My cough – which is still hanging on despite my best efforts – has reached an non-productive stage. In medical terms, it means that I’m not bringing anything up – but it kinda sounds lazy to me.<\/p>\n
“Get to work, you cough! Quit your lolly-gagging!”<\/p>\n
Granted, it’s been busy this week and could use a break – but why not just be done instead of coming into work and then just sitting there?<\/p>\n
“Take a vacation, cough, you’ve earned it,”<\/p>\n
– ——<\/p>\n
Jim suggested that I take some vitamin C and some echinacea. The vitamin C was easy – we had that in pill form – but didn’t have any echinacea. But, he had some growing in his garden – it’s also know as the coneflower. I asked if I could just eat a blossom and he looked at me oddly. We debated this for a bit and it boiled down to:<\/p>\n
1. I figured fresher was better
\n2. Jim feared that I would get started and would eat my way through his garden like a goat. Also, he decided that the flower was the size of a muffin. Which didn’t seem like a problem to me.<\/p>\n
In the end, he agreed to let me eat a few leaves and a few petals.<\/p>\n
They kinda tasted like grass and I don’t know that I felt any different. He also pointed out that when his dogs eat grass, they throw up. I didn’t, but maybe I didn’t eat enough. I mean, not enough to feel any difference. The goal was NOT to throw up.
\n– ————<\/p>\n
This evening, I’m rocking the cough drops and noticed the wrapper has the word Suppressant on it. Which is not unusual since that’s its… you know… job.<\/p>\n
Except that the wrapper was wrinkled and I instead saw, Suppressa.<\/p>\n
Which sounds like a Disney villain. Or a dominatrix.<\/p>\n
“You’ve been a very naughty cough. Mistress Suppressa needs to put you in you place,”<\/p>\n
[insert the crack of a whip]<\/p>\n
And what this is REALLY telling me – and I hope that you agree – is that I very clearly need to get more rest.<\/p>\n
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