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No complaints about that, really. I went to be late and for half of the night just couldn't get to sleep. Thankfully it wasn't a rough night at all. It was relaxing. And when I got to sleep, it was revivifying. Just that when sleep is late, waking being late isn't a problem. I am feeling better in a general way. Perhaps giving the music haunting me top billing after hiding it from others finally just turned the key. It's been tagging me for quite a while now, mind you, in one form, then a slightly different form. Oh, I don't think that is necessarily quite done yet though. Merely it is not bugging me right this morning as it has most mornings since it's progenitor's inception, and before that really, a bit. The other thing that has been troubling me is a 'heavy chest', the feel that I have liquid in my longs, which are, mostly, the same thing, I think. Now, my nose is dried to the point that the snotters that collect in there, until I can figure out how to get them out, are shriveld from dehydration almost to the point of giving me a headache. I have no swelling of anything (save maybe the abdomen, though that may be an artifact from my mother's visit and cooking). But I have cotton coughs that don't clear anything, a dry throat that seems to suggest I have no phlegm if it only seems scratchy and not truly dry, and a slight difficulty breathing.
I don't know if I pushed it too much and my system isn't clearing without solid rest, if I have something like a chest cold, or if some other problem has filtered in. What I do know is the more I try to push through, by degrees, the worse it gets. I haven't tried a complete stop. Well, literal work stop, some things just have to be done. I always have to feed and water the girls, and more myself as I can, then on to the lawn and garden and dishes. When I have thought about it either I or my mother always devised some new mechanical torture which you know as work. And, I never really stopped since she left. Reminds me, I did wash the table but I didn't bring it in. Then again, that is a little thing so I will do that. And I will do other little things. Could it simply be that I'm not used to being outdoors as often as I have been?
I'll figure it out or it will pass. And I have been going out to be with Sam, and just be outdoors, several times a day since my mother left. She loves it, I need to acclimate, and I keep a better eye on what needs to be done and what could be done, plus lets Sam know someone loves her. Well, and she is kept better in fresh water than ever before.
Well, on to... something. Later.
Sounds like a job for guaifenesin. It comes in tablet form as well as liquid, and generic forms are sometimes called something like "mucus relief".
ReplyDeleteWhat it does is thins the mucus such that it can be coughed up successfully. The thick crap won't move and gives that heavy chest, dry cough thing.
I've used it quite a bit recently to help with the residual effects of the cold I fended off last month.
I'll put that on my list for the next time I'm in town. The place that might sell, more likely to, is where I get my liquid soaps anyway. It feels quite a bit like too much "water" in my system, but like I said no other signs of that exist so I suspect you are right. Didn't know there was something that could help.
ReplyDeleteI get this often, but as I am getting better, I am able to differentiate. I think I naturally fight things off well, but there is often a bit of residual effects. It's amazing how clear things can become being able to be nearly awake much more often! Oh, and thanks for the hup.
Yeah, what desert cat mentioned should work. For your nose, you might just try simple saline nose spray. That would be good to take on your trip too. I always carry it while camping.
ReplyDeleteA couple of months ago, my cough turned into bronchitis .. Miserable experience. I had to take a steroid pack. I hate the stuff.
I do hope you feel better soon.
I was just getting ready to order a saline pack, double actually just for BMan. I had wondered about using it here, now. Now I know. Just once in a while I seem to dry out down to the bones.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually amazed how well I do without anything. Still, I have to wonder if a little tending of the body might improve things a bit. I must have been really ill, and getting better though, to not have noticed some of this. All good though.