Under the Weather

Last week, I shuttled almost daily from work to HKL. My father-in-law was in one of the open observation ward then since he needed regular monitoring. He was there until we transferred him across to SJMC. As such, we were exposed to other patients and visitors with many kinds of ailments.

By the weekend, I already started to develop a sore throat. And it good worse since then. Put myself on antibiotics finally and now I was coughing out green phlegm and having high temperature.

A couple of nights back, I couldn't even sleep properly due to the cough. And the benadryl I took caused me to wake up in the early hours in a state of high.

Feeling better now that I had been taking the antibiotics for the last few days. No more temperature and joint pains. Anita was also starting to feel lethargic and hopefully her Dad would be discharged soon as she could do with some rest as well.

Finally felt good enough to go out for lunch while Anita sorted out some shopping.

Finished the Course

Since returning from Bangkok, I had been carrying this niggling cough. With the couple of calls last week and the phlegm turning green, I decided to put myself on antibiotics - because I could!

Fast forward 5 days later, the course was done. Cough was still there but much better. I went through the calls without a problem although it threatened to lose my voice last Sunday. And no fever.

The antibiotics course was completed, and I must confess that this was the first time I actually finished the pack. Now I could understand why my patients sometimes stopped half way. Taking medicine, especially antibiotics when they felt well took some doing! And it would be best to go for a single daily dose regimen rather than 3 times.

Will be traveling to Hong Kong on Friday. Hopefully there would be no more cough then, and I could do a bit of chilling out!