I'm sure, now, that it came from the evening I spent at a friend's home--she and her boyfriend chain smoke. I've been around smoking friends before and nothing happened, but you can get a bronchitis from having your lungs irritated. And I remember the cough starting then, I just didn't make the association until enough people asked me if I smoke!
Meep! Bummer. Even though I'm not contagious (I never even had a fever or anything) it's pretty gross for customers when you're trying to serve them and you're hacking up a lung. I cough into my arm, though, which may alleviate some of their worry when I'm handling their money at Cash!
I'm seeing my GP in November, so if it's not gone by then... maybe she can give me an inhaler or something, to get the meds down into the lungs. But really... it's one of those You Can Do Nuthing scenarios. Drink fluids. I bought some Benalyn.
I used to houseclean for a couple who had probably been smoking since WWII. Her voice was all gravelly, and he would sit there in kitchen with the most disgusting cough. That's what I sound like. A 70 year old chain smoker.
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um.. wow.. she really does look like you in a few decades!
It sounds like it could be pneumonia. Did they x-ray your lungs?
Poor Terri! I hope you feel better soon! Did I ever tell you about the time I had Whooping Cough (one of those diseases that is apparently irradicated, but had a random bout of. Disconcerting).
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