It's still a cold
Jun. 1st, 2010 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgAnother day, another shade of phlegm. That's right, it's time for (all together now): Too Much Information! The game for all the family members you want to traumatise.
It's easier to swallow now, and it's even possible to forget that I have a sore throat when I'm not talking. I don't think I spoke one word to anyone until about 4pm. Talking bad. Amusing for spectators (Husband), but bad for me. Gums don't hurt as much, and the teeth feel more stable.
Still blowing the nose a lot but I dare to hope that it has dried up a little bit. Now producing some charming thick green phlegm on occasion, but it's not coming from the lungs. Hard to tell under the lights but I think the colour is lighter this evening than it was during the day. I can breathe through my mouth fine, but every now and then I'll sneeze or just start spontaneously hacking away and that hurts the throat pretty quickly. So I'm lucky in that I don't have a cough per se, but my voice is in a satisfyingly disasterous state. Lungs happy although ribs are sore.
Feverish still, but my temperature is so often out of control that these fluctuations might just continue seemlessly for a while still. I think I smell bad.
With all the spluttering and green stuff I felt as contagious as all hell (and just generally icky still) so I stayed away from work. My apologies to the supermarket population, but I washed my hands and didn't cough. The rest is up to everyone else's immune systems.
Still feeling the difference to having a fibro/CSF flare: I only really feel sick from the neck up, whereas during a flare I feel "sick" from all points of the compass. I've had plenty of experience at being home all day, but time has gone very very slowly. It's a bit difficult to separate history of infection from history of chemical reactions, but I've got a chance here of having an energetic spell once I'm over the infection. I'm looking forward to that sudden HEY I FEEL BETTER!!! buzz. If I don't get a flare that is. I like the HEY I FEEL BETTER!!! buzz; it's one of the few advantages of my whacky body chemistry.
So, despite the phlegm it's an URTI still, showing no signs of becoming bronchitis, nor indeed pneumonia, for which I was hospitalised in '91 and which remained a threat for years after. That was no fun at all :-(
But tonight I feel reasonably cheerful, and phlegm is such a fun and musical word.
It's easier to swallow now, and it's even possible to forget that I have a sore throat when I'm not talking. I don't think I spoke one word to anyone until about 4pm. Talking bad. Amusing for spectators (Husband), but bad for me. Gums don't hurt as much, and the teeth feel more stable.
Still blowing the nose a lot but I dare to hope that it has dried up a little bit. Now producing some charming thick green phlegm on occasion, but it's not coming from the lungs. Hard to tell under the lights but I think the colour is lighter this evening than it was during the day. I can breathe through my mouth fine, but every now and then I'll sneeze or just start spontaneously hacking away and that hurts the throat pretty quickly. So I'm lucky in that I don't have a cough per se, but my voice is in a satisfyingly disasterous state. Lungs happy although ribs are sore.
Feverish still, but my temperature is so often out of control that these fluctuations might just continue seemlessly for a while still. I think I smell bad.
With all the spluttering and green stuff I felt as contagious as all hell (and just generally icky still) so I stayed away from work. My apologies to the supermarket population, but I washed my hands and didn't cough. The rest is up to everyone else's immune systems.
Still feeling the difference to having a fibro/CSF flare: I only really feel sick from the neck up, whereas during a flare I feel "sick" from all points of the compass. I've had plenty of experience at being home all day, but time has gone very very slowly. It's a bit difficult to separate history of infection from history of chemical reactions, but I've got a chance here of having an energetic spell once I'm over the infection. I'm looking forward to that sudden HEY I FEEL BETTER!!! buzz. If I don't get a flare that is. I like the HEY I FEEL BETTER!!! buzz; it's one of the few advantages of my whacky body chemistry.
So, despite the phlegm it's an URTI still, showing no signs of becoming bronchitis, nor indeed pneumonia, for which I was hospitalised in '91 and which remained a threat for years after. That was no fun at all :-(
But tonight I feel reasonably cheerful, and phlegm is such a fun and musical word.
