I've been coughing for half a month without getting better, and I really haven't had the energy to write. After coughing for so long, my head and chest hurt, and I've been drowsy all over. I've already laid out the outline and gone over the plot in my head several times, but I just can't get the words typed.
The cough and cold started on the first day of the first lunar month. By the eighth, things were still manageable. At least I wasn't vomiting.
But from the ninth to the thirteenth, it was genuinely severe. The moment my throat started itching, I would launch into violent coughing. If I hadn't eaten, it was fine, but if I'd eaten something an hour or so before coughing, then I was in trouble. I'd throw up, get hungry, and then be afraid to eat in case I vomited again.
I weighed 140 jin on the first day of the New Year. After half a month, I'd already lost seven jin. Everyone else was eating lavish meals over the holiday, while I actually lost weight. Unbelievable. I'd previously wanted to exercise and lose weight but could never manage it; getting sick managed it for me. The CT scan at the hospital also said there was nothing seriously wrong—just fatty liver and a calcified lesion in the right lobe of my liver.
As for this cough, I've heard that many people have it. They cough for half a month or a month, and there aren't really any effective medicines that work. Put simply, you can only tough it out. I've already had IV fluids and taken medicine, but I still cough violently in the middle of the night.
Including today, I've taken six days off this month. Four of them were because of illness.