still coughing so I quarantined myself

It's Saturday night. I am still coughing from the sand storm on Monday. I have a doctor's appointment in the morning to follow up on the heat exhaustion. There is a nasty but highly effective cough syrup I was told about so I will ask the doctor for it. Today I boiled some water and put a spoon of tiger balm (menthol) in the water to breathe the steam. It worked for a while and cleared out my upper respiratory troubles. but now I ache all over. I hope a good nights sleep will make me feel better. I just can't believe that another weekend is going by and I have done nothing fun, spent it sick or alone. Somebody should be taking care of me.
I started the day on IM with a friend. Which was nice because I didn't have to talk and therefore did not induce a coughing spell. I spent the day playing with paypal trying to figure out how my friend can pay me back some money he owes me. He's going to the bank tomorrow. Then I spent a couple of hours helping another friend book a flight on Delta to go home on an emergency situation. I got 2 phone calls and an e-mail from co-workers checking on me to see if I was still alive. That's a good feeling.
I was going to get a massage today at the Hilton. I was going to have the therapist massage the space in between the ribs. There are tiny muscles there. Massaging my ribs would help release the crud in my lungs. But I realized that I would be taking the chance of being quarantined. I had a co-worker quarantined for 3 days against his will about a month ago. As an American contractor, we are the source of Swine Flu in case you didn't know. If I went in there asking them to help with my cough, there was the remote possibility that I could get turned in to the Ministry of "who knows what it's called but the end result is the same" - QUARANTINED!
So Sunday will be chore day since I did none today. Groceries, Laundry, Doctor. No massage for me...