLY wish it would get back to normal.
Really.
It started Saturday night. I was
sitting in our living room watching the Tour de France, while Loraine
was in the other room working online (yes, we lead exciting lives,
don't we?). Because we were both wrapped up in our respective tasks
there may have been a span of an hour or an hour and a half where we
didn't speak to each other. She then came into the room to ask me a
question, and when I answered it I sounded like a bullfrog going
through puberty.
It was cool, if by “cool” you mean
idiotic and annoying and totally uncalled for.
The stupid thing is that other than my
voice not working I feel fine. I feel better than fine, actually.
I've been outside playing in the sun and doing all kinds of physical
activity, and I'm in what I consider to be maximum “summer shape”
(as opposed to say, the sullen, downtrodden “winter shape” that
you get when you're stuck in a gray, sunless city for months at a
time). I don't feel as if I should have a voice that's almost
non-existent, but here I am.
I've reached that point.
Because I don't know what's causing it,
I'm trying to take care to make sure I don't pass it along. I had to
skip a kid's birthday party Sunday just in case it's some kind of
viral thing. After all, you don't want to spread it around, right?
I don't think it's contagious; after all, I just can't speak above a
whisper and I cough every few minutes because my throat is so dry.
Other than that, I feel fine. Like I said before, I feel great. But
just in case I have some strange, weird disease...don't be surprised
if I turn my head or cross the street if I see you.
I'm not being rude. I just don't want
you do get whatever it is I have at the moment.
(jim@wmqt.com),
waiting to be able to babble like a dork again.
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