I want to say that I woke up yesterday morning after a night of bad sleep, but it would be more accurate to say that I woke up after a night of very little sleep due to coughing because of a chest infection.

Andrew went to our pharmacy as soon as it was just about to open as I had run out of my Salamol inhaler and needed it. He got it and came back quickly. After using it, my breathing was much better, but I still reckoned that I needed to see a GP. So, it being Saturday morning and our regular GP being closed, we rang the out-of-hours service and got an appointment for 11:15. This meant we had to get to Port Laoise by then. Andrew then had to go to the pharmacy again so that I could take a Covid-19 antigen test. So that was his pharmacy visit number 2.

The antigen test returned negative, so we were clear to head on to the out-of-hours GP clinic. The easiest way to get there was to walk to the bus stop, get on the airport bus to Port Laois, get off at the hospital, and walk down the road to the out-of-hours GP clinic.

We arrived ahead of time, entered, sat down, and then I was called by the triage nurse to have my stats checked. Pulse of 94, SpO₂ of 94, too, my temperature was 35.9ºC. She didn’t check my blood pressure, but I was pretty certain it would have been high, as usual, as well.

I went back out to wait for the GP to call me in. Within a couple of minutes, he called me, and I entered his consultation room. I explained what was going on. He listened to my chest and said that there was a bit of a wheeze, so he prescribed

1. Amoclav 500mg/125mg one tablet, three times a day, spaced evenly through the day for seven days.
2. Deltacortril Enteric 5mg, six tablets, once a day with or after food for five days.

On our return to Monasterevin, we visited the pharmacy again, the third time for Andrew in one day, to have the prescription dispensed. Then we returned home. Yesterday, I had two of the Amoclave tablets and one of the Deltacotril enteric doses as well.

I am sure that these medications will help the chest infection go away. Today, I managed to walk to the main street of Monasterevin to visit a cafe for lunch. On my walk back, Andrew nipped into the local SuperValu, and I waited in the sun on a public bench. It was lovely being out in the sun in shorts and a T-shirt. Now, I am sitting back at home in the sitting room while Andrew naps upstairs in his office. This evening I will take the second Amoclav tablet for today with the Deltacortril enteric dose for today with some toast and jam.