Head ‘em up - Move ‘em out!
Feeling a lot better today. Had my first coffee this morning since Saturday (when I fell asleep before I could start drinking it), and put in a full day’s work.
I still felt so ebullient, at 5pm, that I grabbed my bike and headed down to the gym for my first workout since last Wednesday in Milwaukee. I felt strange, and sweated inordinately, but I just decided it was time to drive all the bad shit out of my body, and bent to each machine like it was a new bride.
I’m still coughing explosively, cuz there’s still this ticklish crap that seems to want to collect right around my breastbone, and this condition does not aid me when my mother calls and I try to convince her that I’m well, now. I’m sure it sounds awful on the phone. She suggests that my throat would be soothed if I gargled with salt water, and I’ll give it a try, as I remember it being effective when we were kids, and I think I can still obtain it without a prescription.
I guess there have been cases recently of folks slipping quickly into serious pneumonia. If I’m still coughing in a day or two, I’ll a) celebrate it as a sign that I’m still breathing and b) drag myself up to the doctor so he can tell me to, probably, gargle with salt water.
Insert here that old saw about it taking 14 days to get over a cold, but only two weeks if you go to the doctor.
My husband is a prof at UW and one of his office neighbors is a research pulmonologist. He kept listening to Dave cough and probably got annoyed and couldn’t get work done.
So he volunteered and gave him an Rx for an inhaler and some antibiotics without Dave even asking. It was quite funny but actually, they did the trick. Dave’s coughing calmed down in two days.
a wee nip of brandy sometimes breaks up that phlegm (and don’t ya just love that word).
I’m here at Mom’s dialing your number as we speak……