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Hello, one and all, and welcome back to Big News Wednesday.

Hello, everybody.

It's me, John Adola, and Sharon is here as well.

Sharon, what's up?

I'm doing great.

I hope you're on the mend. I know you've been struggling a bit with your health, but perhaps people aren't noticing.

You know, they're watching and enjoying the show.

You're sacrificing.

My face is read for reasons other than furious coughing right before the show started.

I am feeling a little bit better.

My voice doesn't sound as bad.

I'm still kind of congested,

and my body is convinced that I, like, I have to cough still. Like, not all the time.

And I can sort of control it. But when it happens, it is desperate and furious and not fun. I don't,

I don't enjoy it. You have a headache, too, right?

I've mostly avoided the headache, although my ears have been like clogged up from the sickness.

And I found that during last night's one and a half hour long daughter screaming fit, it echoes in my ears when my ears are clogged.

Like her screaming was way louder than usual. Oh, come on. You asked this ridiculous question before the show, did you get any medicine? And I'm thinking maybe I should have done that actually, you know? Yeah. I don't know what this is. Because you need to clear it out and kind of get on the men. And I'm not trying to, I'm not a pill pusher. Okay. If you can handle it without just fluids and tea or something, do it. But I think you might need something more, I don't know, substantial. Yeah, I've eaten a lot of brownies. That helped a little bit. I drink a lot of coffee. But anyway, yeah.

Next time, day one, I just have to go to the doctor.

I hate it.

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