This Goddam Cold Is Over!
Finally! The coughing fits were the worst part, (on and off fever, too, though) every couple of hours all the time, that burning kind that doesn’t feel like it’s going to stop. Went through a box and a half of generic NeoCitran, but it didn’t really help with the cough. It just made it easier to get back to sleep after I woke up coughing and proceeded to hack away for five or ten minutes. Once or twice I woke up gasping for breath but not coughing, unable to catch my breath at all. Don’t know what that was about.
Fortunately, I was alone most of the time and didn’t realize at first (and kept forgetting) that I had laryngitis too, on and off. I was housesitting and only remembered when I tried to talk to the resident cats or the TV.
PS, Battlestar Galactica looks awesome on a big screen TV.