If It Isn't One Thing It's Another

For more than two and a half years I've avoided COVID-19. I've managed to continue to do that. 

But, some other bug most distinctively characterized by an intensely sore throat and a dry cough has taken me down for the worst ailment I've had for five or ten years, which has rendered me almost completely dysfunctional for four solid days of 18-20 hours a day of turbulent and unrestful sleep, not being able to talk more than a few words at a time, coughing every few minutes, OTC meds, and hot fluids. It could be a day or three more before I'm right.

If it isn't one thing, it's another.