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But first, I need to relieve the suspense: the chest x-ray that I had taken this morning confirmed that the density on the previous chest x-ray was my nipple. Nipples, when engorged, are pretty dense... this is not unusual (for me) but I have been doing this for 40 years.

Now for the bad news: my cold is still rampant, and it still sucks. I was in the scan room today, and I spent most of my time blowing my nose... or coughing.

So now, in addition to the cold symptoms, I have the hurty legs.

And general fatigue, due to all of the above plus the fact that I'm too old to be doing this working-for-a-living shit.

I have been avoiding medications that jack up my blood pressure and those that make me very, very alert... in other words, ones that can effectively affect my symptoms. What I need is a decongestant and codeine. The decongestants jack up the BP, and I get wired with codeine. I don't cough, but I don't sleep, either.

"Just suffer" wasn't on the check list, but it's the only choice left.

The nice thing is, of course, that this will be over in a few more days, and I won't really have to die with it. That makes the assumption that I will live maybe another week... when I will have racked up another list of woes, heh.

Right now I'm going to bed... I need to reset that alarm, it didn't go off until 06:30 this morning, and I had to be at work at 07:00....