The Day I Coughed. A Lot.
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I’m writing this from my bed, propped up on six pillows and trying my best to breathe without rasping or coughing lime-green phelm (sp?) all over the screen. You gotta admire the timing of this; the day after buying my laptop I’m incapable of getting up and getting to my desktop.
I’ve been riding a cold/flu for several weeks now and everytime it seemed as though the cold was moving down onto my chest and upsetting my asthma, things would settle down again and I’d avoid a chest infection. But this time no such luck. From yesterday evening, I’ve been struggling to catch my breath and last night was horrible. Unable to lie down and incapable of sleeping thanks to a ugly hacking cough that woke me everytime I started to drop off – topped off with a sleep-deprived and restless son – meant that I got very little sleep. If it wasn’t for my lovely husband taking Sam downstairs very early this morning to give me some peace, I doubt I’d have had more than a couple of hours rest the whole night.
This has, of course, now completely fucked up my plans. This week was supposed to be one of hard slog, including redecorating and organising the dining room and an overhaul of that crappy, messy pit that I occasionally refer to as the spare room/my study. But since I now can’t stand up without collapsing into a hacking coughing fit, it looks doubtful. I am SO pissed off. I so rarely get time off – let alone time off with a child well enough to go to creche and be out of the way! – it’s nothing but a pain in the ass to have developed Bronchitis now. I don’t have time to sit in bed. I have THINGS TO DO, goddammit.
So, yeah. My mood is extraordinarily cranky today.
V xx
p.s. It still feels shitty complaining about anything following the horrors in Asia, BTW. Everything I type makes me feel hypocritical and ungrateful but, please, know that I don’t mean it that way, okay?
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On 28 December, 2004 at 1:16 pm, Scarlet said:
I totally understand how you feel about bitching and compaining when terrible things are going on in Asia. I hate myself because of that too! My blog is full of ridiculous things! Boy, I feel stupid.
Anyway, you are sick! I hope that your flu goes away fast. It’s terrible to have to lay in bed when there are loads of things to do, but nevermind about it and just rest! Take a break. It is forced, but it is still a break.
*hugs*
On 29 December, 2004 at 6:31 pm, valerie said:
Aw sorry honey, hope you feel better soon!