Post of Self-Indulgent Whiny Crankitude

[katallison]

I am so very, very, very, VERY tired of coughing.

I am also so very, very, very, VERY tired of:

--my co-workers' solicitous appearances at my door -- "Are you all right? It sounds like you're DYING in there! You should go home!" Because, work to do, can't go home. (Though I love my co-workers, kindly souls that they are.) (Especially my sweet funny queer-boy colleague A.--::walking in cradling hands carefully in front of him, holding invisible object:: "Hey, I found this in the hall! Your liver, right? I *thought* I heard you coughing it up! You'll probably want this back!")

--also, watching TV. Even watching DVDs of stuff I love on TV.

--also, having no brain whatsoever, and the attention span of a mayfly with ADD.

--also, having no appetite whatsoever for food of any kind.

--also, the entire house being ankle-deep in (a) used tissues and (b) dirty dishes.

--also, my bed, with its rumpled sweat-soaked-and-dried-out-again dirty sheets and heaps of disordered blankets, which I am too tired to change and straighten.

--also, being too damn tired to do anything except crawl into my messy bed by 8 p.m.

Have no concept of how I shall accomplish (a) Christmas shopping, (b) Christmas tree purchase, transport, erection, and decoration, (c) Seekrit Santa story (due in two weeks, ack ack ack!), (d) bazillion overdue projects at work.

Is it 8 p.m. yet? Can I go to bed? ::hack hack hack cough COUGH WHEEEEEEZE::

Comments

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Okay, have you been to the doctor?

Because that sounds like bronchitis.

I was just telling coreopsis about what we call The Good Stuff, which a doc can prescribe -- I think it's called No-Tuss LIQ, or hydrocodone(?). It's a cough-suppressing, sinus-clearing, sleep-inducing, lovely happy haze-creating blend of sudafed, benadryl and a low-dose narcotic pain reliever that acts as a cough suppressant. Seriously, one dose and you won't have that achy feeling in your chest that means you're going to cough again any second.

If you can handle narcotics, I recommend it highly.

This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood narcotics pusher. ;)

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Dang that LJ code. Meant to say coreopsis.

Oh, and your young queer colleague sounds like a hoot and a half.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I think it likely is bronchitis, of some mild form; I used to get bronchitis like clockwork every winter, while I was in grad school, but I really hoped I'd be able to give it a pass this year.

The Good Stuff of which you speak sounds *wonderful* -- I adore narcotics (in another age I would've been a great opium fiend), and if I'm not substantially better by Monday I'll put a call in to the clinic and see if I can get a scrip for this.

(And thank you so much! ::hugs::)

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

I went and looked it up -- the generic of No-Tuss is Hydron PSC. Hydrocodone is actually the narcotic ingredient (apparently the same thing that's in Vicodin! I had no idea!).

I would probably make a great addict. I actually look forward to getting colds so I have an excuse to break out the Good Stuff. ;)

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Opiates are very good cough suppressants in and of themselves. Dextromethorphan, which is the "DM" in most cough medicines is a chemical relative, and gets people high if taken in enough quantity. (I know somebody who had to go to a residential rehab facility to get off Robitussin -- he was drinking 8 bottles a day.)