I’ve got a cold, perhaps my third (?) since September. Or perhaps it’s just really been one long one. It’s all a bit hazy to me at this point.
What I do know is this: I have a terrible cough. I always get a terrible cough. And by terrible I mean TERRIBLE…. non-stop dry hacking that makes my face red and my eyes water and bulge out. It has affected the quality of my life. I don’t want to go to a movie, or volunteer in the classroom or talk to anyone for fear of breaking into one of my hackfests. All I want to do is lie on the couch with a box of Kleenex at my elbow.
Last time I had this cough I went to my doctor and was prescribed an inhaler and a nose-spray. The inhaler makes me jittery and the nose spray smells like potpourri on crack.
I asked him if this was the way it was going to be. He indicated I’m just the type of person who gets a cough when she gets a cold. But I can’t help but wonder if there isn’t more that could be done. Should I see a specialist? What if I have the beginning stages of lung cancer?
Saturday night I came home and had a huge coughing fit that had me coughing so hard I was spitting up saliva into the toilet.
My brain is clouded. I am in a creative coma.Â
I am tired and sad. My body isn’t working the way it should be. And that’s a hard pill to swallow.
