I am at my wit's end. Sick again...bronchitis? asthma? sinusitis? some wierd strain of pneumonia that the vaccine doesn't cover? Take my pick? I'm tired of being sick and tired. Stayed home from school today to sleep and I felt lousy. Slept all afternoon and will have no trouble sleeping tonight. Tomorrow I see the nurse practioner who has been so wonderful in the past re getting me referred, researching, etc. to help me.     My symptoms? hard to breathe, stuffed up nose, zero energy, fatigue, no real appetite, and the violent coughing that lasts for an hour or two despite medication. I have spent the last three nights on the couch so that my head is elevated. Last night I had little coughing. I can only hope that is the case again this evening as I need to have uninterrupted sleep.    I'm also feeling quite depressed, probably due to having this stuff since Labor Day. Just finished my 3rd antibiotic and as far as I can see it hasn't helped as I am just getting worse. Thank Goodness for a three day weekend.     Also found out tonight that our summer trip to Italy, Australia, and Hawaii has been scaled back to only Australia. I am so disappointed. The good thing, though, is that we will be able to stay in a hotel the whole time and not youth hostels. And we will probably have a better experience since we won't be rushing from one country to the next. We had no choice in the decision--flights aren't available due to the 1000's of people going to Australia for WYD. We were lucky to get tickets. Our youth group is the ONLY youth in our entire diocese that got tickets. So we are lucky. And we need to remember that the focus is a pilgrimage, not a vacation. Guess I've been thinking more of the vacation so need to redirect.    To bed with high hopes that I won't have any coughing.