bright side: i don't have the flu-thing everyone else has got.

[fox]

(there does seem to be a spectacularly nasty flu going around oxford -- i haven't heard anything about birds, but the people who've been sick have been really sick, which is bad enough whether birds are involved or not -- and i don't have it.  thank god.  have actually not had the flu since the last time i got a flu shot, and i'm glaaad.)

i don't understand.  i take cold medicine; i go to bed.  i sleep, but not well.  i wake up with my head congested like the 14th street bridge at 9am.  i take more cold medicine; i go back to bed.  i sleep much more peacefully (though still with weird dreams).

why, please, does taking the cold medicine not work the first time?  should i take two doses of it before i go to bed in the first place?  that seems excessive, but i like breathing.  memo to my sinuses:  what is it you want?  you can have it!  just, please, let me sleep at night, instead of from 9 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon.

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[darthfox.livejournal.com]

well, there's no antihistamine, but i take your point about not doubling the dose -- two doses of the decongestant would dry me up like a raisin anyway. (this is a decongestant/expectorant only type deal.) unfortunately, saline nose spray has never helped me much, nor stacking the pillows either -- i don't breathe much better when i'm asleep sitting up, and all i want to do is lie down, even though lying down makes me feel rotten. but: this isn't that bad. that's when i get the nasty sinus infection with cough, which at the moment i don't have; the drainage is 99% clear and for about two minutes each morning there's a little bit of yellow. nothing, i suggest, to worry about right now.

except this paper i'm meant to be working on.