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So I have the plague. Maybe it’s SARS, but it feels more like the plague. It keeps changing what it feels like doing to me. The one constant thing is this terrible sore throat. It’s some flavor of agony like a 6-7 on the pain scale between 1, “papercut” and 10, “evisceration”.

Oddly enough, this is the first time any pill-form painkiller has ever done me any good. Usually I’ll pop some aspirin or advil when something hurts, but it usually does little more than reduce a sharp stabbing pain to a less-sharp stabbing pain. I was making awful faces and convulsing my back muscles every time I swallowed though, so I though a fistful of aspirin (a “fistfull” is an imperial measurement equating to 6 pills at 325 mg) couldn’t do any harm. much to my surprise not only did it not do any harm, it actually helped. I’d forgotten I had even taken any pills, when half an hour later the pain started fading from sharp to dull to almost gone. it was actually quite amazing since I’d tried throat spray and like 3 different kind of “numbs your mouth silly” cough drops to no avail. Score 1 for aspirin.

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