Once again…

Once again, I am not well. That is twice in as many months. Of course, it may just be a continuation of the bronchitis I had at the beginning of January. I never really felt like I fully recovered from that.  I did feel much better in the past six weeks or so but I still had a congested feeling first thing in the morning and the occasional coughing spell.  But I thought it would just go away in time.

Last week, the coughing became much worse. By Friday, I was having major coughing fits and sucking on cough drops most of the day.  Luckily I have cough medicine left over from the bronchitis in January so I was able to get a good night’s sleep on Friday night.

Not so lucky on Saturday night. I took the medicine, went to bed and sort of fell asleep.  At least I think I was asleep.  I kept coughing but I think I was falling right back to sleep in between coughing spells.  After about two hours of this, I dragged myself out of bed and went to sit in the living room.  I didn’t seem to cough as much sitting up so I sat there and kind of slept/dozed for a couple of hours.

When I realized that I hadn’t coughed in about 45 minutes or so, I decided to try lying down again but that just led to some more coughing fits.  I managed to fall asleep after a while but it wasn’t a very restful sleep and eventually my alarm went off and I had to get up.  Felt like I didn’t sleep at all.

I would have stayed home Sunday morning but I needed to run the power point at church and I hate to try to call people so early in the morning to see if they can get to church by 7:45 or so to set up the power point, turn on the sound system, check batteries in the Pastor’s mike and all the other things I have to handle on a Sunday morning.  It just seemed easier to drag myself down to church than try to reach someone, explain what needed to get done and hope I remembered everything.  Not to mention I would have to call my pastor to make sure he would bring a copy of the power point on a flash drive to church.  I always e-mail him a copy of it on Saturday but he doesn’t always bring his laptop to church on Sunday so, unless I ask him, the power point would be at his house. Not a huge issue but an inconvenience.

After church yesterday, I didn’t stay for Bible Class but came right home…after stopping at the grocery store for a few items. I did have the sense to work on the church newsletter right away when I came home so I wouldn’t forget to get it done. When that was mostly done (still waiting on a couple of things I need to check before it will be completed), I sat in my chair, watching TV and trying not to cough too much for the rest of the afternoon.

Last night was another wonderful night of coughing, sitting up, trying to sleep, coughing, trying to sleep…until the alarm went off and I had to get up and get ready for work.  I am going in today but only because we have a great deal of shipping to do and I don’t want to cause other people more work by not being there to do my work.

I am thinking that I might want to go to the doctor to see what can be done about this coughing.  Although I am going to see her next week for my annual exam.  Then again, I don’t think I should wait that long to see her.  I don’t know.  I’m just too tired to think about it.

Note: another disadvantage to not having a husband. If I was married, I could let him take care of me and make the decision on whether or not I should go to the doctor.  Then I could just relax and try to rest and let him handle all the details of life.

I’m sure I will get better soon.  Just need to wait for my body to heal.  Stubborn body.  Seems to want to do things on it’s own timetable and completely inconvenience me and other people.  Oh well.  It is what it is!