Post-mortem on sinus infection
I saw my doctor on Saturday the 14th and demanded antibiotics. Those worked to knock out the green goo within 48 hours, but then I went dancing on Monday night, and was coughing and sputtering yellow crap all over again for the next two days afterwards. Since about Thursday June 19th, I’ve started to feel better again. I finished all my antibiotics on the 18th. About once a day, I’ll have a coughing fit, where I’ll spit up yellow gunk and sometimes some blood (from irritated throat due to the coughing fit), but for the most part, I feel much better. The coughing fits come either first thing in the morning, or at the end of the day as I’m preparing for bed. I’m told this can last for up to a month post sinus infection. It’s just been so long since I’ve dealt with these, that I’ve forgotten their behaviour. Up until 1992, I used to get sinus infections several times a year, because I lived with parents or other people who smoked a lot, and my first year working in a daycare didn’t help, either. After that time, I used to get an annual sinus infection - a real doozy - and this lasted until I moved to California, and my body began to realise it was not in such a horrid enviornment anymore, and adjusted. I stopped getting sinus infections by 1999 or 2000 if I recall correctly.
Anyway, so there you have it. I’m on the mend. But I cannot guarantee I’ll stay mended, being that I’m working with children again. I just have to develop an immunity to their germs again is all.