She Lives!!!!!!!

And she is drugged!!!!

It seems that they really can't do much for viral bronchitis--it just has to run its course, which should be around 10-14 days.  So what the doctor has been able to do for me is to give me an inhaler to let me get up & down stairs without wheezing and coughing (and which is the current front-runner in the "things that taste bad" category) and to give me a cough medicine that has certainly reduced my coughing...and my hours of coherence.  I'd like to know what is in the stuff, as one little teaspoon and I'm out for most of the next 12 hours.  I guess if they can't make it go away, the next best thing probably is to sleep through an illness, but I am beginning to feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle.  Without the beard, thankfully, but now that you mention it, I think I'll go read up on the side effects..........