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Tuesday 26th 57F/14C [7.10] Promised to be warmer still at 25C/77F this afternoon. Though a more cloudy day.
Up at 5am after an awful night. Uncomfortable, coughing, sneezing and aching. Nauseous with heartburn when I lay on my side. Pain across my stomach. Every time I needed the fire bucket. Which was roughly twice an hour. I told you I haven't been well.
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Up at 6.20 after a fairly quiet night. Woke to coughing and discomfort. Tried adding cushions under my pillow. Hopeless! Had breakfast and my nose started streaming. So now I'm a mixer tap with noisy plumbing! No sign of bleeding from the offending nostril. So treatment was probably worth the agony it caused me.
14.20 72F/22C. Explosive coughs and sneezes have continued. Often resulting in dizziness. This is a known symptom. Where low blood pressure is exacerbated by changing pressure in the lungs. I feel awful!
I enjoyed the dinner of sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes and mashed potato. Made by my ever-patient baby sitter. Two minutes later it was all resting in the bottom of a bucket. I spent the rest of the evening recovering from severe vertigo. Coughing wetly and painfully and trying not to sneeze. Bed at 10.30. No escape!
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Up at 5.45am after a dreadful night. I propped myself upright in bed from 4-5am. To stop the incessant coughing of burning wetness in my chest. It wasn't comfortable with only a single pillow for padding.
I lay down again but it started all over again. So I soon got up. I have been panting breathlessly all night. I haven't dared to remove the nose plug yet. What if it starts gushing at the weekend?
There is a major outbreak of what google Lens is calling a stinging nettle. At first I thought it was a kind of mint but now believe it may be a dead nettle. None have flowered yet.
13.30 Sunny and breezy. No lunch. The nose slug self ejected during an involuntary sneeze. I continue to cough repeatedly. Which hurts and makes me feel dizzy.
17.00 I had a marmalade roll and cup of tea.
19.00 I couldn't face dinner. I went back to bed. Slumped and propped up against the pillow. A spoonful of honey seemed to ease the coughing.
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