Oh, man! I sound like a bullfrog in heat and I’m trying everything I or the pharmacy can think to get whatever this is over and done with before tomorrow. I decided I needed a neti pot, so I got the next best thing, which is a pressurized bottle of saline water. I have cough syrup, I have alka-seltzer-like things, I have lozenges, I have pills and sprays and all manner of things — we have made our neighborhood ANTEKA rich for the week! It’s not really anteka, because some of the letters only sort of look like that — and most letters don’t match their known sounds anyway. I just call it that because that’s what it looks like. I have GOT to have a voice by 2:00 tomorrow! I remembered Claudia’s old wives remedy today, which is to wrap your throat in your bathrobe belt or a scarf or something. No bathrobe, so I have a scarf wrapped tightly, and hotly I might add, around my neck. It will be my luck that this remedy only works if you do it as soon as your throat starts to hurt. Great.
I fear I will lose my audience tomorrow if I continue to sound like this — who wants to listen to someone who sounds like a fiddle dying??? Laird is prepared to read my Baba Yaga story, but I want to tell Dame Ragnell, I want to read poetry! So I’m off to spray more saline up my nose. Wish me luck! Hoarsely yours, jm
lairdandjonelle 
Rock it out, sweetie!!! You will be GREAT……let whatever voice you have be the voice that works! YOU can!!!!!xxxxxxxj
Well, luck! I would add a fair measure of schnapps in there somewhere to soothe that throat. Kisses!