Confounded Coughing

I have been plagued by a very icky phlegmy cough since December last year. It varies in intensity but never actually goes away. I suffer most at night when the coughing can get really bad and sometimes I'm even left breathless. And I produce unbelievable amounts of mucus each day. Dearest hub says he suffers along with me because I am so noisy that I wake him and the kids up .. how's that for loving concern!

Even the doctor says that this cough has been going on for way too long. He gave me some really HUGE antibiotics that make me feel extremely lethargic (people who know me understand that the best way to torture me is to make me swallow pills, I can take jabs anytime but not pills). Then I've got this nasal spray thingie that I have to shove up my nose and spray twice a day. It smarts like hell and smells funny to boot. Plus, he sent me for a chest x-ray.

I find going for x-rays a real inconvenience. First of all you have to take off everything you are wearing on the upper half of your body, bra included and put it in a locker. Unfortunately, the clinic's lockers could not be locked. This I do not understand. The lockers actually had locks but no keys (?????). What if someone decided to run off with my clothes or my bra? Am I supposed to wear their ugly gown home then? And all this inconvenience for an x-ray that takes less than 5 seconds. They should really try and come up with a better way to do this. If I wear a bra that has no underwire specially for taking an x-ray would they let me keep it on?

So far my doctor has not called me so I suppose I am not suffering from any chronic lung infection. But then again, he only has my home number and we are not in 70% of the time. But I suppose he could always mail me a letter like my gynae does.

I just hope and pray that this cough goes away soon. I need my beauty sleep! And I need to stay awake at work with all the things that I have to deal with everyday (no I'm not a brain surgeon but I still need to use my brains when I'm at work).