April 17, 2009
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argh!
*cough* *cough* *hack* *cough* *hack*
If I were forced to speak this entry that’s all you’d hear right about now. Thankfully due to the magic of the keyboard I’m able to communicate semi-intelligibly even as I feel like my lungs are about to fly out of my mouth and slap against by laptop screen.
So yeah I woke up in the middle of the night with a hacking cough that is holding by breathing hostage. I’d say I feel like shit, but I said that yesterday during the day. So right now I think I must feel like something unspeakably disgusting that shit doesn’t like to touch for fear of being contaminated. And my fucking back still hurts too! grraaah!!
I never imagined I could start to feel so sick so quickly. God, on the 15th I felt pretty damn good, well enough to go out to dinner. Maybe that was my fatal mistake. The whole free gift card was a ruse to get me in there where I could be contaminated by this secret virus designed to incapacitate me so that my enemies can get away with their evil plot for world domination! Or maybe my waitress was just sick and didn’t like us so decided to give a couple of good coughs onto our food before serving it to us. Either way, someone must pay!
Likewise if you out there decided to cast some vodoo magic spell on me to make my throat burn, my head pount, my eyes water, and nostrils stuffed, I’d like to invite you over to my nice apartment. Please stand over by the wall and relax while I stick large, sharp, pointy objects into you slowly and with relish! Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. I won’t let you bleed to death. At least not quickly. I want you to suffer…
Gah! Does anyone know if it’s ok to take mucinex and sudofed together? I’m not talking about the stuff you can just pick up in the aisles too. I’m talking about the real shit. The stuff you gotta show your ID and sign your life away to get a hold of. Will taking those together cause some unspeakable horrors? What about if I take it with some benadryll, ibuprofen, aspirin, and cough drops and maybe some zicam max cough spray on top. That’s all the medicine i’ve got around right now. Well I don’t have the zicam but I’m thinking about going and getting some.
If you’re concerned for my safety, don’t worry I haven’t tried the medicinal overdose strategy yet. Instead I took a 1000 mg Vitamin C suplement with a glass of OJ and finally ate my chicken noodle soup. I did take one ibuprofen and I’m sucking a cough drop but that’s all I’ll do for now. However, if I still feel like this by tomorrow, drastic measures may be necessary.
Yeah drastic measures like, god forbid, going to a fucking doctor. God I never go to doctors. I don’t even have a primary care physician right now. Do you know I’ve never been to a doctor for myself since moving to Indiana? I don’t even know where to find one. And then I gotta fill out all the new patient paperwork crap. I also have to figure out a way to drive there without hacking myself off the road into a ditch somewhere. It’s such a pain.
Maybe one of you can drop by and slip me some under the table amoxicillin instead? Or mail it? I’m pretty sure that’s what I’ll get if I go to a doctor, that or just some fucking slightly stronger stupidly expensive cough syrup. Waste of money and time.
At this rate I might not be able to go to work tomorrow. I know my boss says sick days don’t really count against me but I don’t really believe him completely. I mean how does he know I’m sick and not faking it? I hope he heard me coughing yesterday in the office but how should I know. I didn’t say anything and I was trying to seem normal since I thought it was just particularly strong allergies and not anything more serious.
Then again if I do go to work I’d feel horrible if I infected my boss and that spread to his whole family. I wouldn’t feel bad at all about infecting any of the other imaginary people I work with. Their names are Joe, Bob, Kate, and Sarah and they work in cubicles in the top drawer of my desk. I call them my little peeps. They call me GOD but who can blame them since I’m a huge not so invisible man in the sky looking down on them. Tomorrow they’ll be in for a surprise though cuz first thing I’m going to do when i go into work is open that drawer and give a nice big hacking cough on them just to be mean you know? I kinda feel like that’s whtat my big guy in the sky did to me last night. Jerk.
Times like these I feel very small and inconsquential. Powerless. Well getting sick’s not the only thing that occurred yesterday to make me feel tiny and irrelevant but it’s the only thing I care to write about right now. It’s a horrible feeling. Like you have no control over your destiny. Like your precious living time is slowly being sucked away and stolen from you. It’s misery.
ARRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I hate this feeling! I hate being sick! I hate being unable to sleep! I know I sound like a whiny little bitch right now but who fucking cares. Sickness fails. I loathe thee sickness! Come out and fight like a man so I can beat the crap out of you! Or something.
Sigh. I guess I’ll try to sleep again. Now that I’ve exhausted myself with random incoherent ranting maybe there’s a chance I’ll succeed. The ibuprofen is starting to kick in too which is helping a bit. I’ll give it a shot. Hopefully I won’t be back here in two hours writing about how I feel even *worse* than before. Actually I probably wouldn’t be back then. I’ll probably have smashed my laptop into the floor in an incoherent rage and started jumping up and down on it. That kidna makes it hard to type blog entries. So for the sake of my laptop, please let my body get better or at least not get any worse.
Anyways, wish me luck.
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Comments (10)
Holy crap! I hope you feel better Kellen!
Yayyy for chicken noodle soup! I hope that makes you feel better…
@Ritzypuffles - thanks Ritzy. I’m feeling a bit better now. Got some antibiotics from the doctor. Before I wasn’t feeling good enough to feel pissy. NOW I’m feeling kinda pissy. lol.
Ahhh good thing you got some antibiotics. Wish you a speedy recovery. Agree with Ritzy, this entry was entertaining!
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Lungs slapping against the screen . . . now there’s an image that’s going to stay in my mind for a while . . .
@duckling8912 - thanks Athena! I’m glad it amused you both
@chocolatescifi - lol no idea where I pulled that one out of. glad it’s memorable. ^_^
Yes, you can mix sudafed and mucinex. Even the heacy duty shit. “What about if I take it with some benadryll, ibuprofen, aspirin, and cough drops and maybe some zicam max cough spray” yeah, not so much. If you’re actually sick, not having allergies, then avoid benadryll — it’s an antihistamine so it works differently than a normal decongestant. You’d be flooding your system with drugs you don’t need and aren’t using, which is bad for your kidneys and also makes you build up an immunity so it won’t work as well when you actually do need it. You can take it with ibuprofen and aspirin, but go easy on these because they thin your blood which can make you stay sick longer. And I woulkd choose either cough spray or cough drops, not both.
Bam! I’m like fucking WebMD over here. My mom calls me an old lady because I know so much about drugs and all the ways you can die because of drugs and health conditions.
@elvesdoitbetter - wow you’re full of useful information. ^_^
Let’s see what you can do with more information. Let’s see…
Two summers ago I went to a doctor after coughing intermittently for like 4 months and the doc suspected I had seasonal allergies (that i developed late in life). And some sort of weird pills he subscribed worked good, but i didn’t have insurance at the time and so I didn’t keep paying for it or going back to the doctor to get new prescriptions. My cough reduced in the winter (never fully went away) and came back the following summer all the while I survived with mucinex and calritin type stuff. But then when I moved to Indiana my cough completely vanished. That was in May last summer.
This year when I started coughing again about a week ago, the Spring weather had just set in so I assumed it was seasonal allergies. But then last Thursday night I started to feel really really sick and it was not like anything mere allergies had ever caused before, so I went to a doctor who had no clue what it was but said it was just an upper respiratory thing. She prescribed an antibiotic z-pack thingy just in case and told me and I quote “keep taking the sudafed or whatever”.
So yeah I wonder if taking benadryl with the other stuff will help or not? I don’t know if it’s allergies, allergies and something else, or if in a week my cough will disappear again. So yeah I’m still coughing like crazy. I’ve been sucking a ton of cough drops, taking sudafed twice a day and lots of vitamins and still feeling like shit every night. I might try combining with mucinex now that I know it’s ok, but yeah those things just treat symptoms I think I need to figure out what the heck is wrong.
Anyways, thanks for the info and any help you can give is much appreciated! If not, thanks for listening anyway.
@nephyo - Do you ever have trouble breathing along with the coughing? If so it could be reactive airway disease. Also, is it throat coughing or lung coughing? Throat coughing would indicate allergies or chronic dehydration. Lung coughing would point to reactive airway, especially if it’s not in conjunction with sinus symptoms.
It could very well be allergies (and, yes, I know exactly how annoying that answer is). If you develop allergies late in life then you’re more likely to keep developing allergies, which would be why you didn’t have any symptoms when you first moved (you’re away from the old allergens) but then the symptoms came back (developed new allergies).
Singulair works really well with lung/allergy combinations (it’s both an allergy and an asthma medication), but it is kind of expensive.
@elvesdoitbetter - it’s definitely more throat coughing. I do feel short of breath sometimes when i’m coughing a LOT over a short period but provided I’m not running around or exerting myself a lot I generally breathe just fine. I do seem to feel worse at night and when I’m more tired and exercising sets me off to coughing.
I’m guessing it is allergies cuz mostly it feels similar to what it felt like before but it wasn’t as bad before. Oh well I guess I may end up being doomed to allergic coughing for the rest of my days. yuck. I’ll look into Sinclair once my insurance allows me to get medication for this since it’s still a pre-exisitng condition right now. stupid insurance system. A few more months until then.