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I have somekind of a respiratory problem-thingy. I've been staying in for three days now because I have a coughing severly (and I mean severely) and my head's swollen full of snot and stuff that just keeps on producing. People have suggested that I might have pneumonia because of the severeness of my coughing, but some reading up on the subject indicates that pneumonia is induced by inhaling something or by somekind of an infection. Well, this is my pathology: I developed a fever about a week ago, a really harsh fever around 40C or so, probably because it was well over 30C in the shade outside and I didn't get much cover, so I overheated. To cool myself down I used an ice-cold bottle of vodka, first to cool off my head, then rested it on my chest (vertically on my respiratory tract) for 5-10 minutes. Then, as I started to feel more normal, I just moved it next to myself while I tried to read, so it was near my right ab or the belly or something like that. Finally I'd cooled myself down and felt almost okay. Until the next day when I started to develop a small fever and a cough. A cold followed shortly after and I've been sneezing like a madman ever since. I've had a cold before and this isn't like a normal cold: my throat is swollen, yes, but when I cough the sound actually comes from somewhere near my chest (it's like a small thunder down there). It's become more "open" today after I drank around 3 litres of hot tea, but I'm still confused as to what I have. Otherwise I feel almost okay - except for a small vertigo. So small that it doesn't almost bother me at all. Can a cold be like this? Because I've never had it like this - especially in the middle of the summer. What's more important - as it's not been that warm outside over the last few days and the wind has been quite considerable - should I take on that all-perilous journey to the doctor's (which isn't at all that close) just to hear him tell me to go back home and drink lots of tea, or should I just stay in and drink lots of tea and potentially get better five days sooner? Because if these symptoms do not constitute a more major health risk (such as pneumonia), I'd rather stay in and drink enough tea to kill a small cattle.
