By the time I finished eating and cleaning up my mess the clothes were done washing, so I put them into the dryer and loaded up another load into the washer. While everything was either washing or drying I sat in my chair for a while as I started feeling really tired.
I managed to cough up quite a lot of mucous and my throat was really getting sore from all the coughing and all the coughing made me tired. Just about the time I was dozing off the dryer went off so I took the clothes out and put the clothes from the washer into the dryer and turned it on again.
Then I took the clothes upstairs to fold and put them away. By this time it was time to take some more meds for my congestion and after I had taken that I went and sat in my chair. Before much longer the dryer went off again so I gathered the clothes out of the dryer took them upstairs, folded and put them away.
After lunch I noticed that the one bird feeder was just about empty so I took it down and put about five pounds of seed into it. Later on I noticed about a dozen small birds either on the feeder or on the porch eating seed that had fallen out of the feeder.
It has been a couple days since I have been able to talk without a great deal of pain; it seem like from about 0930 on my throat gets so sore for coughing that my throat just gets raw. I have tried expectorant cough syrup and once in a while some sore throat cough medicine and neither one seem to help much.
I have even started taking some pills that are supposed to relieve mucus drainage but they have not made much difference either. Each day when I get up I feel better than the day before but then by the middle of the day I start feeling pretty miserable again. Right now I would just like to have a whole day where I felt good all day.
Tonight Kathleen made some scalped potatoes and that helped my throat for a while, but now it is just as sore as it was this afternoon. I am kind of in between times when I can take any medication for it as I like to be able to take everything just before going to bed so that I can get a little sleep.
Friday, May 23, 2008
A Little Better Friday
I slept in a little longer this morning and when I did get up I felt better than I have in several days. On my way downstairs I took a couple laundry baskets of clothes downstairs with me and loaded up dark clothes before I made my breakfast.
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4 comments:
Is the cough from allergies, or do you think you have a bug?
The cough is from all the mucus and drainage irritating my throat. I was able to cough up quite a bit again this morning but that just keeps irritating my throat.
Other than not being able to breathe well I fell pretty good.
While I think that originally allergies were to blame I think that it lead to a sinus infection and now this.
I am just hoping that it does not lead to pneumonia, I first had pneumonia about fifteen years ago and the doctor has told me that once one has it they are susceptible to it reoccurring. I seem to get it every couple of years, bur right now my lungs feel okay.
I hope you are feeling better. Try to take it easy.
I do feel quite a bit better today although I am still getting a lot of mucus out and I have absolutely no voice at all.
I did take quite a long nap in my chair this afternoon so that helped a lot as well.
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