Cough @ MindSay

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I woke up at half 5 in the morning.
I had a temperature and a migraine.
I took off my pyjama shirt and turned on my pillar fan.

The fan made me cold, but I was still too warm.
That makes no sense.
My body was cold but my head was warm.

I've spent the whole of today lazing around in my pyjamas listening to my chest.
I hate it when I can hear myself breathe.

I definatley have a chest infection.
It's unsual for me to get them at this time of year though.
I normally get them in the winter - November time, or in the summer - around August.

I have that breathing sound.
The inhale is really long and laboured and the exhale sounds like I have expanding and contracting hedgehogs rubbing their spines against whiteboards in my chest.

Mam's making me overdose on all sorts of tablets and medicines.
I had Anadin Extra this morning for my fever and migraine - and you're not meant to mix them with anything else that has paracetamol in them.
I'm also not meant to take them because I'm asthmatic.

She then goes out and gets me cough medicine and Day Nurse.
I've been taking those all day.

Luckily, she's got me chocolate, cheeseburgers and Pepsi Max to balance it out. :)

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I ate chicken noodles for my lunch and finished off Wario Ware: Smooth Moves.
For months now, I thought I had all of the pose cards - but I was actually missing 3 from the shitty Orbulon level.
Having been playing Bully for hours on end, I'm now used to the Nunchuk controls - so I sat myself down and collected the missing cards.
I now have the shiny pink flower. My Backloggery is no longer lying. :)

Speaking of Bully - after I'd gotten those cards, I got my 100.00% completion. :)
All I had left to do was to beat the arcade game scores. After I'd done that, my score shot up to 100%, from 98%.
That's a bit glitchy, I don't think that one score was worth 2%, when some missions aren't even worth a full percent.

Either way - 100.00% now. :)
I gave myself a Master Crystal on my Backloggery.

The rules say you should only give yourself them for speed runs and challenges.
I would say that games like Zelda and Paper Mario - anything that has a STUPID load of collectibles - if you manage to get EVERYTHING - that's mastering a game.

Crystals for me. :)

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I've spent a bit of time finishing off my Unit 2 Photography sketchbook.
Paul says he wants our Unit 1 books tomorrow - but the way my chest sounds, I won't even be going to college tomorrow.
(Hopefully... HOPEFULLY...)

I can't stay off on Tuesday though - I need to go in for my English lesson.
Exam on Friday. Gahhh...

I'll probably be going to the doctors after my lesson on Tuesday though.
God knows when Paul will get these sketchbooks.

Whatever - he says we have 2 weeks before the moderation.
I can swing that. I'm awesome.
Unlike most people in the group - I actually do work on my sketchbook.
Decent work, at that. :P

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Ash wasn't able to make it this Saturday - her and her family were off somewhere as a day-late birthday outing.
Damn them. I wish my family cared about me the way Ash's cared for her.
Regardless.

Shelly still came along - which I'm glad of.
I don't like spending Saturdays alone if I can help it.
One thing that's for sure about Saturdays is that I won't do any college or schoolwork.
I won't do homework, I won't do coursework and I won't do revision.
Saturdays are my days for chill.

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Before Shelly came, I tidied up my room, brushed my hair, cut my nails and ran myself a bath.
(I really can't wait till the shower works again. This bathing malarkey is doing my nut.)

Shelly stood in the bathroom with me and talked to me while I washed my hair.
Then I asked if she'd scrub my back. :)
She washed all of me - even getting off all the song lyrics I'd written up my arms in yesterday's English lesson.
When I get bored, I write lyrics on my hands and up my arms. The ink on my hands tends to come off with sweating and washing my hands after using the toilet though.

After my bath, we laid on my bed for a while, cuddling and kissing.
I warned her that I have a chest infection, but she carried on kissing me.
I can see her getting my sore throat and cough now. I did warn her though.

It feels like quite a while since we've had this much time alone.
Of course, we took advantage of that. :)

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Time passes so fast when you're having lesbian fun. :P

Either way - I started to feel really ill at around 5.
We went downstairs for something to eat - and I don't remember what happened.

There's a big piece of my time recollection missing.
Shelly said she found me laid on the floor in the living room and I wasn't breathing. She thinks I passed out.
I know I went downstairs before her - but all I can remember is her picking me up and propping me against the wall while she went to get my inhalers from upstairs.

I'd taken too much of my Salbutamol - I got the shaky hands.
Overdosing on inhalers wrecks the stability in your fingers. No matter how hard you try, you can't keep them still.

I was making microwave pasta for myself - Shelly didn't trust me to pour the boiling water, with my dizzy disorientation and my shaky asthma overdose hands.
She was worried about me. She was doing a lot for me, making sure I didn't hurt myself.

A lot of the time I didn't understand what she was saying, so I think she repeated herself a lot.

I felt that she cared a lot though.
That made me feel special and loved.

I don't like to think that I scared her though.
Whatever I did, I didn't mean to do it...

I had a really bad cough and it was unusual too. Finally, after trying EVERYTHING (chicken noodle soup, nasal spray, green tea, etc.), I figured out that it was a dry cough and due to ALLERGIES!  With the help of Claritin, all my troubles started to go away.

But then the weather got really hot again, and the cough kind of came back, so I needed to buy more Claritin. I had the 12-hour kind and it seemed to wear off after only 5 or 6 hours. Now I have the 24-hour kind, and sure enough after about 10 hours, I become desperate for another one. It is so weird, but Claritin seems to last only half of the amount of time they claim.  However, it works, so I'm not complaining!

Today, I have my Mom on my mind.  She has been suffering with a chronic, terrible cough for over a year now.  Specialist to specialist, each new diagnosis or, more commonly, lack of definitive diagnosis, prolongs her agony.

 

We have went thru protocols for allergies, asthma, COPD and acid refulx.  All these conditions can cause her symptoms.  Still, she coughs.

 

So she's going to her doctor once more today.  I plan to get some internet work done and get a massage while she's gone.  

 

Massage!  Oh, it's not a luxury.  It's a necessity.  I try to get a massage at least one day per week.  I love it as a wellness tool and even health maintenance.  It keeps me sane.

 

I also see a chiropractor once every two ro three weeks but not just any chiropractor.  I found out about a technique call Directional Nonforce Chiropractic.  It's nothing at all like a standard adjustment.  If you wanta read about it go here:  http:///www.nonforce.net

See ya tomorrow.  Blessings, Neva