Cough cough, hack, hack

Christmas Day's Unshelved applies to me.

Somehow every year about this time (give or take 6 weeks) my body says "ENOUGH."  Sometimes I get the flu, but it's usually something that turns into bronchitis and if I'm really unlucky, pneumonia (2001 was a doozy).  I've had the pneumonia vaccine, so hopefully that's not in the works.  I get a flu shot every year now. 

I think I mentioned that yesterday was the last day of the wonder meds I got to get me through singing on Advent IV and Christmas Eve.  Yesterday afternoon I could feel things slipping, even though I had one more pill to go.  So it wasn't the last dose of meds, but things getting worse.  The cough really kicked in yesterday evening, so I slept in the guest bed, and woke up in the night coughing and with a runny nose (the kind that makes you feel like a 3-year old waking up at night, sick).

I called my allergist today and talked with the phone nurse.  She suggested that I get the sinus CT done -- the one ordered last week before the Christmas craziness.  I called around and wound up driving to midtown Kansas City for it.  40 minute drive each way for a 3 minute test.  Ugh.  I decided to make the most of it and ate lunch at a Thai restaurant close to the hospital where I had the test.  I took most of the food home, but it was an attempt to have the spices help open up my sinuses.  It didn't work.

So I hope and pray the results have already been faxed to my allergist and that they'll call in a script for something that will clear the sinuses and get rid of the cough.  Cough.  Hack.  Ugh.  Stay well and stay warm, dear reader!

Comments

[PlazaJen]

Ugh. I'm feelin' yer pain - slightly different symptoms, but one week later, I'm still coughing & hacking - and grateful I'm on ten days' worth of drugs, I guess. Let's toast with Thai food to getting better quickly, and ringing in the new year healthily!

[Carl V.]

I hope you're feeling better today.

Happy New Year to you and your hubbie. And the pets, of course.