For the last 10 days or so anyone who has been around me knows I’ve been sick. This is somewhat of a remarkable admission because I never can bring myself to saying I’m not 100%. I don’t like to go to the doctor unless it is absolutely the last resort. I know I don’t want to get the people I love the most sick or my co-workers or anyone I come in contact with. I just have the mindset that this too will pass. Besides that I just can’t seem to come to grips why we have non-life threatening illnesses to begin with. Someday, I hope I get a chance to find out.

I’m not a big religious guy. I do believe in a higher power and I do believe in an after life. After I’m gone, hopefully many years from now, I really hope what happens next is something of a conversation, not so much a judgment day, as opposed to an opportunity to be more of a Q & A with the Holiness about the life I just lived.

One of the first questions I have is what’s up with the cough due to cold shit that I’ve been dealing with the last week? Seriously, the grossness of mucus being stuck inside my body and trying to expectorate it is absolutely no fun. For the life of me, I cannot understand any earthly benefit of this condition. Are you trying to tell me something, your Holiness?

I’m tired of feeling like crap. I finally broke down and went to Urgent Care where I was checked out and in otherwise fantastic condition. I left with a prescription for some cough suppressant with codeine that will help me and my lovely wife sleep without barking like a lonely dog every 5 minutes.

Believe me, I’m not asking for anything worse. I’m having way too much fun living and I want it to stay that way. But, I want to do it cough-free. I want to enjoy the things I enjoy doing without having coughing fits that could wake up the neighborhood. Phlegm is not sexy.

So, I will be heading out to the pharmacy soon to pick up my syrup and continue to ponder this silliness that we could all do without. I wonder if animals get colds? I can’t remember a time one of my dogs coughed or had a runny nose.  I really haven’t had any other pets but I just don’t recall reading anything about pets getting the flu.

Ah, so many life questions.  But, I think our higher power probably has a few of his or her own  about us.  I know I’ve done some really stupid things that certainly beg the question why.  Maybe I’ll never get the chance but I hope someday I will.  Life is sometimes unexplainable but I so badly want it to be.

Excuse me while I go blow my nose and ponder what other questions I’ll have for the Almighty.  When you cough as much as I have this last week, and you feel like you’re about to hack up a lung, you can’t but think up shit like this.