Misery.

[changeling]

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.

Comments

[watersusurrus.livejournal.com]

Poor schnuggy!

You were breathing in loudly and then humming when you breathed out. Crazy.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I was humming? That's just bizarre!

[watersusurrus.livejournal.com]

Yes, very annoying! It was very weird! It's why I ended up shouting, I thought you were awake but couldn't hear me over the humming.

[chennpug.livejournal.com]

!!! Ringing in the ears is not very good. There are some differing opinions in the world of online medical resources, but a good portion of them say that constant ear-ringing is a sign of tearing of the eardrum. The other side says it's just the tremendous pressure, but either way - antibiotics pronto, young missy!

(From my experience, my ear didn't start ringing until after the eardrum exploded, but perhaps I didn't notice the ringing before that because of the excruciating pain, so...take from that what you will. The good news is that eardrums are pretty capable of fixing themselves up once the inflammation is gone, it just takes a little while depending on the severity.)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

It's only slightly ringing ... kinda like a quiet, high-pitched whine, really.

I promise to start my antibiotics tomorrow. If I find the cursèd prescription.

[erl-queen.livejournal.com]

Hey there, last night I finally sent a reply (a very long reply) to your question about oracles, and today I found out that most of my emails haven't been going through to people. So if you didn't get the email, let me know and I'll resend from a different address. :)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I got it just fine, thanks. I've been mulling. It's very useful, especially as you and Sannion have such different techniques!