October 16, 2003

wimpy cough

The cold I've been whining about is still here, outstaying its welcome by quite a few days. Still, it's had the courtesy to give me a present.

I have a little cough.

  • Some people who have a cold say Cough! Cough!

  • Other people say COUGH!!!! COUGH!!!


    • My mom has a cough like the second one. I tell her it sounds like she has tuberculosis and that she might want to get it looked at by a doctor. Someone other than my father, although Dr.Dad is a genius, he's also an eye specialist.

    She said she's had chest x-rays and had a physical and everything, and they told her it's just allergies.

    So why don't you take something for your allergies, PTAMom?! You sound like a bronchitis factory.

    I don't know why. I had some prescribed, but I just really couldn't be bothered.

    It irritates the hell out of me. She coughs like a person who is spitting up pieces of lung. Happily she doesn't show them around.

  • I have a cough like this: (cough cough) with an occasional "cough" thrown in just to mix it up

    • Now what the hell good is a tiny cough like that? It doesn't spread itself far and wide (the infection I mean). Does it only want to infect people in my home? Does it want to reach my dogs? Lord knows they're hard to convince to stick their noses in gross places or to eat disgusting things. Yes, that must surely be it. The cold wants to reach my dogs who will then pass it on to the flowers and bunnies and falling leaves.

    How romantic. (cough cough)

    Posted by dotty at October 16, 2003 10:30 PM