Dammit, dammit, dammit...

Just as I was starting to think that a) I was finally getting over this lurgy and b) it had actually been more than 12 months since I had any kind of respiratory tract infection and maybe I'd actually broken the back of that particular curse, I came home from work yesterday with a throat infection. Actually it's kind of a throat/ear infection - it feels like it's probably in the parotid gland at the back of jaw. This is a new one. I took myself off to the doctor this morning and nearly fainted at the bus stop on the way home. Not sure if that was illness, or the fact that I had not eaten or drunken anything, or just my blood pressure, which is low anyway and has a tendency to drop dramatically in the face of physical stressors (sometimes I think I am related to those goats which pass out when you shout at them).

So feeling pretty bad right now, although I think the antibiotics are starting to kick in, and I can now swallow without being in complete agony.