...And the cough goes on

As many of you know I've had a cough in some shape or form for about the last ten years.  That's annoying.  When it's not bad I often forget that I have it, but when it's bad.....it's real bad.  When I was in high school I had Bronchitis one year pretty bad and ever since then I've had this cough.  I saw my doctor and several specialists and in the end I think they couldn't pin point it on anything, but felt comfortable saying that it was asthma brought on by the Bronchitis.  I was prescribed some inhalers, which at first seemed to be doing the job, but as time went on they really didn't seem to help much and the cough became more of a seasonal thing.  It hadn't been bugging me too much in the last few years, but this cold I had brought it back full force.  I fought off the runny nose, the watery eyes, the sneezing, the headaches and the sinus pressure, but this stupid cough remains.  Pretty good acquaintances are we, this cough and I.  So, at the urging of my loving, but annoyed to death by my constant hacking and choking wife, I made a doctor's appointment.  It was a doctor I hadn't seen before, but I gave her the history and what not and told her about the cold but that this cough I just couldn't shake.  Her diagnosis:  "I think you have a cold...probably you can just treat the cough with Robitussin."  LOL!! There you have it folks.  I should have been a doctor.  Honestly, the cough is a lot better than it was a few days ago, but I should have taken the twenty dollars I used for that office visit and took Kennedy to lunch instead.  Oh well.

The snow is melting off here and we can see the grass more with each passing day with temps into the 40 degree range.  I can see the old garden beds poking through, and can't wait to get planting some things.  I did get some leek seeds planted in a flat in the house just the other day.  Historically I've not yet had a whole lot of luck growing my own transplants, but we'll see how this year treats me.  I've been seeing more and more birds around here lately which is a welcome sign that spring is on it's way sooner or later. 

In egg related news I was looking at my records last night and we've had over three hundred eggs laid so far in the month of February!  I was impressed.  We've sold just about all the eggs we can get so we may be increasing the flock size next year.