Being Sick

For anyone that's called me in the past 6 weeks you know that since I finished my 1/2 marathon I have been sick. It started the evening of the marathon with a scratchy voice, I sounded like I had been smoking a pack a day for about 25 years and I quickly attributed it to over use. I mean, I had never run a 1/2 marathon before. Of course I was going to have some side affects. A week later I was still scratchy and a nice cough had developed. Then we went to Alaska and I thought I just needed some more sleep and was excited to get that on vacation. It didn't help. I was sleeping between 8-10 hours a night, not running, keeping things low- key, and yet still I was congested, coughing, unable to sleep through the night. After coming home from Maine last weekend I decided enough was enough. I am tired of coughing and blowing and the deep scratchy voice I have developed. I went into the doc. She gave me a higher version of Sudafed, told me to take it twice a day for two days and if I didn't get better she would give me amoxicillin. I took the Sudafed for two days, proceeded to get worse and now have started taking my daily dose of Amoxicillin. Do you know what a daily dose of Amoxicillin is these days? It's two pills three times a day!!! DUDE, that's a lot of meds. This had better work!