I am getting really, really sick of this cough. It started out as a quiet little dry thing back several days before we left the Netherlands (so nearly two weeks ago now), but it’s still going, now louder and with exciting added phlegm. It’s mostly not horrible in the day time (though today it has been annoying), but whenever I lay down at night it starts up again and wakes me up periodically all night. Cough syrup can’t touch this beast; an extra pillow helped at first but I’m now up to three and still coughing. There doesn’t seem to be anything else wrong; my theory is that it’s a vicious circle, that my throat is irritated from all this coughing and I’m couching because my throat is irritated.
And tomorrow I have to go to work, after five days off, so it would really halp to have enough sleep. I would like this cough to stop right now please.