burntcopper | new and fun discovery about lungs

On friday I was bitching about being moved to the hotter side of the office.

It... uh. Cos it's hotter, it's drier, and it's also stuffier due to less drafts. (really. previous side has a lot of drafts and a lot of negotiation between the people at the windows freezing to death versus everyone else) So me + cold wasn't having that much fun, and the coughing was happening a bit more due to congestion. Shared jokes with Greggles about the fact that half of our lot have colds, so we were introducing that side to what consumption sounds like.

Only... um. It seems that prolonged hotter and drier and stuffier and congestion means I start having breathing problems. Seriously. By 5pm, it felt like every lungful was pure dust, and Lissy was pushing her inhaler at me, and I was red-eyed and crying, nose streaming by 5:20, with bits of added choking (also glugging water after I breathed to try to combat dust). Took me til about 7pm to get lungs back to normal - one of the few benefits of overcrowded trains, higher humidity index.

Ringing doc tomorrow. And crossing my fingers like hell that it's a lung infection like it turned out to be last year when we worried that I'd developed cough-variant asthma.

But yeah. really. I do not want this to be something that I start having to actively *measure* when going for new jobs.