I will do that John, I have been away for the last week or so in Dinosaur world (Drumheller, Alberta) with my folks and my daughter all the while fighting my first real cold ever since diagnosis (so pretty lucky overall) so I haven't been on the site much. The few little posts I have done were on my phone and that gets pretty tedious - especially for someone as long winded as me
. I'm starting to get better and the severe phlegm attack seems to be subsiding so I'll get back on the proverbial horse. I was actually starting to feel better at the end of last week - it was mostly in my head and throat, and then I went for my first mountain bike ride since my last flare and the very next day I got the killer cough. I'm pretty sure I pushed it down there by going a little extra hard... but man did it feel good - the wind in my face, going down some of the winding technical stuff, not having to get off and walk any of the uphills. It's amazing how little tastes of the 'old normal' give you the fighting spirt to keep moving forward and loving life. I'll look you up on the dailymile.
Kelly, yeah, nice to see you back here!!!!
vdub, codiene, yeah baby... I have morphine too because the codiene didn't touch things after a while. I only use it once in a blue moon, but man it's good to have in a pinch. I also just discovered an old Eastern European way of helping a cough go away - or become less troublesome and it's quite a clean method and worked like a charm for me this last week. Soak a piece of wool (it's gotta be wool) with grappa - it's gotta be grappa (an Italian spirit made from distilled grape stem) and put it on your chest (I would just put it under my pijamas and sleep with it). I know it sounds like hocus pocus, but it took a cough that was severely painful and consistent and almost took it away while I had the stuff on my chest and made it mild afterwards. Can't hurt.
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