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Upon checking in at the Crowne Plaza Riverwalk here in San Antonio at 4:45p, I communicated to the helpful desk person in as loud a whisper as I could muster that I thought I needed to see a doctor.

It’s a good thing I did. The nice desk man popped me in a cab, and sent me off to the nearest emergency room. In triage, they determined my fever to be of the 103.5 variety, and decided to keep me there for a little while to see a doctor. Unfortunately, this basically meant waiting in the waiting room for 2 hours before I could actually see a doctor.

A few rounds of questions and tests later, it was determined that I have a viral sore throat infection, with a very irritated and agitated sore throat. I was given some white goopy stuff to drink, which helped with the sore throat, Tylenol for fever, a shot for body aches, and a box of tissues. I was in for observation until my fever went down, and they sent me off with 2 prescriptions and the kind of instructions you’d get from a college campus health center: fluids, rest, no hard living. It is the way of the wiley viral sore throat to simply go away on its own, and I can but help it out the door with good behavior and a few prescriptions.

Unfortunately, this means I’m probably going to lose another day here at the conference. Since the pharmacies were all closed last night when I finally got back to the hotel at 10p, I’ll have to go this morning. I was woken every hour on the hour last night with coughing and nose blowing, so I’m not terribly rested, and possible side effects of the medicines include sleepiness, so I may have to stay in today. We’ll see.

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