What a Lousy Couple of Nights
T he past two nights have been quite lousy. My health has been so lousy that I needed to use epinephrine during the night last night. During my previous bouts of COVID, my doctors have assumed that COVID is causing an undesired response in my primary illness. It causes inflammation which causes a response by my mast cells. I already have a life threatening issue with inflammation and mast cells so anything that exasperates this is not a good thing. So, in response, I need to throw medications at both problems. I awoke in the middle of the night after only an hour or two of sleep both last night and the night before last. I was having difficulty breathing both nights. This was clearly a case of needing to clear out my lungs because, as I would do some coughing and huffing, I could get a little bit of phlegm to come up and that always seemed to help my breathing enough to be able to get back to sleep. Last night, however, regardless of some phlegm coming up from my lungs, I was