So, it's day 10 of my lurgie and I'm just about over it. Went to the doctor to check my lungs- as an asthmatic, this is always a worry, and probably made the main symptom of coughing seem a whole lot worse than the infection actually was. After months of not needing my reliever inhaler, I had to use it every night for the last 7 days. My doctor tells me that's why my resting heart rate is still knocking 90 rather than the usual 55.
So why the provocative title?? The number of people who have made snide comments that my ill health is to do with my pastime. So why am I sick 2 weeks after running a marathon,rather than when I'm running 4x 40 miles a week on the trot in preparation? In reality, probably because I've started living like the 'non-runners'. Not worrying too much about what or when I eat, and drinking more than I should. That together with spending 2 hours each day on the cattle shuttle to London and a day of recirculated air, it's a real mystery that I'd get sick.
So, as that meme I love says.... It's not that diabetes and high blood pressure run in your family, it's that no one runs in your family... :-D
O and I managed to fight this off with my own immune system, despite the asthma, and didn't go drug hunting to the gp but instead told her, if I don't need them, ie, if its not that serious, I don't want them!
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