Me: "I've had a sore throat and dry cough for five days, and it won't go away with cough medicine.
"
Doctor: "It is strep throat, here is a prescription for antibiotics to take care of it."
Lungs: "Fuck you!! We're going to fill up with mucous and make you cough it out!!!"
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I have lost over a third of my next paycheque and my savings are low already. At least all of that futile medical care was free, even the prescription. It's like every day it gets worse. Looking back I really shouldn't have called in sick on Thursday and Friday because that was nothing. Saturday morning I woke up at 3am and felt like I was going to die; Sunday night I couldn't get to sleep for two hours because the coughing kept waking me up, and now I've got a
really deep (like stomach deep) cough and pain. It just doesn't fucking end.
And the amoxicillin is giving me diarrhea already so I've also got
that to look forward to.
Edit: I just coughed a large glob of phlegm onto my bedroom floor. I instinctively grabbed the
mesh garbage can to cough it out into. Lot of good that did! Then I had some of our ammonia-semen cough medicine and in 90 minutes I get to swallow a pill that's as big as a chiclet. Yay!
Every time I burp (which is surprisingly often), it tastes like bathroom cleaner!!