Mind of my Stroked Brain

Another disclaimer : this is my own experiences and observations and not a proven science. So take it with a pinch of salt, ample salt actually. ______________________ Every morning, early, I have a very bad cough. I cough all through the day, but the morning ones are particularly bad. Especially as I am not in the elevated position yet and still lying down. It is not a dry cough, it is a very chesty cough. Of course I can not feel anything much, but that is my assessment based on what I hear. I can hear the secretions in the lungs and trachea making all kinds of noises when I cough. Rest of the day, I don't experience it that often and that much. I have tried to correlate it with sleep, tiredness, fever, feed, any other discomfort etc. and I have unable to correlate. One thing I realised recently was that it would be dark when I started coughing, little before 6:00am and stops after about 8:00am - it is also the time I am elevated (come to a sitting position). If it was just the p

Cough is a regular feature of everyday. I get 3 types of cough mainly. 1 - aspiration triggered. Either saliva or some other fluid goes into the wind pipe and triggers the cough. This is easy to make out. I think I can feel the entrance of the wind pipe and the aspiration is a recognisable feeling. But since I don't feel anything after, I just have to wait for the cough reflex to kick in. It takes 2-3 seconds sometimes. But the wait feels like an eternity. There is no doubt here, I have begun to relax knowing that the body's defense is very reliable. Sometimes it it violent - but I am confident that whatever foreign body gets surely expelled. 2 - phlegm/ secretion triggered. These are sneaky buggers. Come without any warning. Since the phlem is secreted within the lungs, it doesn't get the foreign-body treatment. Why sometimes it triggers cough - I don't know. I can make out this one because the expelled secretion - I can feel at the base of the throat after cough. I ke