Six days Are More Than Enough

Six Days Are More Than Enough
I finally decided yhat I’d waited long enough. At 230 in thte morning after hackg, coughing, and choking all night I decided it was time that I needed some relief. I was fighting an upper respiratory infection for six days. It began slowly with a runny nose and scratchy throat. It was very much like my normal allergies to leaves and grass. SO I didn’t pay much attention to it, but the last three days, the symptoms have been picking up speed and I have become more miserable
The major symptom has been the coughing and an irritating scratchy throat. The tickle in my throat didn’t allow the cough to take a break. The combination of the two made sleeping most miserable. The sputum that was being expectorated had taken on a dark gray green and I kneew that wasn’t a good sign. I knew the sputum wasn’t coming from my lungs. I didn’t hear the gurgle-gurgle in my lungs. The amount of mucus I was now coughing up was surprising. I finally decided that it was time that I needed to be seen. I wasn’t sleping well. I wasn’t resting at all. I was coughing so much. I was gagging and praying I could breathe better.
I rolled out of bed and climbed into my clothing. I was going to an Emergent care, but it wasn’t open, so I ended up at the hospital. My voice was froggy and hoarse. It was raspy and low pitched, but I was able to tell the workers what was wrong with me.
The doctor on duty examined me and ordered a chest x-ray.. I waited for the results. He came back into my cubicle to say, tere was no pneumonia. He felt that I had managed to latch onto a respiratory infection. I was given a starter dose of zithromax and a prescription to be filled later.
When I returned home, It was as if a dam had burst open. Gobs of the dark mucus came from ssomewhere in my head.