Cold progressing fast

[cjsmith]

I'm past the eating-caltrops stage, past the brief "feeling half decent except my nose is a faucet" stage, and am now in the "there's a knife behind my sternum" stage. I don't think I've had things go this fast before.

Didn't sleep at all last night - had to keep getting up to blow my nose & take more Sudafed. Also, any time I breathed I needed to cough, and even the tiniest cough-like hint of motion reminded me of that knife behind my sternum. But man, is this cough ever productive. That stuff tastes truly nasty, by the way. I'd forgotten how nasty.

Also, when I try to talk I sound like a duck. I think today will be another stay in bed day.

Comments

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Long Showers will help.
You can get hot tea on the plane. Drink lots of it. Bring your own bags of tea (tea leaves aren't liquid) if you hate generic. But DRINK Tea. Herbal is best, but any tea will give you liquids and let you breathe in steam. This is a good thing.
There is now cough and cold medicine in a strip, again no liquids, that you can take on the plane. Do take something for the congesion, otherwise the air pressure changes will make things much worse.
Vicks VapoRub. But if you take it on the plane you'll need a tiny tube since they do consider that a liquid.
And lots of Kleenix. If nothing else, the other people on the plane will appreciate it.
Travel safely.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! About the tea: whenever I am sick I rediscover that warm / hot water is the soothingest drink in the whole wide world. Mmmmm, hot water.

Rob did find cough and cold medicine in pill form. YAY!

I'll be wearing a face mask on the plane. I'm wishing the person who sat behind me on the flight to Louisville, almost a week ago, had had one. She was coughing up a storm and not even trying to cover her mouth. (Thanks, lady, for the wonderful holiday you gave me.)