1/2 day today

Yesterday afternoon my sinus issue started to turn into a bronchial issue - I started that really deep heavy cough like you hear with bronchitis. Chris thought I was going to heave as I was coughing that hard. As I don't feel the gurgling in the lungs like you get with bronchitis and Chris didn't hear anything when he listened to my lungs with his stethoscope (that's another story) I'm pretty sure I don't have it but I'm probably right on the edge - I'm also not coughing anything up (its a nice dry hack) and I'm also not running a fever. I think my cough is more related to the sinus drainage I've got going on and the major irritation my trachea has right now. Oh and I started loosing my voice.

I do have to say that being a life long cougher I've got pretty good control over the cough reflex. To the point that my body is telling me to cough but I can ignore it so I'm coughing much less.

But the real reason I'm taking a 1/2 day is because of the 200 storms that came thru last night (okay minor exaggeration but it never stopped raining between about 9 pm and 7 am this morning). The lightning shows were awesome and it felt like they were going off every hour but they are really hard to sleep thru. We did get hail at one point in time as I was listening to it ping off the window. I got up to check the house during one of the early hard rain falls closing a couple windows. Chris got up while it was hailing to make sure the storm wasn't getting worse and to close the rest of the windows. As it was they are reporting this morning that 4 tornadoes touched down south of the city more by Bloomington. Add that to the one that touched down in the north east corner of the city on Friday and its been a busy week.

Because of the rough night I was so tired this morning I never heard the alarms go off. Chris finally got me up. I stood up but was so dizzy I had to sit right back down. I laid back down and fell right back asleep. And didn't wake up until Chris called me at 9 to see how I was doing. And talk about weird dreams I was having.

So except for a really sore throat, almost no voice and continuing cough I feel alot better than 6am. And since I'm already late for work I might as well turn it into a 1/2 day and get some stuff done around here.

I really hate sinus issues.