Its been a week since I had this. I thought that I (I mean my antibody) can handle it without medicine, but I was wrong. I went to the doctor 4 days ago and was given enough antitussive as well as antihistamin, and they helped a bit, yet its 50% still there.
Just for your notification, Wikipedia describes cough as ‘a sign of respiratory tract infections such as the common cold, pneumonia, pertussis, and tuberculosis’. But please, the last two were certainly not the types of my cough, ok? What I have now is what it is called usually as (and I actually saw what the doctor wrote on her note about my cough) an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It does sound terrible when you know what this mean. I have to admit that such terminology really disturbing me days and nights.
This cough now cost me a bit of uneasy to meet with people, just the work I am doing right now. I meet people and clients every day and I need a full fit as well as ‘no cough please?’ kind of situation. To tell you, its so disturbing when you talk to someone and suddenly you have to ‘excuse’ yourself just to cough!
Anyway, when this morning I updated myself with information about swine flu, I was shocked by the fact that the very first swine flu patient is positively hospitalized in Singapore, up on arrival from a long distance trip from USA. The patient spent couple of days in Mexico.
I promised myself to keep me at home during the weekend so that I can heal well. Besides, I can’t let my kids have my cough due to my carelessness.
Guys, I do hope you are having your great days without having what I have now.
Jakarta, end of May 2009.
