chest cold

have had this annoying chest cold for days. at first it was a nuisance, but the air quality here in town really stinks right now. that means more wheezing and hacking and coughing. i don't want to go running off to the doctor's office, but i know what happened before. i let it continue and had pneumonia. two weeks in bed and so tired i could hardly stand. bad news if that goes this way again. can't coach basketball from the bedroom. so that means i have to endure the poking and prodding and questions at the clinic so that they can tell me what i already know. prednisone for two weeks and then call if the symptoms have not changed enough. do what i must do. do what i must do. do what i must do. takes too much time from work for all this, but better now than later.