Foggy Brain

I bought Actifed cough meds yesterday because, you guess it, I am sick again. Sigh. I contracted cough germs from this guy in the delegation. I told him many times over to wear proper clothing because of the weather, but he still didnt listen and got sick and got me sick because we went to the same meetings all the time.

So anyway, I took one dosage of actifed around 5 pm yesterday at the restaurant. By 6pm in the car I was sleeping soundly. When we got home, my boss emailed if I want to go to our fund raising event at Le Meridien but I had to pass that one. I had to email someone in the USA for mom, and slept next to my laptop waiting for the reply. Later on, mom dictated her reply in Bahasa Indonesia and I, half asleep, translated it to English. I couldnt even understand what she was saying in Bahasa Indonesia, so I put a disclaimer in that email about taking meds.

This morning I woke up late and still groggy, I had to drag myself to shower and later on to work. What little left of my intelligence was practically gone by the time I got to the office. At one point, I looked for my cellphone while talking on the said cellphone! The guys were laughing at me, saying it's all due to age factor, not only because of the meds. Right.

If anything, these are the moral of the story: first, I get easily contracted with cold and once I started to cough it takes ages to cure. Second, a low dosage of sleeping meds will knock me out cold for a long time.

So tonight, I didnt take any cough meds, only my antibiotics. Have lots to do in the morning. On the positive side, my throat feels a bit better than last night.