Cough @ MindSay

*cough cough* That's it! I'm convinced I've been stricken with the Plague.  Now "the husband" has fallen ill.  The kiddo is spending the day with my sister so we get a little break today, but I'm afraid when the poor wee one returns home, the city will have marked our door with a red X.

Although it wasn't a New Year's resolution by design, I stopped drinking soda-type beverages on January 1st of this year.  I woke up sleepy and groggy from the previous night's Cake-filled festivities and slammed down two Diet Coke's in less than 15 minutes without even thinking about it.  A few minutes later I realized what I had done and determined that I needed to reduce my dependancy on soda.  Those were the last two sodas that I've had.

However, like any great addiction, I replaced it with something else.  Diet Lipton Iced Green Tea (Citrus) has been my go-to drink since then.  Most days I drink 6 bottles of that beautiful, tasty beverage.  I do my fair share of water during the week, but not on the weekend.  A weekend day is made up of less water and more green tea.  The new addiction was firmly in place.

Imagine the withdrawal I've been suffering this week as I've had to give up my new addiction, too.

I've had a pretty vicious cough for the past two weeks.  I had been treating the cough with occasional blasts of cough medicine and a never-ending supply of cough drops.  At one point, paths4byzantium told me that the green tea was drying out her throat and making her own lingering cough worse.  I laughed it off as coincidence and continued downing the green tea.  Monday morning on my drive to work, I noticed that my throat was doing better until I took my first swig of green tea.  My throat clenched up and the coughing fit began.  Was the tea really that instrumental in delaying the return of health to my throat?

That was the last green tea I've had.  Since Monday, I've gone to strictly water and milk and ramped up the amount of cough medicine I'm taking.  Each day my cough has improved more and more.  It's still there, but it's not as dehabilitating as it was on Monday.  I hope to have it completely conquered and my throat back to normal by Monday.

Which is good, because I could really go for some green tea right now.

Isn't that cute? LOL!

Anyhow...my update while watching American Idol:

Had a busy and fun weekend. I still have a cold...but its getting better..its mostly a cough that is annoying every now and then but for the most part it's under control..there..but controlled. My sister came down Saturday and we went to Ikea and shopped...I got a few items... and some decorating ideas :)  I can't wait to use my new Wok and I only paid 6.99 for it!  Then they took us out to eat at a seafood restaurant called Joes Crabshack for our anniversary! We had such a fun time. :) Still full.. oh wait, we still ate more after that night!

The next day, they came back from their friends house, I didn't go to church cause of my cough...our church isn't a 'quiet' church service, but a barky cough is distracting anywhere!  So, that afternoon we went up to Georgia's largest Flea market in Pendergrass and spent the afternoon walking around looking at the vendors stuff and having fun. At least I did. :)

They spent the night and left out Monday morning and I went back to work  And promptly went into a coughing fit, luckily the client was in the same boat as me, but I had to step out and get some hot tea, the warmth really stops it.

Today, I started my part time job..they assigned me my first project. I think I did very well with it today! It will take me a bit to get back in my groove with that kind of work, we'll see !!!

Hope you are doing FABULOHSOH!

Dawn

The last two weeks I have been sucking immensely at all my tests I've had, but this week I've been able to get back up into the B's again :D

I got an 82 on my medical terminology test and an 89 on my anatomy test, w00t :D

I feel sick as ever today though, I woke up and I couldn't breathe, and my throat was so dry from breathing it hurt, and I was coughing so much this morning I almost barfed, it sucked badly :(:(

Things are going much better though :D