Sick and tired of being sick and tired

I finally went to the doctor Monday, after four weeks of coughing. I haven’t been able to run, and sometimes the cough is almost asthmatic — I can’t catch my breath.

But I’m stubborn and stupid and I hate to go to the doctor when it appears to be just a cold.

Instead, I’ve spent more than four weeks getting little sleep and I broke.

So off to the doctor I went to be prescribed a steroid and codeine cough syup — which, as I said on Twitter yesterday, makes me feel like a junkie homerun hitter. So, now my head hurts, I’m tired and I still have another four or five papers to grade tonight (plus pulling together a lesson plan and starting a column).

If you don’t see more blog entries today, you’ll know why.

Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet