Monday afternoon there was a sudden break in my health and by sudden I mean an hour or even a half hour before I was OK, then my nose was runny. It doesn’t matter how quickly I act to stop a cold or an overactive sinus dealy from getting out of control, the damage has been done. I’ve spent most of the week either evacuating massive quantities of snot out of my head or hacking up a lung. Great visual, I’m sure. The worst part has been at night when I spend hours coughing and not sleeping. The better-half has been sleeping in the guest room all week. I should mention that the coughing sounds like a dog barking–it’s loud and guttural. It’s also highly annoying for me and whomever might be around.
Yesterday I left work two hours early so I could take a nap. I figured all my work was done for the week and there was no sense staying at the office to annoy the few folks who were actually trying to work. I ended up sleeping for 1 1/2 hours. That’s a serious nap for me as I’m more of a cat napper.
Last night was so horrible and I won’t bore you with how productive my coughs were, but when I got up this morning, I apologized to the universe for whatever I’d done to piss it off. As if coughing all night wasn’t bad enough, the phone rang at 7:45. Seriously, what is wrong with people that calling my house at that time on a Saturday morning is OK? Furthermore, I was just out in a lounge chair hoping to catch some sleep when a big horsefly buzzed my lip. That’s a sure sign that I’m not quite forgiven and I need to go process some zucchini to pay my penance.
That sounds pretty miserable. I’ve had the neti pot out all this week. I can’t remember ever needing it in July before.
I have mine out as well. It does seem weird to have to use it now. I’m usually a spring, late summer (for ragweed) and fall user.
Me too. Hopefully I’ve nipped it before that all the phlegm turns to a cough like you had.