I am too sick to write or do much of anything but sleep and play Boggle.
I am well enough to take myself to the clinic, the pharmacy and the drive-through for an icy coffee drink.
That is all I can do. Snore...cough...drool...cough...cough...cough...gag...gag...cough.
Oh, I have been taking the minimum of all of the over-the-counter stuff because I wanted to keep my mucus and all that stuff flowing so that I would get well sooner. One particularly stupid thing is that I have not been taking the prescription cough medicine at night so that it would keep the mucus plugs in my lungs from getting too big and thick, and making it difficult to clear them out in the morning. I was totally wrong. My doc told me that the mucus thickens overnight because I am not constantly drinking fluids like I do during the day. Plus, because I am, again, stupid, I am probably mouth-breathing, which further dehydrates you when you are sleeping. I suck.
So.
Full decongestant meds tonight.
Full dose of cough med, and I will keep the bottle at bedside in case I need another swig in the middle of the night.
Breathe-Right strips (or whatever they are named) snugly on nose.
Bottle of water close at hand.
Full dose of all decongestant meds during the day. Turns out that they might help reduce the swelling and allow the fluids in my ears to drain. By the way, that hurts. A lot.
Yeah, I really and truly suck. Any normal person would have asked all of these questions weeks ago.
I have to wonder if I have made these mistakes at other times when I have pneumonia and assorted head-gunking-stuff. I do not remember being this ill, so I am guessing that my stupidity is a newly acquired condition.
God, I hope so.
Oh...oh...nobody knows the mucus I haz.
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