Got a Scare

Last year when I got home from Florida, I immediately developed a cold that had me coughing something terrible.  It was so bad one night that I thought I might pass out because there was no let-up between bouts of coughing and I was fast losing my ability to breathe in.  All did turn out okay but I'm wondering now if the episode I had today has anything with that one.

When I cough now, it seems to be with little air so the cough is totally ineffective.  This is much more severe than what it was a year ago.  I seem to have spasms of this ineffective coughing every so often now but I did have one today that could have lasted 10 minutes.  Talk about scary!!  Shelley and John were in their bathroom bathing the dogs and I knew they were too far away to hear me if I called them.  I also have little or no voice.  I was afraid I might pass out and fall if I tried to go into where they were and, thank heavens, John came out so I asked him to get Shelley.  She came right out and gave me the puffer to use and it calmed the coughing down.

I'm quite worried this is something serious that will keep my doctor darned busy when I get home and I'll be spending the whole summer seeing one specialist after another.  I'm worried about having one of those prolonged coughing spells on the plane and embarrassing myself.  I'm worried about my clogged ears and what will happen when the plane descends.  I'm worried about this cough that is stranger than any I've had before...I can't blow my nose!  Apparently you need more lung capacity than I have at the moment to blow my nose.

But, yet, I seem to be able to take in large volumes of air when I breathe in.  I just don't have what it takes to expel that air hard and fast enough to clear my throat.

Shelley put me on an antibiotic today so we'll see what effect it will have.  I'm hoping for miracles but worrying that any miracle is going to take a long, long time.