I’ve Got a Cold
I think I mentioned that I’ve had the sore scratchy throat ever since I quit smoking. Well the other night I got about an hour’s sleep because somebody kept snoring the whole fucking night through, and I kept yelling, “somebody, stop snoring!” but that would only work for a couple of minutes and then he’d be right back at it.
So I went out into the living room, thinking that I’d sleep there. However, my body was not in the mood for more sleeping after I’d already had an hour’s sleep. On top of that, I kept feeling itchy. So I’d relax, trying to talk myself into sleep (or hypnotize myself) and then I’d be itchy – this stupid dry winter weather has done that.
After realizing I wouldn’t sleep, I got on the computer and played some of those facebook games. After exhausting that option I went back to the living room and turned the TV on. So at around 5:00 in the morning, I did get back to sleep – so I could wake up at 5:45 to get ready for work.
Anyway, it was downhill from there. I felt like crap at work. My scratchy throat was really, really sore and I had given my throat spray to my daughter who showed up with a cold one day looking for medicine. I was drifting off to sleep at times during the day and I felt like going home.
So I went off to the doctor last night to see if he could give me something for the throat. He said there was no infection (I was expecting him to say I had tonsilitis since I used to get that so often in my life). He didn’t even prescribe anything…. ummm, hello, my throat is really, really sore, that’s why I’m here. He did tell me to go and get an ultrasound done and gave me a paper to take with me. I called them but that’s not scheduled now for another week.
So I stopped to get some chloraseptic spray – numbs your throat – and picked up some chloraseptic lozenges which also seem to work somewhat that way. I put the humidifier on in the bedroom last night and forced my snookey to sleep on the couch instead of me to see if I could get some sleep.
The good thing was that I went to bed at 11:00, slept the whole night through and was up and at em at 6:00 this morning. The bad thing was that the humidifier didn’t do anything for my throat, and now it seems like I have a cold with a stuffy nose and a cough to go along with that sore throat, and I felt like crap again.
So I emailed work and told them I wouldn’t be in. I went back to bed and slept til about 9-ish. I intend to go back to bed at some point after I go to the store and buy some more kinds of cold medicine (the kinds that will put you out). It’s really boring to stay home from work when you’re sick, unless, of course, you can spend your time in bed all day. Hopefully I can do that.
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
53
is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
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