Trading Health
I have one of those illnesses that is actually quite consistent. The symptoms are transient through time, space and frequency but the illness itself is quite consistent. In order to get a few good days, I must pay the price with a few bad days. Unfortunately, it is not an even trade-off... I pay the price of a few good days by having to endure many, many days of bad days. I'm in that low part of the trade-off cycle now. On the last two days of our cross country train journey (Monday and Tuesday), I had an annoying sore throat. I've had worse sore throats but it was consistent and wouldn't go away. I was hoping that I was just a bit dehydrated since I was avoiding an excess of fluids due to availability of bathrooms. Unfortunately, I would quickly realize that the sore throat was not due to slight dehydration. Although dehydration can bring on other problems, that would have been a more simple problem to resolve... pump fluids either orally or through IV. O