Saw the doc, lungs are sluggishly improving. I have a new, higher dosage, advair inhaler for the next week. She also gave me a scrip for anti-biotics in case I spike a fever that doesn't drop. Beyond that, rest, keep up with the meds, and call if tomorrow isn't better.

Now, who can tell me about tessalon pearls (sp?)?

Now, who can tell me about tessalon pearls (sp?)?

The only thing I know about them is that they are one of the few things that will stop my mom's cough when she gets bronchitis.

Most cough medecines make my stomach roil. Doc thinks it is the Guaifenesin that I'm sensitive to, so we are going to try the pearls.

They work like a local anesthetic, so they kind of numb your over-irritated lungs, which reduces the reflex to cough. They're MAGIC.

Thanks Teppy. I like the sound of that.

So I'm having anxiety about going to work tomorrow. I haven't really coughed today. The decongestant I took this morning worked all day.

Going outside to the store pretty much wiped me out. But I've been out of work for 5 days (2 were scheduled days off). I'm ...just generally anxious about this. I'm also worried that I'm going to catch something else or get worse. And part of me never really wants to leave the house again (this is a bad sign). I will leave the house, I just don't want to leave my comfort zone.

Tomorrow I'll get up, I'll make a sandwich, I'll clear snow off the car and shovel (if it snows tonight) and then I'll go to work and deal with it the best I can.

Demitasse?

Ech, too long.

I'ma call it..."Tass". Except said all jazzy, so it sounds like "Taaasssssssss!"

I finally found a company out of San Francisco that provides all sorts of information about adapting baby things for parents with disability. I now have way too much information in my head. We pretty much have no choice but to hack our own crib.

Except said all jazzy, so it sounds like "Taaasssssssss!"

With jazz hands?

With jazz hands?

Who are you talking to?

Of course.