damn I'm sick of hearing myself whine about being sick.

I decided to try to tough it out without cold medicine last night, and didn't get much sleep.  I thought cough medicine would be all I'd need, because this cough has actually been getting more insistent during the last day or two, but the medicine didn't seem to touch the cough. 

( For the strong of stomach only, I figured out why the cough medicine wasn't working... )

So, I still didn't get any more sleep today, but maybe I'll be able to tonight if I can adapt.  Contac didn't dry up my nose the other day; is Daquil better, do you think?

As an aside, usually when I'm sick I avoid dairy products as much as I can because I know the tendency is to make everything like this worse (and last night I had cheese in my dinner *eyeroll*).  The other day Eor made some comment about how I was going to stop at Starbuck's for a coffee while I was on my way to get the car out of the garage after the snow ban.

"Drink coffee, with this nose?"  I sez.

"If you used your nose," he popped back, "It's not called drinking."

I'm wondering how it is that I'm living wrong, because baseline "well" for me seems to include a slight post-nasal-drip, frequent slightly sore throats and a cough whenever I get the slightest bit chilly.  I've never been able to sleep with my head uncovered because my nose/throat dry out and all of the above gets accentuated.  Does my body have some basic malfunction?

ETA: Those of you with memories are probably saying, "But yeah, didn't you learn this last year when you had sinusitis?" To which I can only reply, "When you have a cough your instinct is always to take cough medicine."

Also, my stomach muscles are strained by it all. *pout, whine*