Coffee anyone ?

[Wehner Homestead]

So you are saying I should go to the doctor? Been coughing for over a month. Started with a cold, seemed to get over that in a couple of weeks then the cough came back. Been taking Mucinex for a month. The cough doesn't happen at night when I am asleep but get vertical and it comes and goes all day.

It definitely wouldn’t hurt to have your lungs listened to and maybe even an X-ray done. It’s possible that it’s just lingering too though.

 

[RollingAcres]

So you are saying I should go to the doctor? Been coughing for over a month. Started with a cold, seemed to get over that in a couple of weeks then the cough came back. Been taking Mucinex for a month. The cough doesn't happen at night when I am asleep but get vertical and it comes and goes all day.

She's the nurse, so you SHOULD listen to her.

 

[Alaskan]

So you are saying I should go to the doctor? Been coughing for over a month. Started with a cold, seemed to get over that in a couple of weeks then the cough came back. Been taking Mucinex for a month. The cough doesn't happen at night when I am asleep but get vertical and it comes and goes all day.

sigh.... maybe I should take in the youngest kid... he has had a cough for a month... doesn't wake him up though.

 

[Bruce]

Lingering. Yep definitely hasn't decided to move on Guess I'll go in a bit. Don't know when the "Urgent Care" places are busy but it is 1 PM now so maybe they aren't at lunch or busy?

Sounds very familiar @Alaskan. Tell you what, I'll go and see what they say. Maybe there will be some info I can pass on to help you decide.

 

[Alaskan]

Lingering. Yep definitely hasn't decided to move on Guess I'll go in a bit. Don't know when the "Urgent Care" places are busy but it is 1 PM now so maybe they aren't at lunch or busy?

Sounds very familiar @Alaskan. Tell you what, I'll go and see what they say. Maybe there will be some info I can pass on to help you decide.

sounds great!

 

[Bruce]

How about breakfast? 4 eggs right out of the coop, pan sausage from our pig, toast with wild plum jam that we picked the Chickasaw plums that grow in the fence rows.

What, you didn't make the flour from wheat you grew yourself?

 

[Alaskan]

What, you didn't make the flour from wheat you grew yourself?

Sire does look good! Even with the store bought flour!

 

[Bruce]

Lungs fine. Dr. figures it is/was a bacterial or viral sinus infection. I've not been seeing any green or yellow, just slightly thicker mucous. He didn't figure antibiotics would do much good, apparently the blood vessels up there are so small that not much would get to the site and if it is viral they wouldn't do anything anyway.

Suggested a Netti Pot (*). Other suggestions:
Saline spray - I have some so I can use that though he thinks the Netti Pot is better.
Fluticasone - I've been using it daily for over 2 years which I did mention to him.
Mucinex - As I said before, been sucking those down for several weeks.

* DW bought one several many years ago, never touched it after bringing it in the house. I'll have to figure out where it is since it was purchased when we lived at the old house. I'm sure it is in a box .... somewhere.

 

[Baymule]

I made honeysuckle syrup yesterday. It is supposed to be good for colds, coughs, flu and other respiratory ailments.

https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/honeysuckle-syrup.20429/

 

[Alaskan]

I made the coughing kids drink birch sap.

but hot honey tea works best for them.


Eldest has been taking nyquil and delsym at night and he still wakes up in the middle of the night to cough.