Oh for the love of God - tell me this isn't happening . . .

Saturday evening I start to feel really tired.  Sunday morning I wake up with a low-grade fever, unending coughing fits, stuffy, you know the drill.  Same for today - stayed home from work.  So this afternoon is my surgery class for surgery on July 22.  I died all the way through it, and at the end went to see the nurse practitioner wondering if I should have an antibiotic to help it along before surgery.  Now I have to have a chest xray tomorrow, and a possible antibiotic.  She says this is something that could jeopardize my surgery date if we can't get it under control fast.  Didn't need to hear that.  I'm supposed to start opti on Wednesday, flights are booked, I just wanna scream.  But oddly enough, I went out to the pharmacy, had a cold shower when I got back, and I actually am feeling a little more human.  I think she might have scared it out of me.  Nothing can set me back - that's final.  I'm counting on my "strong like bull" Ukrainian genetics to get me through.

 hope you feel better soon
Did your Baba ever make you a cough syrup with brown sugar onions and garlic?  Mine used to all the time when ever I got sick.

No, I never had that!  Pyrohi & cabbage rolls was more my baba's thing - hence the need for WLS!!

 LOL my Baba used to make dozen apon dozen of blueberry pyrohi when we would go for visits or when she lived with us if I had a sore throat her cure was a shot of brandy

you've got 18 days to get better. Think positively, you'll be fine!!! Drink lots of fluids, take your vitamins.

I'm right up on my vitamins, and I have a gallon of OJ by the bed ready to take me through the night.  The bathroom is very close - I'm tired of peeing when I cough.  I actually had to ask for a pee break during the surgery class b/c I was coughing so much.  So unfair!   Oh, and I also got buckleys tablets - they usually work for me, too.  If I could get a decent night's sleep, I think I might be okay.  Gotta get this under control before TBay tells Hamilton I'm sick!!  Worst nightmare.

 breathe!!!!!!

most colds and flus last only 10 days.... drink LOTS of extra fluids... D-tea... i found this tea last time i was sick.. its a PC brand so Lawblaws no frills Zehrs Fortinos(sp) ...

its called feeling restored. it is a blend of lemon echinachea it helped a LOT when I was sick with a BAD cold. 

In this past year I am trying herbal things to kick colds because post op I may be very limited as to what I can take... 

My nephew gave me some tea called Throat Coat - it's also a lemon echinachea, and it really did help my throat, but when I ran out at the surgery class, all coughing hell broke loose.

 actually you won't be that limited cold wise - you just have to read labels a bit more. 

 I have a LOT of medication reactions... so I am preparing for the worst and hoping for the best... currently I cant take liquid anything... thick... cough syrup, liquid tylenol nothing.. it triggers my gag reflex and i will toss chunks

smoothies and stuff like that dont bother me... medications however.. ewwww..