Today I am stuck here at home. I have been to the doctor earlier to seek relief from the misery of several restless nights because of a very persistent dry cough. After a week of trying every remedy to at least alleviate the agony of coughing uncontrollably … I’ve at last given up and sought the help of a Pulmonologist.

Being ill and sleepless is a pure torture. I just can’t begin to describe the anguish I have to go through every night… it feels like I am coughing my lungs out every 30 seconds, and the bouts of coughing will only stop when my body’s too dead tired to cough (hehehehhe) and it would be at about 3:00 to 4:00 in the morning, I can see the hand of the clock ticking every second away. I will then find refuge in my slumber only to be awakened again by a coughing fit, waking every sleepy nerve in my poor body. It is so frustrating and maddening that I have come to appreciate the value of good health.

And so after seven miserable nights, I finally found myself in front of a very good and kind Doctor who asked me series of questions, to help me out with my affliction. I was a little bit nervous since I am all alone, I am not feeling well and I realized that this would be the first time that I’m seeing a doctor without my mother around. Well the last time I’ve been to a doctor was about a decade ago, because of a very bad migraine. After the question and answer portion and with some poking and prodding with a stethoscope across my body the kind Doctor advised me to obtain an x-ray of my chest, since she's hearing a murmur in my back and she found a lymph node in my neck, which of course made me more panicky, with all the ghastly thoughts running across my mind. (Is it tuberculosis? Lung cancer? L) After some agonizing minutes the x-ray result came out… and the doctor pronounced that I am only suffering from bronchitis and I’ve got an extremely normal lungs. (PRAISE GOD!)

So here I am, taking some rest in front of the PC blogging my hours away. With the help of a strong dose of antibiotics, antitussive and anti-allergy I am in my way to a cough-free existence. Hehehehhehehehe.