What a nice birthday gift

I am totally losing my voice, everytime I talk it feels like I am ripping my throat out. What a great way to spend my birthday, and what great timing considering I have work going on today on another tank. Having work in progress requires a lot of talking from the project manager, at meetings, on the radio, on the phone. I am really feeling it right now. I just want to tape my mouth shut and not talk again until Saturday.