Day #9 - Easter Sunday - Coughing Again
Picture taken Easter Sunday April 12th, 2020 - looking much better…comparatively.
Just when I thought I was healed, I woke up coughing around 7:30AM. My lungs felt like shit. The kind of shit you step in and then can’t figure out where the smell is coming from…its just there. Then, once you find the shit on the bottom of your shoe, you can’t figure out how to get it off your shoe. Next, you try hard to kick it off, the clump does fly off, but the shit is still there…yep. Good analogy.
My head still felt woozy, weird, floaty, and not normal. I was able to celebrate Easter Sunday in bed and watch church through Darcy’s laptop. Darcy even got dressed up for the church service that we watched in our room, on the bed, with the dogs, and through a computer screen. It was a really nice experience yet a very strange Easter Sunday.
I stayed in bed all morning and got up around 12PM feeling better - I even did a load of laundry. I sat up on the couch downstairs from around 2pm - 4pm. RECORD. That being said, I fell asleep on the couch from 4-5pm and woke up feeling like absolute shit. That shit again.
I went back upstairs and got in bed. I started coughing on and off so bad. Like bad - bad. We did a hangout with our Orlando, FL friends, Melissa and Drake who experienced my terrible cough. They got me laughing and that was the end. I missed laughing. However, laughing was my demise. Laughing was a big no-no. I coughed from 8:30pm- 10pm straight without much break. I used my inhaler 3 different times within that time frame. I literally couldn’t catch my breath and it sent me into a scary tail spin downwards.
I got so scared I contacted my doctor that night and asked him to call in new Albuterol medicine for my asthma nebulizer machine because the hand inhaler WAS NOT cutting it.
I started to panic and my breathing got worse. I called my mom who did a great job of calming me down. Calming down is the key. I did the inhaler for the last time around 10:15PM and was able to get my lungs to calm down.
I fell asleep around 11:45PM and woke up to running a temperature….AGAIN…ON DAY 10…WTH….
