As of today, I have been coughing for two weeks straight. I caught a cold at the end of September and was just getting over it, with the cough still lingering, when I came down with another cold (this one more severe--worse sore throat and ear pain in addition to congestion) last Saturday.
My cough has been so bad the last three nights that I've hardly slept. I've tried everything that is available over-the-counter, and none of it has helped much. I'm frickin' exhausted.
(TMI: I also have urinary stress incontinence since having my sons, which makes for a lot of extra fun when I have a bad cough like this. Good times. . . .)
I'm really more annoyed by this than anything. Things had been going relatively smoothly for me. . . well, as smoothly as they ever seem to go in my life post-children. Since my hospitalization in early May, I'd only been sick once, with a GI virus in early July. I had recently started exercising regularly for the first time since my sons were born, and I'd managed to keep up the habit for three consecutive weeks before these colds hit me. Now I've had to put that on hold for no other reason than that I am absolutely worn out.
It isn't even cold and flu season yet! And our daytime highs here are still hovering around 100 degrees!
Anyway. I know that no one ever died from a cold, that there is nothing that can be done to shorten the duration of a cold, and that I'll be back to normal in another week or so. But right now, this just sucks. I just want to sleep and stop having to wear a diaper-like Po.ise pad all the time.
I thought it might make you feel better to know that after the first few years, your kids do build up immunity and you all stop getting sick so often. At least, that's the way it is around here. I also take Emergen-C all fall and winter and it really seems to help me stave off the colds. And when I do have a cold, I take dayquil and nyquil religiously. You might already do all that, or it doesn't help you, but those are my tips and tricks. My exercise routine often gets completely messed up by illness, though, whether my own illness or someone else in the family.
ReplyDeleteMy cold from hell was bronchitis. It got better the minute I started antibiotics. Go to a doctor :)
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you feel awful, though.