I scared my doctor again

After coughing up an entirely new color last night, I decided i would go to the doc this morning. Rather than calling for an appt, I just went, figuring i could sit there and feel crappy till they had time for me or sit at home and feel just as crappy.

I was expecting the usual "course of Prednisone and an antibiotic from column B". My doctor's partner wasn't quite that blase. She poked and prodded me, listened to me try to breathe, and then ordered a nebulizer treatment, some blood work AND a chest X-ray. Imagine my delight. So I dutifully stumbled all the various places I was supposed to and coughed on a wide variety of medical professionals. Nothing obvious on the X-ray but I got 10 days worth of an antibiotic I've never heard of, a new dosage of prednisone, an increaders dosage on one of my inhalers, a written order for two days off from work (though I may try part of tomorrow if the antibiotics kick in well), and a follow-up appointment in a week.

getting healthy sure is exhausting.

somewhat better

I was actually hungry for dinner. Yay for antibiotics! Of course, for what BCBS is paying for these things ($23 per pill) I ought to be able to fly or at least bend time and space slightly by sometime Thursday afternoon.

One really long bout of very productive coughing this afternoon and now I'm just sore. I can even smell again. Unfortunately, part of what I can smell is ME, because I went to the laundromat - it's only a block - and am now quite exhausted and sweaty now. Ick.

IMd with my manager and I will go in tomorrow morning so that there is someone in the office to take calls while he is at a client's, but I have permission to lie down in the conference room for a bit if I need to (as long as I take the cordless phone) and I can go home in the afternon if I'm wearing out. All in all good - they know I'm really sick but can see I'm trying and I have a way to start to build strength back without either loafing or overextending myself.

But I have to go now, cuz there is a bunny lazing on the floor about two feet away that is badly in need of some cuddling, whether she knows it or not