Post by Sephiroth on Dec 27, 2016 17:40:39 GMT -5
First I thought it was a cold when it started with fevers last Wednesday and was treating it with basic, over the counter cold medicine. Then on Christmas day the fever and coughing got so bad I had to leave the family dinner and rush to an Emergency Care office nearby. They took a few swaps and diagnosed strep throat, gave me a prescription for meds, which I then went and picked up, but suggested that if the coughing persisted the next day I should go back in to get a chest x ray. Which I did. And now, today, they got back to me with the result, and it is not strep-I have pneumonia in my left lung. Starting with the alarm that such a nasty word raises, I am really frustrated because I had already started the strep meds and was hoping by tomorrow the coughing would have calmed down enough to be able to actually sleep-something I have gotten very little of the last few days. But now I need to start a whole new course, and it will take several days to take effect. Compounding my misery, I will now need to go through all the headaches of seeking a week's leave from my job while I wait for this stuff to take effect-a mountain of paperwork to say the least. And then there is the simple fact of having to spend the next few days in misery. Go sit on it 2016.
