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8:50pm May 18, 2012

This cold is kicking my ass.

I haven’t gone to the bathroom in disturbingly long for me. (My theory is dehydration plus not wanting to pour a smoothie (fiber) down my throat for a couple days.)

I have a migraine. Triggered by the sinus pain.

I have a cough headache. Which makes it further hard to cough stuff up, and to push on the toilet.

I have a lot of stuff that isn’t getting coughed up at all, despite continuous coughing. And the stuff I do cough up is getting darker and darker.

And I’m coughing up blood. Just because. Not enough to see a doctor about (trust me, I know from repeated experience), but enough to have me concerned that continued coughing with such irritated airways isn’t good, even though I have to because the alternative’s worse.

If I end up with a lung infection or pneumonia I’m going to be peeved. Not at anyone in particular except cold viruses. Okay scratch that – also peeved at the doctors and nurses who didn’t take a series of infections pneumonia seriously and thus effectively sat back and watched bronchiectasis happen.

A friend just pointed out to me that lately any time I get around a large group of people I get sick. Which is true. Both because that’s exactly how bugs spread and because (so a doctor told me last time) the stress levels screw with my immune system. I’m thinking that given how much work it is to go to them and how trashed they make me, maybe I should quit going to conferences. I’ve already given up on all but the local ones so it’s not that hard to just stop going.