First, please join with me in wishing Youngest Son a very happy 22nd birthday!
Now to the topic at hand, which is timely for me since it seems that I am getting one. I had a scratchy throat at bedtime last night, but with the change in the weather here in the Bluegrass beginning yesterday, I just sort of did not pay attention to it. When I awakened this morning, it was a different story.
I had fever. I am extremely sensitive to changes in body temperature, because my normal is around 97.7 degrees. Thus, when I hit 99, I am SICK! I also had the scratchy eyes and the runny nose. As the day wore on, and I did not get better, I decided it was time to act. I took aspirin for the fever, a gram of ascorbic acid and 50 mg of zinc to boost my immune system.