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the persistence of phlegm
Tuesday, December 30 2025
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It was a cold day, the kind where one wanted to huddle up near a woodstove. I was noticing that, while my illness from a couple weeks ago was mostly gone, I was still hacking up plugs of phlegm on a regular basis. This has been a common pattern with respiratory infections for the past five or six years (including my two known bouts with covid). But today the phlegm production seemed increased and there was even an annoying tickle in my lungs at times. I took a recreational 120 mg dose of pseudoephrine in hopes it would dry out my passages, but its main effect was to make me feel a little uneasy in my guts.
I tried to take Charlotte for a walk, but she went back inside before we even made it to the Farm Road.
I then proceeded to make one of my low-effort chilis. But because there was some not-too-fresh spinach and asparagus languishing in the refrigerator, I decided to add spinach to the chili and cook the asparagus separately in the toaster oven after drizzling it with olive oil, sat, pepper, and garlic powder. At the time Gretchen was off at her guitar lesson and than pilates, and by the time she came home this food needed to be reheated. But Gretchen seemed to really like it.
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