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Sick! I have spent the better part of the last 4 days in my bed or on the couch. My asthma has kicked in giving me this awful, barking cough. I've even run an off-and-on lowgrade fever. As I've said before, a fever is not a common symptom for me. I started to think about it, and I've been feeling bad and better, back and forth, since school started. I haven't felt 100% back to normal since I was so sick in August. I kept attributing it to back-to-school stress, ill students, allergies, and stuff like that. But, when I looked at the whole pattern, and how awful I felt on Friday, I decided it was time to see the doctor. She thinks I've got an infection hanging out that has been there since August. Our best guess is that it's a very mild upper-respiratory deal or something in my sinuses. Oh joy. Such a pleasant thought, isn't it...that some bacteria has just been sitting in a moist place waiting to get worse. $40 dollars later we walked out of Kaiser with Zithromax, Q-var, Albuterol, and a peak-flow meter (my darling children wrecked my old one). Great, only I'm still coughing like a lung is going to fly out of my mouth at any minute and it's impossible to sleep. So, as I type this, I'm on the phone waiting to talk to a Kaiser advice nurse. I want to know what cough medicine will give me some relief! past | future0 comments Listening to: Reading: Eating/drinking: Do what to me?!? - April 24, 2007 Wicked funny websearch - April 05, 2007 Trot out the dogs 'n ponies - March 31, 2007 Almost done... - March 20, 2007 Who am I? - March 12, 2007 READ ME |