Flu Still Keeping Us Down

Today is Saturday at the end of a week that has kept both of us struggling with the flu.  The flu still holds a tight grip on both of us and we're still feeling quite lousy.  

Sheila's worst day was yesterday, particularly last night.  She had uncontrollable coughing fits for a few hours last night.  We threw a bunch of extra medications at this problem and that seemed to settle her down after another hour or so.  Today, all her muscles from her abs to her upper back are sore from the coughing fits.  She's still struggling with sinus pain, a headache and runny nose.  

I'm still struggling with a relentless headache, some sinus pain, coughing and diarrhea.  The worst symptoms are the headache and especially the diarrhea.  Sheila never got the gastrointestinal problems like I did but I could have been dealing with this due to my systemic mastocytosis.  Unfortunately, this is one of my usual symptoms so I deal with this very often anyway.  This flu headache is pretty debilitating though...  it starts pounding whenever I cough or move around doing little things around the house not that we've done much today!

Needless to say, we haven't done anything again today other than reside on the couch.  On the positive side, we were able to get some much-needed sleep on the couch today.  The coughing and runny noses have subsided enough to allow short spurts of sleep.  

On the positive side, so far, today has been a better day than yesterday.