It took a while for it to manifest enough so that it could be recognized but the bouts of sleepiness are likely due to the immune system as it hunkers down to do battle with a couple of infections.

Some severe jaw spasms over the past month required that some dental work be done to repair 3 back teeth that had been damaged. The work was done around a week ago and one of the teeth had been cracked pretty deep in, so I just thought that the residual soreness in the area was from being worked on; however it is now obvious, that it has become infected.

There's also been a bit of coughing over the last few days but I attributed that to a choking fit on Friday, during which I aspirated some soup (swallowing is a little tricky at times).
Well, yesterday morning arrived with a fever, headache and more coughing as the immune system got off its butt and really kicked in. So along with the tooth infection, there has also been another bout of walking pneumonia for the immune system to deal with. A course of antibiotics are now on the menu which should help both situations.

Honestly, I wish that I had clued in before now, but apparently I graduated from the "University of Duh".

With love, Erika