Cough Drop

{image stolen from google images}

It seems these days everyone has been sick. Not just a fleeting sick, but a lingering sick.

That seems to be what has happened to me. I started getting sick before Valentine's Day and found myself flat in bed over my birthday weekend... March 2! (It  was still a wonderful relaxing birthday.)  I stayed in bed for 5 days straight. I began to wonder if I were depressed. I loved bed and didn't ever want to leave. I could sleep in the day and still sleep all night. I didn't feel depressed so I just stayed there.

It started in my head and went down to my chest where it settled and I developed "Man Voice" and a chronic cough.

Before you get too bored... just know there is a funny point to all this complaining.

This story has a happy ending... Last week I suddenly started feeling SO WELL  and I was so happy and excited.  I still had a lingering cough but gradually it went away as well... Or so I thought. One afternoon of feeling one hundred percent better and not having to cough all day, I was shopping in the produce department when out of no where I heard a woman yelling. I looked around and realized that although we were on opposite sides of the produce department, we were the only 2 people in that part of the store and she was yelling at ME.  So I listened more carefully... "Cauwfff DROP????!!  CAUWFFF DROPPP???!!!"

What the heck? I wasn't coughing... or was I? Apparently I was and I was doing it so much that I was annoying a very generous and cough drop stocked old woman.  

  Humiliated I graciously thanked her...(I had a purse full of cough drops).  I slunk away  head down cautiously moving isle to isle hoping not to run into her again and self consciously coughing in my elbowpit.  Her voice still haunts me... Cauwfff Drop???!!!!