Chunker's Blog » Cold http://www.chunker.net My name is Chunker...I wear a hat. Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:53:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Colds and Coughs http://www.chunker.net/2010/04/02/colds-and-coughs/ http://www.chunker.net/2010/04/02/colds-and-coughs/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:17:51 +0000 Chunker http://www.chunker.net/?p=401 So for the past week I’ve had a pretty bad cough…to which I blame my runny nose.  Starting at around eighteen years of age…I decided to not take medication for a simple cold or cough.  Why?  Mostly cause when I took stuff like DayQuil or NyQuil they only worked for an hour or two [...]]]> So for the past week I’ve had a pretty bad cough…to which I blame my runny nose.  Starting at around eighteen years of age…I decided to not take medication for a simple cold or cough.  Why?  Mostly cause when I took stuff like DayQuil or NyQuil they only worked for an hour or two if at all.  So anyway….this past week has been bad.  I can’t sleep any longer than a few hours before I start to have a coughing fit and forces me to sit up because if I lay back down I just cough even more.  I decided that it’s been many years since I made the decision to not take medication and to give them another shot.  I try NyQuil first…same basic result…I’m okay for about an hour or two then I start to cough.  I then try to find a maximum strength type cold/flu/cough type medication…cant’ find anything.  Feeling a bit disappointed and a bit desperate I try Tylenol Cold Mult-Symptom and surprise surprise…same result.  I was hoping that either NyQuil or Tylenol’s Cold stuff would knock me out for at least four to five hours but I didn’t feel drowsy at all.  Now I could just take say…double the dose…but I don’t know enough about these medicines to make such a call and I’m too lazy to google it….=)

One good thing did come out of me buying these medications though…I found the aftershave I thought was discontinued…=)

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]]> http://www.chunker.net/2010/04/02/colds-and-coughs/feed/ 0 Bellingham and Washington as a whole Final Thoughts… http://www.chunker.net/2009/05/06/bellingham-and-washington-as-a-whole-final-thoughts/ http://www.chunker.net/2009/05/06/bellingham-and-washington-as-a-whole-final-thoughts/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 00:06:07 +0000 Chunker http://www.chunker.net/?p=277 As I said earlier…Washington is a beautiful state…and Bellingham is a great city.  Trees everywhere, the ghettos not really being ghettos, getting a two bedroom apartment for 600 bucks, Cuban cigars are just an hour’s drive away, Gerbils can be bought and owned…the list goes on.  But being a native of California I really [...]]]> As I said earlier…Washington is a beautiful state…and Bellingham is a great city.  Trees everywhere, the ghettos not really being ghettos, getting a two bedroom apartment for 600 bucks, Cuban cigars are just an hour’s drive away, Gerbils can be bought and owned…the list goes on.  But being a native of California I really didn’t like the weather up there.  Out of the 5 days I was up there…it rained 2 of them.  That’s about 1/3 of the rainy days we get down here in California.  =)  It’s also a bit too cold for my tastes…I like my cold being 60 and my hot being 90….but that’s just me being a spoiled Californian…=)  Would I live in Washington?  Maybe if I got a really good job…but it would take a lot for me to leave my home town.  I love it here too much.

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