Dedicated to everyone who has suffered from sleepless nights because of the cough! :D
Oh this cough and cold!! The worst ailment one can suffer from! It causes noise pollution, sleepless nights and disturbs us and everyone around. :( :(
I have a problem of sleeping less generally. I wake up even if there's a small disturbance, as in my if my phone sends out a small beep I just get up. It's crazy. I wake up a million times in between my sleep and it's very annoying especially when everyone else gets their share of sound beauty sleep every night. I can't say i suffer from Insomnia but I suffer from some distant cousin of it!! :D
Well, so coming back to last night. It was a bad bad evening and the bad carried over to my night as well. I left my office in the 7.15 bus. This is I guess the worst time because there is so much traffic, thus increasing the pollution and noise levels. The travel time is almost 1 hour 45 minutes!! Usually, I just doze off or listen to music or read a book. But yesterday, unfortunately, I was sick plus I had no music to listen to and I wasn't carrying a book to read. I was sick all coughing coughing in the bus. Trust me, I sound like a patient suffering from TB when i cough! :| The same thing happened in the morning and a kind girl sitting next to me offered water to me. So in the evening, to save myself the embarrassment of having to borrow water, I carried my water bottle along without forgetting. :)
So, somehow I was just sitting thinking of random things, humming songs in my head, chewing gum, coughing occasionally, my journey was kinda ok still. But all of a sudden, I felt very nauseated. I was still half hour away from home. I opened the window thinking some fresh air will do me good. But no, all I could breathe in was the dirty hot carbon monoxide. :( Made me feel even worse!! That's when I realized how dirty my favorite Bangalore has become. I love Bangalore but this pollution, this dirt and the environment that we have here now is terrible. There is absolutely no fresh air!! :( What has this city come to?? How am I going to live here?
So with these thoughts in my head, I finally reached home. Had some nice hot soup and decided I was too tired I need to sleep. I needed sleep very badly. I was tired, I was sick so there was no reason to not be able to sleep right? But well, whoever it is who makes plans from up above had something else planned for me. The moment my head hit the pillow, the stupid cough started!! I didn't lose heart, I woke up, rubbed vicks on my throat, drank hot water, inhaled vicks, went back to sleep. It was a hot night so the fan was on in the room. I again started coughing. So I again thought- "Ok, alright, fan is not helping me. I'll just get up one last time put off the fan. open the window and sleep nicely." I did exactly that and went back to sleep.
Little did I know my neighbors ( or whoever it was) would decide to burn something in the middle of the night on this very night when my room window was open :( So well, they did and the smoke was inside my room! I was sick in the first place and to top that the smoke, I guess cough didn't need any more reason to start all over again! So again I got up closed the window, drank some hot water from the flask. I decided no fan, no open window for me. It's ok I can sleep now.
I slept, I guess, for half an hour. And then, the next round of cough started. This was more strong and so bad. The worst cough! I just couldn't sleep. I sat up on my bed giving up all my attempts to sleep!! I just sat up staring into the dark night. I felt empty, all energy drained off! I sat there for I don't know how long and then I guess somehow I dozed off while sitting. This cough is such a cunning thing. It doesn't come that much when I am awake, but the moment I sleep, it just starts. So I just dozed off for I guess two minutes and it started off one more time! :( I gave up all my attempts to sleep after that. Left it to fate. Drank up all the water in the flask. I don't remember the time of the night. I just sat. But guess what? I slept afterwards I don't remember how. Or when and how the cough stopped. I found myself on bed sleeping peacefully till the alarm rang!! :) And thankfully it's a holiday today, so more good news, I didn't have to wake up early in the morning when it rang :P I put it off and went back to get another couple of hours of nice, peaceful sleep.
Oh this cough and cold!! The worst ailment one can suffer from! It causes noise pollution, sleepless nights and disturbs us and everyone around. :( :(
I have a problem of sleeping less generally. I wake up even if there's a small disturbance, as in my if my phone sends out a small beep I just get up. It's crazy. I wake up a million times in between my sleep and it's very annoying especially when everyone else gets their share of sound beauty sleep every night. I can't say i suffer from Insomnia but I suffer from some distant cousin of it!! :D
Well, so coming back to last night. It was a bad bad evening and the bad carried over to my night as well. I left my office in the 7.15 bus. This is I guess the worst time because there is so much traffic, thus increasing the pollution and noise levels. The travel time is almost 1 hour 45 minutes!! Usually, I just doze off or listen to music or read a book. But yesterday, unfortunately, I was sick plus I had no music to listen to and I wasn't carrying a book to read. I was sick all coughing coughing in the bus. Trust me, I sound like a patient suffering from TB when i cough! :| The same thing happened in the morning and a kind girl sitting next to me offered water to me. So in the evening, to save myself the embarrassment of having to borrow water, I carried my water bottle along without forgetting. :)
So, somehow I was just sitting thinking of random things, humming songs in my head, chewing gum, coughing occasionally, my journey was kinda ok still. But all of a sudden, I felt very nauseated. I was still half hour away from home. I opened the window thinking some fresh air will do me good. But no, all I could breathe in was the dirty hot carbon monoxide. :( Made me feel even worse!! That's when I realized how dirty my favorite Bangalore has become. I love Bangalore but this pollution, this dirt and the environment that we have here now is terrible. There is absolutely no fresh air!! :( What has this city come to?? How am I going to live here?
So with these thoughts in my head, I finally reached home. Had some nice hot soup and decided I was too tired I need to sleep. I needed sleep very badly. I was tired, I was sick so there was no reason to not be able to sleep right? But well, whoever it is who makes plans from up above had something else planned for me. The moment my head hit the pillow, the stupid cough started!! I didn't lose heart, I woke up, rubbed vicks on my throat, drank hot water, inhaled vicks, went back to sleep. It was a hot night so the fan was on in the room. I again started coughing. So I again thought- "Ok, alright, fan is not helping me. I'll just get up one last time put off the fan. open the window and sleep nicely." I did exactly that and went back to sleep.
Little did I know my neighbors ( or whoever it was) would decide to burn something in the middle of the night on this very night when my room window was open :( So well, they did and the smoke was inside my room! I was sick in the first place and to top that the smoke, I guess cough didn't need any more reason to start all over again! So again I got up closed the window, drank some hot water from the flask. I decided no fan, no open window for me. It's ok I can sleep now.
I slept, I guess, for half an hour. And then, the next round of cough started. This was more strong and so bad. The worst cough! I just couldn't sleep. I sat up on my bed giving up all my attempts to sleep!! I just sat up staring into the dark night. I felt empty, all energy drained off! I sat there for I don't know how long and then I guess somehow I dozed off while sitting. This cough is such a cunning thing. It doesn't come that much when I am awake, but the moment I sleep, it just starts. So I just dozed off for I guess two minutes and it started off one more time! :( I gave up all my attempts to sleep after that. Left it to fate. Drank up all the water in the flask. I don't remember the time of the night. I just sat. But guess what? I slept afterwards I don't remember how. Or when and how the cough stopped. I found myself on bed sleeping peacefully till the alarm rang!! :) And thankfully it's a holiday today, so more good news, I didn't have to wake up early in the morning when it rang :P I put it off and went back to get another couple of hours of nice, peaceful sleep.
Next time Benadryl cough syrup pi ke sona ;)
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