No poems just phlegm

For the past two and a half weeks I've been having such fun with a runny nose -- no significant congestion in either chest or head, just plenty of nasal racing.  On Wednesday, I thought I had turned the corner and it was getting better.  On Thursday, I woke up with some laryngitis and some less-than-attractive phlegm and made an appointment with my ENT.  On Friday, it was full-blown laryngitis and things on the hawking up front were grostesque.  People kept asking, "You sound terrible!  Why don't you go home?" I'd answer, "I feel fine.  Why waste a personal day when I don't feel sick?"  On Saturday, it was significantly still laryngitis and, yes, that other stuff was gross.  I visited my ENT who gave me not just antibiotics but told me I had to take Musinex Maximum Strength and a particular nasal spray. He also told me I had to drink eight glasses of water a day. I got the prescription filled and decided to go home and rest up.  I hacked the night away.

This morning, I acquired the remaining two items.  Surprise!  The combo of three things has stopped most of the coughing.  On my way back from the store, I started coughing so hard that tears were running down my face.  Weird and uncomfy and you know I wanted to just try the stuff I'd acquired.  I was not holding out hope for much but I was wrong:  All the crap worked.

I still have laryngitis but I feel well enough to toddle off to the store and acquire a few boxes of tissue.  Good for me!  And if you're not heard from me in the past few days, the laryngitis and sinusitis are why.

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