Cough, cough

I've noticed that my cough, congestion, fatigue and other symptoms are quite a bit better when I'm away from the house. They're worst when I'm in the bedroom or office--probably the places with the highest ratio of dust mites.

Now that I've been sorting through my closet and piles of old clothes for the evening, it's gotten quite a bit worse.

It makes me wonder how much of this is illness and how much is allergies, or if the illness makes me more vulnerable to the allergies.

I'd take some Benadryl to see if it helped, but I am a bit afraid to because I don't know whether it contributed to my throat-swelling the other day or not. Dilemmas, dilemmas.