law of total madness - personal stuff

forty five: i'm sick

so i've been sick for over a week now and i literally hate it. i had to leave school early and call out of work on tuesday, and i thought i was fine for wednesday. i was wrong. i'm not fine. last night at work, i had to go away from the cash register i was at, so i could get some water. i was choking on air, pretty much. and my manager had to finish ringing up the customer's groceries for me. and he made me buy a water bottle to keep with me, even though we're not allowed to have them at our registers. i filled it up again about eight times, each time after a coughing fit. thankfully, after the first one, i didn't have customers at my register when the others occurred. i have work again tonight and my cough has proceeded to get worse and i know that my mom will not let me call out, and even if she does, she'll make me feel very bad for it. she thinks i'm fine and she won't even take me to the doctor. i haven't been able to sleep in over a week now, even after taking two nyquil capsules a night. i was reading about what i could have, after feeling like this is more than just a common cold, and after i've gotten many comments from friends and coworkers about what it could be, and i think i might have bronchitis. it's quite contagious and i think three of my friends have had it within the past few weeks. i looked at the symptoms and i've had all of them throughout the week. now, i don't know what to do. i was thinking about calling my aunt, who works at a doctor's office, or if i should wait until my mom comes home from grocery shopping. i'm so stressed about this for no reason and sorry for bothering you all with this kind of very useless information.

-lynnie