Asthma

[pegkerr]

Besides the fact that I've been barely sleeping lately (due to going off a medication I've been on for years), I've been tormented for the past month and a half or so by a non-productive cough. I went into work today, but I only managed about four hours of sleep last night, which made me feel nauseous, and when I started coughing, I almost put my head down on my desk and cried. Instead I went home. I didn't dare sleep, for fear of not being able to sleep tonight, but I did get in to my clinic and saw a doctor. The verdict: a flare up of asthma. I've had this intermittently. I know what caused it this time, too: they were doing construction in my office a couple of months ago, and I'm sure that my respiratory system got inflamed by all the dust hanging in the air.

I have to pay full price on my medications until I reach my deductible. The inhalers she prescribed cost me $200.00 at the drug store. Ouch.