i have been sick for a couple of weeks.
every spring i wind up with a nasty case of bronchitis.
this spring is no diff.

except this spring, when my first round of 5-day “power antibiotics” was over, and my illness came right back with a vengeance, i called the doctor. they gave me round #2. but i had to wait the full 10 days until round 1 had worked its way through my system.

so day before yesterday marked day #1 of round #2 of antibiotics.
the antibiotics are so harsh on your system, you have to figure out what combo of foods you need to eat with them in order to keep them down. or they come right back up. my combo? toast, cheese and milk. if I don’t have all 3… yeah. not good.

then, i got cough medicine with codeine. which worked wonders for the first several days i took it. then my body didn’t react to it anymore. so now i have to take so much of it that i gag on the *nasty* yucky stuff when i take it in order to get any results.

well…
i’m to the point now where i’ve coughed just a little bit too long and much… and i bruised (or somehow injured - not exactly sure to what extent, but it hurts like a bitch) my ribs just below my heart. cough… rib pain. breathe too hard, rib pain.

so last night when i woke up in the middle of the night and cough, cough, coughed, i took a concoction of medication that made me wonder if i’d ever wake up. boyfriend reported to me that i hit the pillow and he never heard a peep out of me again the rest of the night.

which raises the question - i’ve been sick for a few weeks.
I took antibiotics which generally… one round is plenty, sometimes even overkill when taken correctly.
now, i’m halfway through round 2 and i’m not convinced this round is working.
i’ve been downing 2000 mg of vitamin c every day on top of every kind of fruit snacks, orange juice and any other fruits that would practically kill a person on vitamin c levels.
since the rib pain started, i’ve gone through a whole bottle of advil and i’m on bottle #2, or i just can’t breathe at all.
i’ve breezed through a bottle of cough syrup with codeine to the point where the mere smell of cherries makes me gag.

all through my childhood I remember going to the doctor with an ear ache or sore throat. always… always…. within a few days’ time we felt better after we got on medication.

now as an adult, i talk to more and more and mooooore people lately who claim the same thing i have going on right now.

wtf is going on here?
things such as minor coughs, colds and ear aches are totally and completely kicking our asses.

medications are being overused.
diseases and ailments are running rampant.
makes me a little scared about where the world is going - knowing how crazy things such as coughs, colds and ear aches can overpower us and render us pretty much non-functional.