Short version of this entry: I'm still sick. Woe! Pity me, for I am piteous! Or maybe pitiful.<\/p>\n
This cold arrived rather suddenly on the evening of Thursday, December 30. It mostly wasn't terribly serious—dropped to the level of a minor irritant fairly quickly, and mostly stayed there. There've been two or three times that I've gone a full 24 hours without coughing, and a couple of weeks when I was only coughing every few hours. And the cough has mostly been the only symptom.<\/p>\n
But then once a week or so, the cold comes back in full force, and I lose a day or two to exhaustion.<\/p>\n
Most of this past week, it's been getting worse rather than better, possibly exacerbated by sleeping problems. I've been sleeping just fine most of the time for months, but I haven't had a full night's sleep since last Wednesday or so. I keep being woken up by what sounds like someone walking around on my roof, or by what sounds like someone revving a motorcycle engine in my backyard. I keep not being able to get to sleep 'cause the bed's too cold. (I'm thinking of obtaining a hot water bottle or an electric blanket.) Though sometimes it's too warm. I keep waking up after a couple of hours and then taking an hour or two to fall back asleep.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the cold symptoms got much worse; yesterday I coughed every couple of minutes all day; today I'm wiped out. And kind of sore and achy all over. Still no fever, though.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I finally gave in and made a doctor's appointment. (And in the process, discovered that the Palo Alto Medical Foundation now has a branch in Mountain View! Significantly more convenient for me.) So I'll be going in this afternoon to get examined, and presumably to be told, “Yep, you have a cold,” because that's what doctors have said to me every time I've gone in to see them about a cold.<\/p>\n
But at least when people ask me if I've seen a doctor, I'll be able to say yes.<\/p>\n
What I would like to do with the rest of the day is lie down and sleep, but I have a work deadline impending, so I'm gonna try to get some work done.<\/p>\n
(PS: I gather that what I have is pretty much what everyone else has had—the long-lasting cough seems to be a very common symptom. So this is nothing especially unusual or awful, I'm just feeling especially tired of it today.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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