A Pox, A Plague… A Cold.
Well, it’s been a while… a long while, in fact, since last I was sick. I am not certain as to what I have caught this time around and since I have no health insurance I suppose I won’t be finding out (at least not through the regular venues of sickness diagnosis).
Here’s the deal…
It started with a sore throat and pretty intense body aches. A day later we added a cough and the sore throat got bad enough that I started to suspect strep. Two days later everything stayed more or less the same. The body aches were less, but then I WAS on a steady diet of Theraflu. To their credit, that stuff works AMAZINGLY well and tastes better than everything else I had tried. 3 days later the sore throat began to fade and I developed a small cough. Day 4- Sore throat gone. Body aches in the morning and the coughing went from a 1 to a 5. Day 5- Today I feel like someone clubbed me in my sleep. I have a minimal appetite (I ate a waffle for breakfast regardless of how hungry I though I was… now I feel like dying.) and I am EXHAUSTED! My lungs feel like they have rocks in them and nothing seems to be doing a very good job of loosening the phlegm. I have taken expectorants and mucus thinners… Dimatapp, Robitussin, Day/Nyquil. I get a little bit of relief from them, typically just enough to go on with my day. The next step is to hook up the vaporizer at night and take a sudafed before bed. That worked last time I had a bad cough and chest congestion.
Aside from myself though, it seems a lot of people I know got sick this past weekend. One friend managed to catch what his doctor called a bacterial version of the flu. It came complete with vomiting, dizziness and a fever of 102.7F. Fun times.
My roomates girlfriend also managed to catch something. Her symptoms point to some sort of allergy. wouldn’t be surprised if it was related to our heater. I think the heating ducts are really really dusty. I’ve also looked into changing the filter in the heat pump to a HEPA filter, but for some reason the filter piece of the furnace has been blocked and looks like I would have to do some minor construction work to get to it. Knowing this place, that filter has probably never been changed. I should call the local news station down to check this place out. Air leaks at all the windows and doors, bad heater, bad water heater, exposed wall sockets… I smell potential lawsuit.
And I COULD use some extra $$$. haha. Oh, America…Land of frivolous lawsuits and wreckless self gain at another’s expense.
I think if I don’t get rid of this cough soon I am just gonna die so I don’t have to deal with it anymore. My abs and ribs hurt soooooo bad from the incessant coughing.
