Misery.

I'm not sleeping through at the moment because I wake up every few hours to cough up more phlegm. Steph woke me last night because apparently I was making noises while snuggling her, and made me turn over.

And now my womb is cramping because I've just got my almost-a-month-overdue period.

Oh, yeah. No wonder I've been such a ray of sunshine recently.

This cough makes me wonder if I've got pneumonia (I tend to think in worst-case scenarios. It's why I can't watch horror movies comfortably, or stand heights). If I do, it's rather funny that it's turned up after the pleurisy and costochondrosis, rather than being a cause for the pleurisy, which is usual. (Calm down, self. You can't have pneumonia, or the doctor would have heard it in your lungs on Wednesday. You've just got a bacterial infection of some sort. Go fill that antibiotic prescription.)

At least I know why my ears won't unpop. I probably have an inflammation of the Eustachian tubes, caused by my sore throat or stuffed sinuses or both. The Eustachian tubes are what equalises the pressure in your ears. So hooray for Google, and I can't wait until I can hear properly and not have that faint ringing in my right ear anymore. While we're asking, my normal voice back instead of the whispery or husky thing I've got right now would also be great.

Argh. Time to pack up my bag with all the little pharmaceutical boxes I need to get me through the day and go to work. Hopefully I won't forget to pack my lunch in the end, like I did yesterday.

Yep. Any minute now I'll actually get out of bed.