Virginia Is For Families

I’m sick again.  But wasn’t I just laid out with something a few weeks ago?  This is a cold and a chest virus.  A few weeks it was a stomach virus.

The good news is we all should be in good health for the weeks around Christmas.  These bugs have been going around but so has the cold weather.  It seemed a lot like winter out there today even though the temperature was in the forties.

Don’t you hate a cold that gets into your lungs and makes you cough?  I hate coughing.  It keeps me up at night.  I just lay there and wait for that irritation in the throat to grow to a point where I have to get rid of it.  And then I cough and feel better for about a minute.

Cough syrup doesn’t seem to help much.  Sleep helps.  But how do you get to sleep with this cough reflex action keeping you up?

If I could just numb that area in my throat so I would not  feel the irritation growing.   HHmmm.  I tried spraying it with this spray they have for sore throats.  But it wouldn’t reach the right spot.   And then I thought about the small vibrator I use on my legs when I have RLS (Restless Legs Syndrome).

I just lay the vibrator on a pillow next to my chrome domium and turn it on so that it’s pressed up against the spot that brings on the coughing.

And I don’t feel the need to cough.   It is completely overwhelmed by the vibrator.  And then I go to sleep.

But the vibrator keeps going because it’s plugged into the wall and there’s nobody there to turn it off.  And it heats up the pillow.

So this is not good.

Something that has helped me on a more serious level to deal with severe coughing fits at night is the Conair Facial Sauna.  The hot steam does an amazing job of soothing my ravaged air passageways.  Last night, in fact, it saved me once again.   So I am adding it to the list of things to have around the house in case of an emergency.

I wish I could tell you about the facial spa part but that involves reading directions so . . .