Despite my new passion for daily apple eating, the adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” doesn’t seem to hold true, unless it’s referring to me as the doctor. Despite spending most of my day isolated in an office, I still managed to acquire some sort of respiratory infection that has left me with intermittent fever, fatigue, and a persistent, hacking cough that decides to become particularly virulent between the hours of 1 and 4 AM. My wife insists that I am waking up the neighborhood. I’ve tried various over the counter remedies to stop the hacking. They all prove quite successful in making me feel strange, but none seem to do much about the cough. My favorite discovery was that theobromine, a compound in chocolate, may be effective in controlling cough. I tried some strong dark chocolate. While tasty, this did little for my fits of coughing. Hopefully whatever this is will find I’m not an interesting host and move on soon.