Take two tablespoons of slabsauce twice daily as needed... and I'm sure you'll be back on the water and talkin' junk quicker than you ever thought possible... even though you might have a weird taste in your mouth for a while.
All joking aside though: Wishing you a quick recovery from the severe croup. It's a bad time of the year to shake this sort of thing... and skeet is right... don't let it fool you into doing anything that might make it worse. I say this because, I too had a bout with pneumonia a while back and had to be hospitalized to prevent it from getting any more dangerous.
"Just Like Iron Sharpens Iron... So it is that One Man Sharpens Another Man." Proverbs 27:17