Sick As A Dog

Christopher Horrell

Apr 20, 2004

Hot damn do I feel like crap.

I went home early from work yesterday and it was a pretty quick decline from there. I have a fever, my throat is sore, and my back hurts. I've also got that cold sweat thing going on. I took today off and spent most of it in bed. I'm definitely staying home tomorrow as well. I'm at a point now where it even hurts to talk. Oh well. I think I'm near the tail end of it now and I should be better by Thursday

Out of curiosity I looked up the expression "sick as a dog" and I found this. Dogs have been treated rather unfairly by the English language I think.

And now, more fluids.

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