mmmm, thai food
i'm taking advantage of my temporary absence of appetite to decrease my caloric intake significantly (if all my body wants is hot tea and soup, so be it). kinda gotta, since the only exercise i'm getting is walking around my 815 sq' house.
Spent another 2 days home sick from work. my experiment of attempting to work on Sunday FAILED miserably. It's really not good when you can't speak loud enough to talk over hysterical callers and even worse when you realize that you are (somewhat) deliberately skipping peripheral officer-safety questions because you need to turn off your mic and have a cough-till-you-gag episode. my calls were suffering, and that's no ok.
Plus my coworkers looked at me with evil in their eyes, and i can't blame them. i hate sick people on the floor. even if they are "beyond contagion" according to a Dr.
So, all told, skipped 3 of my 4 day workweek and got NOTHING productive done. I might have written and mailed one card.
ION, some relief from raising the head of my bed on some risers i had hanging out in the basement. It's a little trippy-feeling at first, having my head 8 inches higher than my feet, but it cut down the coughing impulse a bit and i'd try sleeping upside down with a cat under each armpit if someone told me that would cut down the coughing. Tonight we try codeine in pill form, and see if that's strong enough to get me close to 8 hrs without ambien. Turns out the Tylenol+ is significantly stronger than the cough syrup. I wonder what the pharmacist thinks about my history, what with 2 diff types of codeine this week and vicodin and oxycontin about this time last year for the broken foot.